Articles tagged "david duchovny"

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Californication’s Note-perfect Becca

by Ben Travers

[30.Aug.09] :. Madeleine Martin reflects on a season of Californication that saw her character, Becca Moody, play an essential part in Hank’s slow transition to adulthood.

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The Best Of Dr. Katz

by Marc Calderaro

[15.Jan.09] :. There aren’t many DVDs that can offer such a variety of established comics doing what they do best.

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OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

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Californication: Season Two Premiere

by Alex Romanelli

[26.Sep.08] :. Consider David Duchovny's Hank Moody a hero for the noughties.

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Californication: Season 1

by J.M. Suarez

[21.Aug.08] :. An imperfect show that, much like its protagonist, has the potential to be better than it is.

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The X-Factor: A look back at ‘The X-Files’ greatest monsters

by Connie Ogle [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Jul.08] :. The exhaustive (and frequently exhausting) conspiracies of “The X-Files” - you know, the aliens, the black oil, the nasal implants, the bees, the unmarked helicopters, Agent...

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jul.08] :. In The X-Files: I Want to Believe, ooky canted shots of trundling agents in "FBI"-emblazoned jackets seem like refreshing counterprogramming amid the rumble of the season's action movies.

 

‘X-Files’ More Dated than Daring

by Bill Gibron

[25.Jul.08] :. While some may consider it blasphemous, The X-Files was really nothing more than somber serious science fiction in an era overrun by otherwise slapdash space operatics. It channeled V,...

 

‘X-Files’ stars stay silent on specifics

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Jul.08] :. SAN FRANCISCO - The truth may very well be out there. But David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson aren’t eager to share it. The stars of the long-running Fox Network series “The...

 

It’s no mystery that ‘The X-Files’ is back on the big screen

by Frank Lovece [Newsday (MCT)]

[21.Jul.08] :. It’s a mystery worthy of Fox Mulder’s scrutiny: Why make a theatrical motion picture of that iconic ‘90s TV series “The X-Files” six years after the last original...

 

The X-Files Revelations

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[18.Jul.08] :. Ten years later, Mulder and Scully return to the big screen to face their greatest mystery yet: whether or not they're still relevant in a world that's changed since they've been away.

 

Quantum Hoops

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.May.08] :. One of Quantum Hoops' favorite distractions from actual games is to look at the charmingly nerdy lives of Caltech students.

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

 

Things We Lost in the Fire

by Matt Mazur

[14.Mar.08] :. The film’s treatment of how one navigates the grief process, and the hidden trauma that follows inexplicable loss, is sensitive and thought-provoking.

 

From ‘X’ to sex: Duchovny finds he can have TV and family too

by Karen Heller [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[26.Oct.07] :. For nine years, eight “X-Files” seasons and a big-screen finale to be accurate, David Duchovny played the literally and emotionally buttoned-down and celibate paranormal true believer Fox...

 

A few words with ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’ star Benicio Del Toro

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[22.Oct.07] :. Benicio Del Toro is a man of few words, both on and off the screen. Since making a major impression as the often indecipherable criminal Fred Fenster in 1995’s “The Usual Suspects,”...

 

Things We Lost in the Fire

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. The film intersperses the evolving liaison between Jerry and Audrey with their memories of Brian, suggesting he's their connective tissue even if he is lost.

 

Part 2 - Outsider Influences

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Oct.07] :. TV was at a standstill. On one side -- the status quo. On the other -- the innovators from outside the mainstream. Guess who ended up winning the 'classics’ argument?

 

David Duchovny, unchanged

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[10.Aug.07] :. "I think on some level, even when I wasn't famous, I always felt I was famous. I don't know what that means exactly. I always felt if fame came, it would be for a reason."

 

David Duchovny pokes fun at TV

by Jeff Strickler [Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[9.May.07] :. TV has been very good to David Duchovny. He made his acting debut as a patient on “St. Elsewhere,” had his first recurring role on “Twin Peaks” and, of course, became a...

 

Leiber and Stoller: They are music, and they write the songs

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[24.Apr.07] :. PASADENA, Calif.—You don’t expect that some of the world’s most definitive rock `n’ roll music would come from a couple of white Jewish boys who met when they were just 17....

 

Trust the Man (2005)

by Matt Mazur

[8.Feb.07] :. Trust the Man is definitely enjoyable: as one of the guiltiest of pleasures that you only watch at home during the cold, dark winter, with the curtains drawn, alone and in shame with a whole bag of potato chips.

 

Trust the Man (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Aug.06] :. Trust the Man is primarily focused on women trusting men, because the men find it nearly impossible to trust each other.

 

Queer Duck: The Movie (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[11.Aug.06] :. Queer Duck's gayness cannot be suppressed, not even by a chesty show tune-singing diva or a homophobic evangelist.

 

House of D (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Apr.05] :. The ideal girl wears an orange jumpsuit. At least that's the way Tommy Warshaw remembers it.

 

The X-Files: The Complete Eighth Season

by Jesse Hassenger

[26.Jan.04] :. When a television series grows in depth and complexity, more often than not, there's no going back.

 

Full Frontal (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.02] :. This self-satisfaction makes Full Frontal's gears grind.

 

The X-Files

by Sabadino Parker

[15.May.02] :. The X-Files has long been but a pale reflection of the show it once was.

 

The X-Files

by Martha Kuhlman

After eight years of squishy monsters, labyrinthine conspiracies, and creepy adventures in inner and outer space, the most popular television sci-fi series in recent memory (shut up, trekkies) resorts to the obvious Christian imagery.

 

The X-Files

by Tracy McLoone

Scully took no grief from Mulder; she questioned him, disagreed with him, and stood up to him. With Doggett, however, there is a more traditional he/she split.

 

The X-Files

by Sabadino Parker

As Mulder seeks to confirm a universe of infinite possibilities, Scully attempts to reaffirm her faith in God -- the granddaddy of supernatural phenomena.

 

Return to Me (2000)

by Nitin Govil

The narrative heart of Return to Me beats in rhythm with the tension between surface (what's on the outside) and depth (it's what's inside that counts).

 

Evolution (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It feels like a chain industry has bought up a neighborhood institution. It's inevitable, but it is also, like the mall that looms so prominently in Evolution's imaginative realm, routine and uninspired.

 

Evolution (2001)

by Tobias Peterson

For a film that concerns itself with the increasing complexity of hyper-evolutionary organisms, 'Evolution' is decidedly simplistic and one-dimensional.