Articles tagged "gillian anderson"

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

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!

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

Film Review

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.08] :. As you and Alison wait for Sidney to come around, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People loses its way.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

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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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Film Review

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.

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‘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.

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.

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?

Closure

by Jake Meaney

[18.Sep.07] :. Even if you are a die hard Gillian Anderson fan, you can find better ways to occupy 80 minutes of your time than watching this.

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

by Emma Simmonds

[20.Apr.07] :. Based on Giles Foden’s novel of the same name this bold, visceral cinematic-bodyblow takes a political maelstrom and a maniacal dictator and squeezes them into the mould of a genre-picture.

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Sep.06] :. That Nicholas is also capable of great horrors, specifically in that he lets others act it for him and gets away with it, makes him, at some level, even more troubling than Amin.

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Feb.06] :. The film controverts various theories of writing and reading, production and reception.

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.

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.

The House of Mirth (2000)

by F.L. Carr

Lily's detractors can use her slightest slip-ups -- for instance, smoking a cigarette or gambling at cards -- as weapons against her -- in her set, women's smoking is considered improper and even a sign of promiscuity.