This past weekend I was looking for some big screen entertainment, and only a couple movies at the theater had me even remotely interested (of the ones I hadn’t yet seen). Of those two, I chose to see Hancock. I didn’t go into this movie expecting anything but an average moviegoing experience. However, I was [...]
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I made it a point to see The X-Files: I Want to Believe over the weekend, and I can say that I enjoyed it. It felt exactly like an episode from about 1999. This could easily have been a two-part episode from David Duchovny’s last season, aside from the relationship between Scully and Mulder which [...]
by Jon | Tags: Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, reviews, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, x-files
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As I watched Vantage Point the other night, I couldn’t help but be annoyed by the time-shifting of the story in order to convey a sense of the events from different perspectives (vantage points). I felt like the movie would have flowed better had it been presented as a continuous chronological stream.
About 45 minutes to [...]
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