The X-Files (1993)
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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The latest season of The X-Files, at times, just made me sad.
You will find hints of The X-Files in the plot thread about the inscrutable girl and the figures from the research facility who seem to be pursuing her.
But it’s also inspired by modern-day references such as The X-Files and Super 8.
…government conspiracies, straight out of The X-Files…
Perhaps the most satisfying is classic Steven Spielberg meets Chris Carter’s “The X-Files”.
…with moments of unseen creatures and strange abductions that would feel right at home in an episode of The X-Files.
…it’s in the sort of way that’s very reminiscent of what happens to humans in Vince Gilligan’s (who, fittingly, did write his fair share of episodes for The X-Files)…
When at its best, it plays like an extended conspiracy episode of “The X-Files”.
Alongside this X-Files-style scenario, Kansas City TV weather presenter Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) begins speaking in a strange, unknown language during a live broadcast.
The film feels trapped in a post-9/11, X-Files, or War of the Worlds era of paranoia.
"The X-Files" may have told us the truth is out there, but "Disclosure Day" asks, "Can we even handle the truth if we knew it?"
Elsewhere, Jane Blakenship (Eve Hewson) is Daniel’s ride-along girlfriend, whose struggle with faith and doubt regarding her partner and lapsed Catholicism in the face of alien gnosis (she’s a former nun) elicits Dana Scully flashbacks.
…which may or may not be the closest thing the Federation has to The X-Files.
…referring to the mysterious, X-Files-like Starfleet department that investigates, for lack of a better term, weird space shit…
…a bit of X-Files hazmat-and-flashlights people to study this paranormal activity…
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Combining detective work and science fiction is nothing new — see “Sugar,” currently; “The X-Files,” classically.
There’s an X-Files meets Peyton Place vibe here, a suburban monster-of-the-week episode that spills out to feature length…
The Mandalorian and Grogu, to put it into X-Files terms, is a “monster of the week” and not a “mytharc” episode…
Now, Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed, Marvel’s Black Panther movies - and hopefully a new iteration of The X Files) brings us vampires as colonialist bloodsuckers with appropriation on the mind.