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.
The very first movie debuted the moderately clever X-Files-esque notion that if somehow you evade certain doom — such as by getting off an airplane because you have a premonition that it will explode on takeoff, a disaster you then witness from the safety of the terminal — you are only living on borrowed time thence, because you were supposed to die and Joe Black has to keep his books balanced, or something. (In fact, the first movie was indeed spun out of a script originally intended for The X-Files.)
…mezclada con el encanto de sobrenatural inexplicable a lo «Expedientes Secretos X»…
Originally conceived as an episode of Chris Carter’s 1990s’ sci-fi television series The X-Files…
“Final Destination” (2000) delivers Jeffrey Reddick’s original “X-Files” spec script idea in its purest form…
Remember the 2000 original was directed by James Wong and written by Wong and Glen Morgan, both pioneering writers on “The X-Files.”
…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…
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Evy is cast as the skeptic in the vein of Scully from “X-Files” and Justin is her very gullible Fox Mulder.
They are basically the Mulder and Scully of the podcast realm, with Evy the natural skeptic.
…a bit of X-Files hazmat-and-flashlights people to study this paranormal activity…
Combining detective work and science fiction is nothing new — see “Sugar,” currently; “The X-Files,” classically.
…in the vein of The X-Files and Marvel's expanding Cinematic Universe, no one here is ever truly dead…
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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…