Stories tagged "xfiles"

There may be no going back, as much as we might want to believe otherwise.

What do you do with a successful TV series, seen globally? Come out with a movie of course. But the X Files have already done that in their first movie in 1998. With such success, a continuation is obvious.

The X-Files: I Want To Believe is many things all at once (police procedural, relationship drama, political commentary, horror film, romance), consistently fascinating, if never entirely successful - a movie as Frankenstein's monster.

 Warner Bros' The Dark Knight continues to power drive the North American box office and grossed a whopping $23.2 million Friday and $28.2 million Saturday from 4,366 theaters. That's down only 65% and 41% respectively from its record-smashing debut

You can't keep a good science-fiction mystery solving couple down for long. Mulder and Scully have returned for a new chapter in The X Files saga. X Files refer to those strange cases that remain unsolved, and raise more questions than they yield answers.

The second "X-Files" movie's agenda is right there in its subtitle: "I Want to Believe." Still, the nature of this top-secret project should come as a surprise to most everyone.

But really, this film is about a return to the roles that made them for David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Yeah Mitch Pileggi gets a bone thrown his way too, but that one is more for the fanboys than anything else.

I wanted to believe. But with his big-screen blowup of his great and weird television series “The X-Files,” Chris Carter has turned me into a reluctant skeptic. Baggy, draggy, oddly timed and strangely off the mark, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe�

X-Files: I Want to Believe...

Series creator Chris Carter has announced he wants to make X-Files 3 - on the condition that X-Files: I Want To Believe makes its budget back.