The X Files: Nothing Important Happened Today

Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson Director: Robert Mandel Original UK Premiere: 2001 Dvd Release: 10th June, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Dutch, French, German, Italian Dubbed In: French, German, Italian

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The X-Files was a popular 1990s American science fiction television series created by Chris Carter. The show aired first-run episodes on the FOX network. Premiering in 1993, its ground-breaking success was due mostly to its stars, David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson. Duchovny played Fox Mulder & Anderson played Dana Scully, two FBI agents tasked with investigating paranormal phenomena. With plots spanning alien conspiracy theories & high-level governmental cover-ups, the show mimicked episodic elements found in earlier shows such as The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone & the cult show Twin Peaks. The series became a surprise run-away success, with a devoted following. Fans of show became known as X-Philes or eXcers. The X-Files struck a unique balance between rationalism & mysticism, horror & wonder; its stories were told like police procedurals investigating the paranormal. The series popularized the catch-phrases Trust No One & The Truth Is Out There & fosters a huge fan-based following to this day.

DVD Extras: The X-Files: Nothing Important Happened Today on disc arrives with two three-minute filler featurettes, focusing on Gish’s character & the making of this show. The good news is that this anamorphic widescreen release is the best The X-Files has ever looked in a television format, showing that however dramatically exhausted it might be, the show remains technically impressive.

It has become traditional for The X-Files to kick off each new season with a humourless conspiracy two-parter, & Season 9 is no exception: in The X Files: Nothing Important Happened Today David Duchovny’s Mulder is gone, along with everything in his apartment, & Gillian Anderson’s Scully is mostly at home with her perhaps-telekinetic baby, which leaves the bulk of the investigation to promising new characters Doggett & Reyes .

The A-plot features Lucy Lawless as a water-breathing terminatrix who could be an alien, a government experiment or a mermaid without it making any difference, but too much time is spent on impossible-to-follow subplots about internal FBI politics & everyone’s intricate backstory . Usually, the series gets over these heart-sinking openers & livens up a bit, but this time there’s a feeling that this is the end of the line for a thoroughly battered premise.

Chris Carter joins Gene Roddenberry in the exclusive category of producer-creators who turn in the worst scripts for their own shows, & all the strengths of The X-Files are missing in action here as the engine grinds on empty.

David William Duchovny is an American television & film actor, most famous for playing the character of FBI agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files TV series. Duchovny is a graduate of Princeton University & also holds a Masters degree in English Literature from Yale University. He married actoress Tea Leoni on May 6, 1997. On April 24, 1999 Téa gave birth to a daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny. Their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born June 15, 2002. Before The X-Files, Duchovny had a memorable recurring role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks. He also made several guest appearances in the cult TV satire The Larry Sanders Show, playing himself & he featured memorably in the final episode of the series, performing a parody of Sharon Stones infamous flashing scene from Basic Instinct. He has also been a guest host on Saturday Night Live. Posters Of Full Frontal

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Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress, best known for her role as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files. She was born in Chicago, but lived in London until she was 11 years old. Her family then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended City Middle/High School, a program for gifted students. With her English accent & background, she felt alienated in the surroundings of the American Midwest & developed a reputation as a strong-willed & rebellious teenager. She had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, dyed her hair various colors & was arrested for gluing the locks of the school closed. She found an outlet for her creativity when she started acting in high school & community theatre productions. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990. Following some professional stage work, she broke in to television. In 1993, she had a guest appearance on the collegiate drama Class of 96 on the fledgling Fox Network & auditioned for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files. Posters Of The Truth

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