The X Files: Providence

Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson Director: Robert Mandel Original UK Premiere: 2002 Dvd Release: 16th September, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Dutch, English, 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.

Providence was an NBC television series starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002, for five seasons. The show revolved around Dr Sydney Hansen, who wished to leave her glamorous job in Beverly Hills as a plastic surgeon to rich people, so she could go back to her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island & be with her family. Concetta Tomei & Mike Farrell played her parents & Paula Cale & Seth Peterson played her siblings. Sydneys mother died in the first episode & her appearances to Sydney in spirit form comprised much of the series. The show ended rather abruptly, with a two-parter wedding episode. NBC called this Providences winter finale, fully expecting to bring it back in the spring or autumn of 2003, but these plans were eventually scrapped when some cast members, including Kanakaredes, opted out of producing a sixth season.

DVD Extras: The X-Files: Providence, as with Nothing Important Happened Today, arrives in a great-looking anamorphic widescreen transfer. There are two slight promotional featurettes--three-minute clips/talking heads promos focusing on the episode Providence & actor Cary Elwes' character.

As with earlier releases, The X-Files: Providence splices together two episodes, Provenance & Providence, into a pseudo-movie. Again, the results fall way below the series average as the long-dead alien conspiracy business is flogged, with a lot of running around & ominous rumbling still not adding up to anything like an actual story. FBI agent Neal McDonaugh inexplicably survives a flaming motorcycle crash, leaving behind brass rubbings taken from an alien spaceship, then shows up & tries to murder Scullys psychokinetic baby, who is promptly kidnapped by a UFO cult.

In Part 2, Scully & Reyes fend off enemies & friends within the bureau as they track down the cultists, who are having trouble with a spaceship theyve dug up, & a typical pointless climax has things happen without the characters doing anything to contribute. Even at this late, post-Duchovny stage in the game, The X-Files has turned out some fine stand-alone episodes, but these dreary wallowings go a long way towards explaining why only diehards are still watching. After the child says I made this at the end of the credits, its becoming very hard not to shout well, clean it up then.

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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