Other than the convoluted mythology and end-of-series missteps, I love pretty much everything about The X Files. There are even a bunch of Robert Patrick episodes I think are pretty cool.
But one of my favorite things about the series lately, now that it’s seven years gone, is watching episodes and realizing just how many now-famous [...]

So, Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly’s new movie, The Box, comes out November 6, and is currently the beneficiary of a crazy-expensive promo campaign. It looks a little more action-oriented than his previous stuff, but otherwise appropriately austere and slightly off-kilter and generally, erm, Kelly-esque. (Disclosure: I thought Donnie Darko was pretty OK, but I [...]

Um … erm … yeah. I don’t know. If good fiction is all about character and story alone, then it’s a non-starter – it’s just clever, Andrew Dice Clay’s bit about Jack & Jill and the two-fifty. After a contemplative shot of Firefly iced tea vodka (I still can’t make up my mind whether it’s [...]

Halloween is on a Saturday this month. That might not mean a lot to kids who are going to be done trick-or-treating by 8 p.m. or adults who define a holiday by its paid-day-off value.
But it means a lot to me. Halloween is my favorite holiday, and as a member of that cabal of adults [...]