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After watching the second X files film (which was a bit disappointing) I felt very nostalgic for the series which had spawned it. Only £65 or so on amazon, so that's about 30p per episode, plus you get the first feature film. Most people must know what the show is about, right? An x file is a case which has been deemed to be unsolvable by the FBI, usually because it has some sort of paranormal explanation which no normal agent will think about. Agent Fox Mulder set about investigating the X Files and became an expert in the paranormal, after coming to believe he witnessed his little sister being abducted by aliens. His partner is Dana Scully, who is assigned to work with him to use her scientific and medical background. Each episode usually starts off with a weird occurence, often a murder. The agents are called in, Mulder has some weird explanation (vampires, zombies, ghosts, aliens, mutants, freaks, time travel) and scully tries to come up with more plausible ideas. Usually mulder is right. About 10% of the episodes involve an ongoing storyline about a conspiracy in the government to hide evidence of aliens and their plot to colonise the planet, linked to Mulder's sister's abduction. Those episodes often show us the most personal sides of the agents and their lives.

Having forgotten most of the episodes, it was a bit of a shock to see just how ridiculous and awful some of them really were! Too many of them had a weird, vague ending with no clear resolution, this became more and more evident in season 9, esp whenever Monica Reyes was involved.

Watch from season 1, when the characters are still fresh, and you see Dana Scully as a bright young agent, yet to be dragged into giving up her normal life to an endless search for the truth, all the way to season 9, where Mulder has gone into hiding and been replaced by new agents Doggett and Reyes, with scully having finally had to give up her skepticism and take on the role of a believer. The evolution of the two key characters is great, as is that of their supervisor, Assistant director Skinner. I mentioned there were many awful espisodes, but you get to see all the great ones too - Beyond the sea, Tooms, Sleepless, One Breath, Clyde Bruckman's final repose, Small potatoes, Demons.... list goes on and on! The worst has got to be fearful symmetry - where aliens are abducting and impregnating zoo animals.... Plus you get to watch all the mythology episodes.

There are extras of course. Many episodes have deleted scenes (almost none of them were of any interest, except for in the pilot episode where Dana Scully was supposed to have a boyfriend). There are little documentaries discussing each season, most of which are dull. There are also a few shows trying to pull together the various threads of the mythology to make them easier to understand - alien abduction, the black oil, colonisation, supersoldiers.

Box set is a bargain, v glad to be back with these episodes. Seasons 6,7 and 9 were prob the worst of the series, but every series has at least one gem, so try going through them all!

This film was really the most unbearable nonsense, the Irish busker/hoover repair man was perhaps the most annoying person ever. The music was awful, he must have been listening to an awful lot of Damien Rice.

It's strange to see a action movies' actor "acting" in a real battlecamp. The tour of Ross Kemp (Ultimate Force and so on) with the british troops in Afghanistan is very interesting. He make a hystory of the deployment of Vikings beginning from the preparation at home. The scenes at Camp Bastion and during the missions are excellent and they make a "real" reportage of operations in Afghanistan where the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment - the Vikings - lost 9 men with 57 wounded in over 350 engagements with Taliban (and over 1.000 losses for the enemy).
A limit ? It's always a TV show (for families) not a bloodybath-warmovie: the real war with blood, tears and sweat is only on background.

Scrubs is now well established, and i am a massive fan, but now i'm watching the final series and cant help to look back and think "Why is it not as good anymore?"

The fourth season, for me, was the peak of Scrubs. We got to know the characters a lot better and developed relationships with them and therefore shared their feelings. Plus of course the Janitor got a much larger role!!! We were also treated with better story lines, creative camera shots and stunts, and of course guset stars like Heather Graham, Colin Farrell, Tara Reid and Matthew Perry. Not to forget Zach Braff having the oppertunity to direct a couple of episodes. All in all definately the best Season form the entire season, statr to finish!

ITV are to be congratulated on this sci-fi series.
I think it borders on 'going where no man has gone before' and has the potential to become a classic.
Time/space anomalies, ruptures in the space/time continuum, baddies trying to alter the natural timeline for their own advantage and an ideosyncratic bunch of heroes trying to save mankind.
As well as all that it has creatures from the past,creatures from the present and one of the least predicable story lines.
If you're a fan of sci-fi or fantasy this should fit the bill.
Roll on series 3.

I'd love to rate it five star as everyone else has done but it was just "too" contrived, although it was the object of the film. The mix of jurors was excellent and the way the characters interacted was superb but I felt that i) it wouldn't happen as conveniently as that in reality..ii) Lee J.Cobb capitulated too easily...iii) Fonda actually thought that the boy could've committed the murder...iv) the absence of any other suspect..
...v) if everybody's testament was flawed then not even Fonda's argument/reasoning was perfect? That said, it did enthral and showed how prejudiced our beliefs can be..but, by his analysis of human nature he could've acquitted Jack the Ripper....All in all a typical(though not at that time) lawyeristic case of proving others faults, and, like the bible say's, "He who without Sin, cast the first stone"?
Overall well worth the money and highly watchable!

This is a great series from one of the funniest shows on TV. Fantastically good and consistently entertaining. Great stuff.

Malkovich is once again mesmerising as the tragic but memorable Lennie, a simple minded man born into a cruel world. Senise plays his inseparable buddy and guardian, George, and you feel for him as he struggles hard to cope with looking after the difficult Lennie, mainly because the harsh world doesn't have the time or patience to understand such a man whose behavior can be a little worrying and eccentric. The stretched out wheat fields make a great movie landscape and the mood of the era is quite well defined, it seems. Then you come to the humanity of the famous story, the painful humanity that will not leave you, just as the pain will not leave George, who is forced into making an unenviable decision by circumstances you sort of sense coming. A good film version which succeeds in showing much of the flavour of the Steinbeck classic, if perhaps not quite as much power with its message, although it does try. Novels can usually get across statements about the world we live in with much more effect than films, however. It is a good effort though and is a rewarding, if inevitably sad film to watch.

Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Bill Shirley, Verna Felton, Bill Thompson

I don't see how people can be permitted to write reviews of products that haven't been released yet.
But since I can...
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