Hard Time Alcatraz Fox, Mondays, 10 PM “Jack Sylvane” Written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Steven Lilien & Bryan Winbrandt Directed by Danny Cannon “Ernest Cobb” Written by Alison Belian Directed by Jack Bender “This is Alcatraz. No one forgets” – First Guard So. Here we are again: a mystery island, underground bunkers, and Jorge Garcia. Reruns of Lost? No, this is JJ Abrams’ newest excursion into weird TV, Alcatraz, which is supposed to be a police procedural with a time-travel twist. I’m not sure these ingredients are going to work this time around, because they’re in a different context. First of all,…
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The X-Files: I Want To Believe
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Chris Carter Fox, July 2008 Rated PG-13 for sex and violence This is The X-Files I fell in love with in 1993. Chris Carter’s feature directing debut, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe”, takes us back to basics while never letting go of the hard-won developments in the X-Files universe that nine years of television bequeathed us. On the one hand, we have the bare-bones, standalone “episode”–Mulder and Scully re-team after six years to investigate a case that may or may not have paranormal aspects. On…