The first trailer for X-Files: I Want to Believe has hit the interweb and it’s as full of all the ambiguity and befuddledness that Mulder and Scully are used to giving their confused audiences. What’s the film about? We don’t really know. But we do know that Billy Connolly seems to have a bigger part than whatever creature/alien/mutant/itinerant’s existence Mulder must convince Sceptic Scully of.

What we do know is that it’s great to see two of Television’s greatest characters back in duffel-coats and pointing flashlights at shadows. And the stand-alone plot will make for a nice breather from the bloated beast that the show’s ongoing alien conspiracy eventually became.

Rumours suggest that ‘I Want to Believe’ is about werewolves, but what do we think? Judging from the trailer, the big bad could be Frosty the Snowman or Jack Frost, but our money’s on the Anti-Santy. Most say that the existence of the Anti-Santy is an urban myth, but I bet Fox Mulder knows better.

Click below and get excited at hearing THAT theme tune again.

Trailer

One final thought; how bad is that title? It sounds like a mantra for some self-help class. Does anyone out there think it’s good? Let us know below. We would have gone with The X-Files: I Want to See Aliens or The X-Files 2: Spooky Shit. Or The X-Files: What Have We Been Doing For the Last 10 Years?

by Richy Davies

“Go speed racer, Go”. For anyone old enough to remember the original cartoon Speed Racer, then these words will be comfortingly familiar. For the uninitiated, Speed Racer was a quirky children’s cartoon that first ran in the 1960‘s with a comeback in the 1990‘s, following the adventures of the eponymous Speed Racer. Each week Speed would compete in a race while also becoming inexplicably involved in a dastardly plan that usually managed to intersect the worlds of international terrorism and professional racing. Predictably, it would then rest on the shoulders of Speed Racer to thwart such plans and win the race, thus providing neat narrative closure and restoring some semblance of order to the Universe.

by Dave Corkery

Here’s an enigma: Is Robert Downey Jr. a great actor or is Robert Downey Jr. just being Robert Downey Jr. all the time? When a charismatic, smart-mouthed playboy is playing a charismatic, smart-mouthed playboy, it’s hard to tell whether we’re looking at a de Niro style performance or just some cool guy who’s comfortable in front of a camera. But really, when an actor can bring this much energy, humour and sarcastic cool to a role, who really cares if he’s acting or just having a laugh? Downey Jr. is an absolute joy to watch and proves that he oozes enough charm to front a super-budget Hollywood movie. Like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, he has proven that he can make the transition from indie golden boy to megastar leading man with ease. What this will mean for his career though, is another matter.

… then Robocop would be an utter waste of tax-payers’ money

by Richy Davies

The thing about technology is that essentially it is shit. It is utterly unreliable and usually makes a point to stop working at a critical moment. Machines are notorious pains in the arse, and so are people for that matter. Robocop is half man and half machine. Worse still, he’s half Irish-man, half machine. Try to imagine if Windows Vista carried a semi-automatic hand cannon and was powered by a dead Irish-man who isn’t particularly pleased about being deceased.

You are imagining Robocop.

Despite being bullet proof, Robocop was not much better than any normal cop, and he was prone to rust. The cost of running and feeding Robocop could probably have paid the salaries of another 20 cops. That’s an entire department.