AFTER that television series which asked "Is there something out there?'' comes the answer!
It's the new Mulder and Scully movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe, and it's out there in your local cineplex.
Scottish actor/comedian Billy Connolly is also out there with Mulder and Scully, playing a strangely disturbed priest, Father Crissman. Not someone to cross on a dark, snowy night! There is a lot of snow and a lot of dark snowy nights in this supernatural thriller.
Is there anyone out there who has never heard of Mulder and Scully? If so, it's catch up time: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, were FBI agents introduced to viewers around the world in 1993 (1994 in Australia) in what was to be a long-running television series (1993 to 2002).
Over nearly 200 episodes (he left after 174), Mulder the true believer and Scully the sceptic were busy trying to explain the unexplainable.
And explaining the unexplainable is pretty well what goes on in The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Father Crissman believes there is something nasty under the snow and Scully and Mulder and a large team of FBI agents set out to find it.
There's an odd link between The X-Files and a kung-fu comedy fantasy, Forbidden Kingdom, also opening today.
Starring with Jet Li and Jackie Chan is a young American actor Michael Angarano who at the age of eight made his show-business debut playing David Duchovny's son in a spoof episode of Saturday Night Live in 1995.
In Forbidden Kingdom, he appears as a teen whose obsession with kung-fu movies and the discovery of a traditional Chinese weapon in a local pawnshop takes him back in time to ancient China where he will meet the Monkey King (Jet Li), the original owner of his pawnshop relic.
By an odd coincidence, two new films, each dealing with old age arrive in cinemas today.
How About You is British and comes with an outstanding cast including Vanessa Redgrave, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker and Joss Ackland.
The setting is Woodlands, a retirement home where most of the residents have gone to spend Christmas with relatives, leaving a grumpy foursome known as the "hardcore'' because of their, mostly, appalling behaviour.
Left to care for the hardcore is the matron/manager's young sister, Kate (Orla Brady), who, it turns out, can be just as rebellious as the old folk.
From the other side of the Atlantic comes The Savages.
Brother and sister, Jon and Wendy Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney) have managed to avoid seeing their abusive father, Lenny (Philip Bosco) for 20 years when suddenly they are called upon to care for him in his old age.
The film has been a long time coming. Film fans who like to see all the ''best'' actor/actress nominations before the Academy Awards each year missed out in 2008 because Australian audiences were denied the opportunity to see Laura Linney's performance in The Savages in which she was nominated for a best actress Oscar. Now they can.
Starring in Mamma Mia, Pierce Brosnan can also be seen, from today, in the crime drama, Married Life along with Chris Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Patricia Clarkson and OZ star David Wenham.
In Married Life, Cooper is an odd character who firmly believes his wife couldn't cope with being told he is having an affair, so he decides it would be much kinder to kill her!
His character also mistakenly introduces the gorgeous girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) to bachelor pal Brosnan. Big mistake, that!
X-Files: I Want to Believe trailer:
http://www.xfiles.com/
Forbidden Kingdom trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE7ny2bfXF0
How about You trailer:
http://media.theage.com.au/?rid=39549
The Savages trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu9G9OxHMhI
Marr ied Life trailer:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/marriedlife/
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