MerovingianGoddess Reviews

The X-Files: Improbable (2002) Season 9, Episode 13

The Triple Zero Killer

[10/10 · 21 August 2013]

Murders in threes! I love numerology and it truly is an art but also a science, and a philosophy according to Pythagoras. The parody of the dialog is clever and amazingly accurate. Never let it be said that Chris Carter does not do his occult homework! And the aging Burt Reynolds is brilliant in this episode. "Your a card" "It's a Game" "Show me Fifth Street" "Her number was up" and then, out of nowhere "Have you noticed all babies look like Winston Churchill?" Oh come on - that's just hilarious!

It's just so cleverly written! I absolutely love the way Agent Reyes has no regrets or excuses about any of her beliefs or theories. She just believes it and smiles when someone asks her for logic. She even bewilders Mulder, so you gotta love that! "Einstein. Now there's a winner."

This is a fun and intelligent episode. Not since some of the earliest episodes was this much fun poured into an episode. Personally, I would have loved for Doggett and Reyes to have gone on to be "X-Files: the Next Generation"

The Cave (2005)

The DVD Sounds Great in Surround Sound!!

[8/10 · 15 June 2006]

I have to say that I can sum up this movie as a low budget "Alien" in an underwater/underworld environment. Okay that's it. Now let's get to the really important part - this movie sounds just great in surround sound!! I have serious onset insomnia and I have had it for about 25 years. So, there's a lot of hit and miss ways of trying to get to sleep for me and I have somewhat devoted my life to figuring out how to "get to sleep." Once asleep, I am fine. Therefore, I have a collection of what I call "sleep movies" and it's the sound not the bad dialog or the poor acting that puts me to sleep: it's the selection of tones. Seriously, producers need to consider the soundtrack to their movies when trying to put out movies. They maybe sabotaging their own movies with the underlying tones. It seems to be the sleepers that have these tones (no pun intended - LOL!!) I discovered the mechanics of sleep movies when I started falling asleep in DTS theatres during a movie that I was excited to see and enjoying. When we started buying surround sound for home theatres, I realized some of my favorite DVD's was suddenly knocking me out . . . this may sound like a bad review, or a very weird one for sure - but I have to say it beats Ambien-CR by a mile and is a lot less costly!! *Sleeping Sweet to The Cave*

Kalifornia (1993)

Kalifornia - Dark diamonds in the rough

[9/10 · 30 March 2006]

Kalifornia came out in 1993, just as 3 of the 4 lead characters were up and coming to the levels of fame they now possess in 2006. This is a nice psycho-thriller that should appeal to all David Duchovny fans because of his dry and intelligent narratives that find their ways into his work, like with most of his episodes of the X-Files, Playing God, and Red Shoe Diaries.

People who were put off by the heavy southern accent from Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis' characters obviously have never spent much time in the south. For every "Brian and Carrie" in the south, there is an "Adele and Early" and in 2006, that's the real horror of this flick.

Aside from that, I think the film was written with a cult film intention - like with Carrie's photography, it's not suitable for mass consumption. But if you have a copy of this in your personal library, I think it says something positive about your tastes for freaky movies.