Donnie Darko

Some of the films and stars coming to Sundance 2024.Image: SundanceThe 2024 movie season kicks into high gear this week with the start of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Each year, Sundance is where many of the biggest, most buzzworthy independent films start their journeys to either box office success or critical glory—and, with the festival now being both digital and in-person, audiences everywhere can participate.Sundance might be best known for its dramatic fare (Oscar winners like Coda and Little Miss Sunshine got…

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Stills from some of the genre films coming to Sundance 2023.Image: SundanceThe 2023 movie season kicks into high gear this week with the start of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Each year, Sundance is where many of the big, buzzy, independent films start their journeys to either box office success or critical glory—and, with the festival now being both digital and in-person, audiences everywhere can participate.Sundance might be best known for its dramatic fare (like last year’s best picture winner, Coda, which premiered…

Mulder and Scully on the box art for a season seven X-Files DVD release.Image: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentThe X-Files generally didn’t give much shine to holidays—aside from a few notable exceptions, like the season-six classic “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas.” But the looming arrival of the year 2000 was too juicy for a show that reveled in conspiracy theories to ignore, and thus the aptly titled “Millennium” popped up in late 1999, early in the show’s seventh season.As devotees of late-’90s television will…

19) Charles T. Baker, Planet 51Image: Sony PicturesPlanet 51 is one of those weird movies that felt like the kind of thing people signed up for when they wanted a third house. In this animated film from 2009, Johnson plays a hapless astronaut who crash lands on a planet full of alien life, and the usual fish-out-of-water/alien-on-Earth hijinks ensue. We’renot saying anyone phoned it in on the voice acting in this film, but it certainly didn’t make anyone a standout. This is the least Rock he’s ever been, as he’s both…