Your week in film, TV and beyond. This week: The X-Files

Wednesday 1.20

Season two of the post-WWII spy series Marvel’s Agent Carter premiered on ABC last night. Didn’t DVR it? Find it on demand today. Unlike its dreary network-TV counterpart, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Carter isn’t burdened with setting up the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which leaves Hayley Atwell to battle atomic-age threats and sexism in breezy fashion.

Thursday 1.21

On a break from making Louie, Louis C.K. co-created and produced Baskets, a bizarre comedy series, for his old pal Zach Galifianakis. The premiere is tonight on FX, so expect plenty of uncomfortable deadpan humor as Galifianakis plays the show’s namesake, Chip Baskets, a bitter, classically trained clown who’s slumming it for a rodeo.

Friday 1.22

The 2008 cult-horror movie Pontypool, adapted from a Tony Burgess novel, is now a play. John Rensenhouse stars in the Living Room Theatre’s production as a shock jock who discovers a virus that turns people into cannibalistic zombies. Directed by local musician Cody Wyoming, the show runs through January 31.

Saturday 1.23

If you’ve only seen the Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse double feature from the comfort of your couch, you haven’t really seen it. At 9 p.m., Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet resurrects this one-of-a-kind, mid-budget exploitation tribute, giving us the opportunity to see it the way it was meant to be seen — late at night, with a rowdy, half-drunken crowd.

Sunday 1.24

Meryl Streep earned an Oscar nomination for the 1981 adult-romantic drama, The French Lieutenant’s Woman. The Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library screens the film for free at 1:30 p.m., followed by a discussion with a UMKC professor and psychoanalyst. Also, after nine spotty seasons and two spotty movies, The X-Files returns as a six-episode miniseries on Fox. Screenland Armour shows the two-episode kickoff live at 9 tonight and Monday for free on its big screen.

Monday 1.25

Word is really starting to get out about USA Network’s paranoid-hacker drama, Mr. Robot, and Amazon’s New York-set comedy Mozart in the Jungle, especially now that both have taken home Golden Globes. Start binging them now: Mr Robot: The Complete First Season is available on Blu-ray and can be streamed on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube and Vudu. Seasons one and two of Mozart in the Jungle are streaming now on Amazon.

Tuesday 1.26

KU film professor Kevin Willmott co-wrote the urgent, gonzo satire Chi-Raq with director Spike Lee. No matter what you’ve heard about this movie — adapted from the Greek play Lysistrata and spoken mostly in hip-hop-style verse — you have to see it to believe it. The Blu-ray is out today, or buy or rent a digital copy from Amazon.

Eric Melin is editor of Scene-Stealers.com.