“Halo” is a story about a super soldier known as Master Chief (aka John-117) who fights aliens in space over ancient technology. You might think from the description that it’s a story you’ve seen many times before. Certainly, “Halo” wears its influences on its sleeve. But don’t underestimate the world of the games, which has […]
Continue readingFestivalsA trio of global festival favorites — Pan Nalin‘s “Last Film Show,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki‘s “No Land’s Man” and Gurvinder Singh‘s “Crescent Night” (“Adh Chanani Raat”) — will open the 11th edition of the Bmo International Film Festival of South Asia (Iffsa), Toronto (Aug. 11-21). The festival is in-person at venues across the Greater Toronto […]
Continue readingI’ll admit, I had a bad feeling about this episode right when the first-look images dropped, featuring a glaring absence of the Master Chief, Dr. Halsey, or anyone else that the overarching storyline of “Halo” has focused on up to this point. Those concerns only increased as early as the “Previously on ‘Halo’” segment, which took […]
Continue readingNow that’s more like it.I’ll admit I’ve found myself surprisingly charmed by the unique direction that season 1 showrunners Steven Kane and Kyle Killen have taken this “Halo” series so far, flaws and all. Rather than walking down the obvious path of crafting a straightforward adaptation of “Combat Evolved,” they instead opted for a downright […]
Continue readingAfter decades of Hollywood failing to adapt popular video games, the genre might be starting to turn a corner. “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” is a bona fide blockbuster, cementing the Sega adaptation as a reliable franchise for Paramount. And Steven Spielberg’s long-gestating “Halo” series has earned decent reviews (a massive accomplishment within the much-maligned genre).One […]
Continue readingParamount+ has dropped a teaser for the third episode of “Halo,” and it features a glimpse of a certain blue AI, who may be familiar to fans of the Xbox video games on which the series is based. That’s right: it looks like Cortana is about to make her live-action debut on the next episode of “Halo.”The […]
Continue readingParamount+ has managed to score a big hit with “Halo,” the big-budget streaming adaptation of the wildly popular video games of the same name. Things are moving right along in the first season with the show’s second episode recently hitting the streaming service. It brought a lot to the table, revealing more of Master Chief’s […]
Continue readingMaybe you’re a fan of the game franchise “Halo.” Maybe you saw all the crazy drones in the sky over Austin, Texas during the SXSW festival advertising the new Paramount+ series. Maybe you just like Pablo Schreiber a whole lot. Whatever your fandom level, even if you’re not a Paramount+ subscriber, you can still check […]
Continue readingAfter such a long and tortured path to making its way to a screen near you, you didn’t think the creators behind “Halo” would neglect to include all sorts of Easter eggs and references — no matter how obvious or how niche — throughout the long-awaited premiere episode of the new Paramount+ series, did you? The […]
Continue readingLooking back, it’s remarkable to think about how a first-person shooter called “Halo: Combat Evolved” triumphantly arrived on the scene in 2001 and changed the medium forever, boldly introducing us to that eponymous ringworld within its very first few seconds and wasting no time moving the action to one of the most well-realized settings of any […]
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