After a ride that’s been far bumper than anyone expected, Paramount+’s lavish Halo adaptation has finally achieved what the game only took a single level
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Halo – Season 2, Episode 7: Thermopylae (2024) – Review
For someone who adored the first three main games of the epic Halo series, it’s actually quite flabbergasting that it’s taken fifteen episodes to get
Spaceman (2024) – Review
Whenever Adam Sandler decides to tackle a role with substance – rather than shape an entire comedy around just him hanging with his mates –
Halo – Season 2, Episode 6: Onyx (2024) – Review
Back when Halo’s second season was about to begin, the people involved took get pains to announce that the show was going to undergo something
20 Million Miles To Earth (1957) – Review
There’s something about a Ray Harryhausen film that sets it apart from other movies of its ilk. In fact, having a creation from the special
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) – Review
Experiencing chronic deja vu while watching an older movie is nothing new as filmmakers have been borrowing and homaging from older flicks for about as
Dune: Part Two (2024) – Review
Back in 2021, director Denis Villeneuve took a massive risk by tackling one of the white whales of sci-fi literature, Frank Herbert’s Dune. Not only
Halo – Season 2, Episode 5: Aleria (2024) – Review
Trying to follow up the Battle of Reach was always going to be a tall order, but in an almost admirable act of defiance, Halo’s
The One (2002) – Review
Long before numerous comic book franchises bet their box office on plundering the multiverse for ever more outlandish story ideas, we had The One: an
Sunshine (2007) – Review
During his genre-hopping days, Danny Boyle had already tangled with stripped back thrillers (Shallow Grave), brutal comedy drama (Trainspotting), quirky rom-coms (A Life Less Ordinary)
Halo – Season 2, Episode 4: Reach (2024) – Review
Well, after wading through three episodes of set up, sub plots and a lot of hand wringing angst, Halo finally gets to the moment that
Halo – Season 2, Episode 3: Visegrad (2024) – Review
After a slow start that’s tested the patience just as much as it’s tested the character’s collective resolve, it Halo’s second season is finally starting
Halo – Season 2, Episode 2: Sword (2024) – Review
As we head into the second episode of the second season of Halo, have have to be honest and say that despite the new focus
Fantastic Voyage (1966) – Review
When it comes to watching some of the older entries in the classic, sci-fi canon, its advisable to keep an open mind so wide, you
Halo – Season 2, Episode 1: Sanctuary (2024) – Review
The subtitle of Halo’s logo read “Combat Evolved” when the game first debuted on the XBox all those years ago – but when Paramount’s TV
Forbidden Planet (1956) – Review
When casting a glowing, green scanning ray upon the fertile realms of 50s science fiction, it doesn’t take the clicks and whirs of a super
Runaway (1984) – Review
If you needed more proof that the world of filmmaking contains more swings and roundabouts than a playground the size of Erith, all you need
Logan’s Run (1976) – Review
Dystopian futures are a funny old thing. Just as long as humankind’s civil liberties are being well and truly ploughed in the rear, the faceless
Barbarella (1968) – Review
Despite Roger Vadim’s 1968 swinging, sci-fi sex comedy, Barbarella being quite possibly the very definition of a cult classic, as a child of the Star
Explorers (1985) – Review
Before Gremlins, Joe Dante was the go-to guy for innovative, indie horror that broke new ground while simultaneously honouring the classics; but the moment that
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