(TV SERIES) HALO Season 1 - An Interesting Adaptation of the Popular Video Game With Great Visual Effects and Some Amazing Action Sequence

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that there was a series that I watched during my trip last month on the inflight entertainment of Emirates airline. As the series was not available in Indonesia via any of the legal streaming services, I decided to give it a try while I had the chance. I began watching it during my departure flight but since the time was not sufficient, I had to continue on my way flight home. Anyway, let's get right at it.

Brief Story Line

Story was set in the 26th century where there was a war between humans and the alien race called Covenant. Dr. Catherine Halsey (Natascha McElhone - The Truman Show, Californication TV series etc) together with Admiral Parangosky (Shabana Azmi - City of Joy, What's Love Got to do With it? etc) and Captain Keyes (Danny Sapani - Harlots TV series etc) developed a Super Soldiers program referred to as Spartan to fight against the Covenant. These Spartans were led by Master Chief John-117 (Pablo Schreiber - Skyscraper, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi etc) and consisted of Kai-125 (Kate Kennedy), Riz-028 (Natasha Culzac) and Vannak-134 (Bentley Kalu) as the Silver Team. 

To Catch a Killer - A Dark and Rather Heavy Crime Drama Movie

While going home from my trip around two weeks ago, I watched few movies (and series) on the inflight entertainment of Emirates airline. This was one of them which I just noticed was in the Coming Soon section of Indonesian's cinema chain and reminded me that I have not written about it. All right, I will get to it now.

Brief Story Line

When a mass shooting happened on New Year's eve, police officer Eleanor (Shailene Woodley - Adrift, Snowden etc) was one of the first to arrive at the scene where she showed some quick thinking, though the suspect was never caught. Due to the severity of the case, the experienced FBI Agent Lammark (Ben Mendelsohn - Secret Invasion Mini Series, Spies in Disguise etc) was assigned to lead a task force. He then asked Eleanor to join even though she did not have any proper background and another experienced detective Jack Mackenzie (Jovan Adepo - Babylon, The Leftovers TV series etc).

Knights of the Zodiac - Disappointing for Hard Core Fans but Personally not as Bad as I Thought would be

While I was on the flight for my holiday trip with my wife few days ago, there were so many options of the inflight entertainment on Emirates Airline. And since both connecting flights took several hours, I managed to watch few movies that never got the chance to be shown in Indonesia till now. This was one of those. All right, let's get to the movie then.

Brief Story Line

Seiya (Mackenyu - Rurouni Kenshin: The Final Chapter, Pacific Rim Uprising etc) had been trying to make ends meet by becoming a street fighter while trying to search for his older sister Patricia. After showing some sort of energy burst (cosmo) when he fought with Cassios (Nick Stahl - Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Carnivale TV series etc), Seiya was approached by a mysterious wealthy man named Alman Kido (Sean Bean - Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, Golden Eye etc) who was locating people with such cosmo. Despite his reluctance, Seiya had no choice but to cooperate with Alman and his trusted assistant Mylock (Mark Dacascos - John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, Double Dragon etc) as a group of cyborg soldiers tried to capture him.

The Protege - A Gritty Action Thriller Movie

In my last holiday trip, I was on long connecting flights for around 17 hours which gave me plenty of time to enjoy the inflight entertainment. And in the Emirates Airline, there were tons of movies that somehow I have not seen, so I spent a lot of time watching several of them. This was one of those films that I wanted to write as it was quite new and just released on one of the streaming platform last week. Well here's more to it.

Brief Story Line

Anna (Maggie Q - Fantasy Island, Divergent movies etc) was a professional contract killer raised from childhood by her mentor Moody (Samuel L. Jackson - Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Incredibles 2 etc). As a cover for her main work, Anna opened a rare books shop in London where she got acquainted with a mysterious guy named Michael Rembrandt (Michael Keaton - American Assassin, Dumbo live version etc).