'Halo 3' meets expectations of loyal fans
Within the world of Halo 3
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Within the world of Halo 3
It's safe to say that Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer of Gears of War 2
If you've experienced the barrage of ads for Infinity Ward's newest shooter, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,"" you've already heard the most important concept to remember - ""Wars change. Soldiers don't."" The game moves the series from the familiar World War II into modern day military combat. However, the essence of the game remains intact.
My mother shares a birthday with Jay Leno. When the bartender announced this during her birthday celebration at the Nitty Gritty last week, I flew into an instant rage, forgetting the occasion and proclaiming, ""I wish he were dead!"" to the entire restaurant. Mom was a tad unsettled by how quickly I could jump to murder, but frankly, I'm on Team Coco 'til the end.
Moving around on crutches with a small futon mattress strapped to your chest might be a tad awkward. But Ben Roseberry transforms what sounds like some kind of moving day disaster into a theatric performance as Ed, one of the three hyenas that play lackey to the villainous Scar in the production of ""The Lion King,"" which debuts on the Overture Hall stage Tuesday.
Back in ninth grade English class, my teacher Mrs. Stocks-Glover drew a triangular plot diagram on the chalkboard. The linguistic geometry lesson had one fundamental point—all great stories have a beginning, a climax and an end. That last bit—the end—is something that TV series seem to screw up on a regular basis.
What typically drives the plot in a police procedural? Generally, we're presented with chases and gunfights leading up to the lead detective's wife getting kidnapped, where shit proceeds to get personal. In ""Mother,"" the emotion of homicide investigation comes from a protective mother who refuses to back down on her appeal to the detectives that her son ""couldn't hurt a waterbug!""
The world of ""Fish Tank"" teems with images that should shock audiences—children wander the road side looking for booze, money and general mischief while the few adults that are around scream obscenities at them, pushing them out of view to make way for their own drunken revelry and denials of responsibility. It's clearly a wretched place to grow up, and it's in that hell of urban waste that we find Mia, a 15-year-old aspiring break dancer who responds to this world with violent, obscenity-spewing rage towards her family, peers and even strangers.
Monday marked the announcement of yet another Star Wars TV series, which was met with much groaning from the world of entertainment journalism. I think that's a shame, because it seems like many of them had sharpened their barbed headlines before really reading the good news in between the lines of the announcement.
The main characters of ""Greenberg"" seem to be desperately repeating the same brief moment of their lives that they're afraid to let go of—those glorious post-college years when you have your whole life ahead of you. But instead of getting a nosebleed or disappearing Marty McFly-style as they keep traveling backwards to relive and try to fix the past, they just seem hollow and empty.
I haven't spoiled the crap out of ""Lost"" here in a while, so commence your groaning and flip to the comics if you're still back in season three waiting for Sawyer and Kate to get out of the cages. We're coming up on the halfway point in the final season of ""Lost,"" and every week fans and critics gripe about the fact that much of each episode thus far has been dedicated to flashes of the ""Sideways world,"" a what-if dimension where, in addition to Oceanic 815 safely landing in L.A., aspects of each former castaway's life are just a little different. Jack has a son and keeps finding weird scars on his body. Hurley thinks he's the luckiest guy in the world, not cursed. And apparently Ben is a good guy.
It's easy to assume that ""Bioshock 2,"" a sequel that many fans and even original game designer Ken Levine wanted little to do with, is all about the Benjamins—a pointless entry diluting the purity of the original's story and characters. While it cannot be said that ""Bioshock 2"" really does anything to outshine its predecessor, it tweaks the original formula (flaws and all) within a side story to the original game that extends our stay in the undersea city of Rapture by long enough to make it worth the trip back.
Determined to prove that I don't entirely hate America, the global stage and the majesty of curling, I turned on the closing ceremonies of the Olympics Sunday night to make an honest effort at patriotism. And boy, did those goofy paperboy outfits worn by our U.S. Olympians get me tearing up and screaming ""USA!"" at my TV. I was just about to replace the back window of my pickup truck with a painted mural of the American flag when an NBC promo flickered on my TV:
Repeats, repeats, repeats. What the hell? Apart from another brain-melting episode of ""Lost,"" my docket of TV shows has been completely pre-empted by some sort of world sporting event going on in a far-away place called ""Canada.""
An entire audience of people groans at the cheesy finale of ""The Wolfman,"" then angrily clears the auditorium before the credits even start rolling. Universal hatred drips from the walls as everyone from middle-aged married couples to teenagers who snuck in during the trailers consider demanding a refund.
Monday, Feb. 1. Sadly for me, I'm the Jin to your Sun, stuck 48 hours in the past and 24 hours before the ""Lost"" season six premiere. I've got my web browser open to an article that has been mocking me for at least 12 hours. I check back periodically, hoping that some legal power has demanded that it be banished from the visible realm of the Internet, but alas, to no avail.
Great music allows a collection of strings twanging, drums beating and bells shaking to be a medium through which the listener can bond with the performer. ""Crazy Heart"" attempts to give the complete picture of where soulful, personal music originates from—in this case, the hard-lived life of a country legend.
The premise of ""The Lovely Bones"" draws you in with high ideas about murder, death and the afterlife. A girl who is brutally murdered remains halfway between here and the hereafter while she comes to terms with leaving her life, her family and her killer remaining on Earth. Peter Jackson's adaptation of this Alice Sebold novel, though featuring some breakout performances and stunning visuals, doesn't use enough of the machinery for a solid film adaptation to support the ideas.
At time of publication, it's all but completely official: as early as Friday, Conan O'Brien will be removed as the host of ""The Tonight Show"" on NBC. He makes room for former host Jay Leno, who could find no love for his new show or giant chin in prime time.
The following is an excerpt from the script of an in-production episode for the hit NBC comedy ""30 Rock.""