Edgar Wright’s “The Running Man” takes place in a future where entertainment studios have conglomerated into a monstrous monopoly that warps the news to serve their conservative agenda. It’s a movie ...
If you’re my age and you like watching stuff blow up real good, you know the definitive Arnold Schwarzenegger movie canon. That canon includes a handful of now-established science-fiction masterpieces ...
Decades later, unsettling ideas presented by horror great Stephen King in “The Running Man” continue to resonate. Published in 1982 under the pen name Richard Bachman, “The Running Man” is set in a ...
Let's make this simple. You want to know if there are any mid- or post-credits scenes in The Running Man. The answer is no, though the entirety of the closing credits are accompanied by some ...
Why walk when you can run? The second Stephen King adaptation about a contest to the death for a large cash prize has hit theaters this fall — Edgar Wright’s take on “The Running Man,” which was ...
The actor stars as an Everyman battling it out in a near-future but familiarly dystopian America in the director Edgar Wright’s new version of the Stephen King novel. By Manohla Dargis When you ...
The Running Man is out in theaters this weekend, combining a talented director, Edgar Wright, with a so-hot-right-now star in Glen Powell. The film is an adaptation of Stephen King’s original book, ...
One tricky thing about writing dystopian fiction with staying power is that the future eventually catches up with you. Stephen King's 1982 novel The Running Man takes place in 2025. In his vision of, ...