About 20 minutes into Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, I had the same realization a lot of other people probably had while watching the trailers: There’s no way this movie can be bad. Wright, who cut ...
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 ...
Glen Powell says "no war but class war" in the rare Hollywood movie that wants to send audiences home angry — just not at each other. First published in 1982 but set in the year 2025 (ever heard of it ...
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 ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Stephen King made you walk. Now he’s making you run! In the year 2025, the United States has devolved into a dystopian dictatorship where the ultra-wealthy have all control and ...
It’s always interesting when time overtakes the dystopias of the past. In Stephen King’s 1982 novel “The Running Man,” the United States has fallen into a totalitarian state, divided between haves and ...
Running time: 133 minutes. Rated R (strong violence, some gore, language). In theaters Friday. Playing an all-powerful TV producer in the dystopian action film “The Running Man,” Josh Brolin ...
On the surface level The Running Man works as a highly-entertaining, heart-pumping action yarn with a charismatic leading man. But that’s a small part of what makes it truly great. This is a powerful, ...
Stephen King’s “The Running Man,” published in 1982, was set in 2025 and imagined the United States as an authoritarian dystopia. Gonna leave that there for a moment. Five years later, the book was ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. Stephen King’s The Running Man enters the box office race ...
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 ...