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 ...
Comedy may be the genre most associated with director Edgar Wright, but he's also proven time and again that he's got a great sense for kinetic action. His Cornetto Trilogy — "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot ...
In the 1980s, science-fiction movies reveled in presenting the future as a grand bad dream of where we were headed — movies like “Blade Runner,” “Outland,” “The Terminator,” and “Escape from New York.
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 ...
Stumbling from the start and never finding its footing, "The Running Man" is an incoherent dystopian sci-fi action blunder that fumbles what was fun about 1987's original and has nothing fresh to say ...
In an alternate future, The Running Man follows Ben Richards (Glen Powell), a desperate man who just wants to provide for his family. After being blacklisted by vengeful bosses and unable to recoup ...
A divisive 2025 Stephen King sci-fi remake becomes an instant No. 1 streaming sensation in the United States shortly after ...