Glen Powell escapes death again, again, and again in the latest trailer for The Running Man, Edgar Wright’s upcoming adaptation of the 1982 Stephen King novel of the same name. The dystopian action flick stars Powell as Ben Richards, a family man who decides the only way he can get …
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This will be a spoiler-free review of Wake Up Dead Man. Mostly. We will tell you that it is Rian Johnson‘s third movie in his murder-mystery franchise involving a deductive sleuth mixing it up with a host of classic murder-mystery archetypes. We will list its cast members, which — as …
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Zach Cregger has a look of horror on his face. He has said something he should not have said. When the writer-director first penned what would become Barbarian, his 2022 Airbnb-set horror movie that turned into a word-of-mouth phenomenon, he was coming off years of work as an actor for …
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The clock strikes 2:17 a.m., and as if heeding some sort of pied piper’s call, 17 children run away. They just get up out of their beds, flee their houses and, arms outstretched, bolt into the night. No one has a clue as to where these kids went. The only …
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When Stephen King wrote The Running Man back in 1982 under his nom-de-plume Richard Bachman, the year 2025 felt so impossibly distant that it was possible to imagine a dystopia where expert assassins hunted innocent men for sport on the most popular television show in America. And while reality TV …
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Rian Johnson, the writer and director behind Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, loves whodunits, particularly due to “how malleable the genre is,” he shared on X last month. Johnson, who considers Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile(1978) andEvil Under the Sun(1982) touchstone films, announced the latest …
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