In a dystopian future, criminals risk their lives to entertain the masses on TV. Isn’t that the present day NFL? National Felon League jokes aside, The Running Man occupies that well-trodden dangerous game territory, occupied by the likes of Rollerball, Squid Game, Battle Royale, The Condemned…and further down the food chain, cheap and cheerful CanadianContinue reading “The Running Man”
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Damage
The Damage tagline is “bring the pain,” so it could be that there’s some filmic kinship with Roadhouse through its Zen koan, “pain don’t hurt.” But Damage is kind of a reverse Roadhouse (the remake, that is): instead of a cage fighter being pulled into bouncing, the arrow points in the opposite direction. Stone ColdContinue reading “Damage”
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