The Running Man Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/the-running-man/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:07:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png The Running Man Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/the-running-man/ 32 32 ‘The Running Man’ Review: The Wright stuff https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/14/the-running-man-review-the-wright-stuff/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:07:38 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042660 Thanks to Baby Driver breaking people’s brains (and that Anthony Bourdain tweet didn’t help matters), Edgar Wright is now caught in a miserable catch-22. If he were to continue making the types of films he always has — deliciously self-critical and deeply personal tributes to genre cinema — he runs the risk of the work being misunderstood at best and uncharitably savaged at worst (see Last Night in Soho and the baffling vitriol that was hurled its way). If he […]

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]]> Watch the blistering new trailer for ‘The Running Man’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/14/watch-the-blistering-new-trailer-for-the-running-man/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:50:23 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042483 We might not have been the world’s biggest fans of Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk, but at least we’ve got one more motion-themed Stephen King adaptation left this year: Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, which has a whole host of Hollywood talent in the cast and offers the British filmmaker behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz a chance to bring some of his hyperactive style to a near-future thriller. The film had a large presence at this year’s […]

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]]> See Glen Powell, uh, run in the ‘Running Man’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/01/see-glen-powell-uh-run-in-the-running-man-trailer/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:28:59 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041927 We’re not going to recycle our lede from our post about The Long Walk, the Francis Lawrence movie based on a Stephen King novel that involves a running-themed game show or sporting event, or whatever. No, that’s not who we are. This is a post about The Running Man, Edgar Wright’s adaptation of a Stephen King novel about a running-themed game show or sporting event or whatever. Even better, it’s a remake of one of our favorite B-tier Arnold Schwarzenegger […]

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]]> Welcome To 1984: Seven dystopian fiction films to help grasp our political climate https://vanyaland.com/2017/04/06/welcome-to-1984-seven-dystopian-fiction-films-to-help-grasp-our-political-climate/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:05:37 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=157268 Metropolis (Netflix/Fandor) Fritz Lang’s masterpiece debuted in Berlin 21 years prior to the release of Orwell’s novel, both being expressions of their author’s fears about their respective post-war societies, and how easily a country can slide into a totalitarian hellhole. Much of our current dystopian media owes a tremendous debt to Lang, whose visions of a class-strained technologically-advanced society brought Art Deco to the masses and have influenced everything from Chaplin’s Modern Times to Star Wars to Madonna’s “Express Yourself” […]

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