The original movie adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Running Man” was released in 1987. It wasn’t a huge box office or critical success. However, going on 20 years later and with the remake now in theaters, it felt like the best time for a rewatch.  The Plot The Running Man, the movie, tells the story…

I didn’t mean to watch Conan this week.  I was on a business trip to Indianapolis, and I couldn’t sleep. At 3am, I found the IFC channel playing Conan the Barbarian. Since it’s been a while since I’ve watched it and sleep wasn’t an option, I settled in. Pulp is hard to adapt authentically and a story as sprawling…

Sunshine is a beautiful movie, both visually and emotionally.  The dialogue is great. The stakes are high and the moral questions heavy, and both sides make sense. It’s not exactly a horror movie, but after H3 sat through 28 Days Later with me, he thought I might enjoy another Cillian Murphy/Danny Boyle collaboration. He was right (he usually is). Why…

Let me get this out of the way: I loved this movie. Fiction that subverts audience expectations and metafiction in particular appeals to me, although I find myself occasionally alone in my defense of some movies of this form