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Dhurandhar

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  • Title: Dhurandhar
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Dhurandhar is loosely adapted from real events involving Indian agents sent undercover to infiltrate gangs in Pakistan to prevent further terrorist attacks such as the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks (both shown on film). Sent into to Pakistan by way of Afghanistan, Hamza Ali Mazari (Ranveer Singh) inserts himself into the rivalry of two gangs seeking control of the Lyari region quickly rising up the ranks to become a trusted member of the organization led by Rehman Dakait (Akshaye Khanna).

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The Running Man

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  • Title: The Running Ma (2025)
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A more faithful adaptation to the original Stephen King story than the 1987 film, albeit ignoring King’s far more tragic end which punctuated the hopelessness of a future that looks more possible with every passing day, director Edgar Wright‘s version of The Running Man casts Glen Powell as down-on-his-luck blacklisted worker Ben Richards. In desperate need of medication for his sick daughter, Richards signs up to partake in the world’s most popular game show.

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The Running Man

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  • Title: The Running Man (1987)
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Set in the distant future of 6 years ago, 1987’s The Running Man starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards, an escaped convict and disgraced former police officer who was arrested for refusing to open fire on an unarmed mob in a totalitarian police state run by lies, propaganda, and brutal force that looks more and more prescient every day. Framed for the murders he refused to commit, Richard is tapped by Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), the host of the world’s most popular reality-TV game show, and forced into competing on The Running Man.

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Warfare

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  • Title: Warfare
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Crafted from the memories of the soldiers who lived through events, Warfare documents a Navy SEAL platoon deployed at night into a two-story home in the Anbar Province. Narratively weak, the film doesn’t attempt to put events of the film into any historical context, nor does it offer any explanation as to why this location is of any strategic importance. Instead we’re thrown into the situation with the (mostly interchangeable and underdeveloped) soldiers who live through the lulls and extreme action that make up modern warfare as they attempt to survive and escape a situation that quickly grows untenable.

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MacGyver – The Gauntlet

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  • Title: MacGyver – The Gauntlet
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With “The Gauntlet,” MacGyver Monday sends our intrepid science-adventurer MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) to Central America to extract a photojournalist (Robin Curtis) obsessed with taking down the corrupt regime. Curtis is your typical guest-star, at first fighting Mac until the danger of the situation, which also involves an old adversary (John Vernon) of MacGyver hellbent on revenge, becomes much too real. Although initially captured, the pair escape, but to get to freedom they’ll need to travel 100 kilometers to the Mexican border with the country’s army standing in their way.

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