Running Scared opens with an eye-popping scene of extreme violence. It's part True Romance, part Lethal Weapon and part Matrix. The scene is extremely visual, with wildly shifting camera work, fast ...

I’m here to talk about a film I didn’t know existed until a few weeks ago — the 1986 comedy/drama Running Scared, starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines. Here’s the gist: Crystal and Hines star as ...

Even More Movies You Never Heard Of! concludes at Trailers from Hell, with screenwriter Max Landis giving a very animated introduction to 2006’s “hyperstylized crime fairytale” “Running Scared,” ...

Every once in a while, you walk out of a movie thinking to yourself, “Wow. That’s really messed up.” “Running Scared” will do that to you. Here’s why: A 10-year-old boy at the heart of the story ...

Writer-director Wayne Kramer works hard to turn his latest picture, “Running Scared,” into an operatic, unpredictable and thoroughly outlandish crime drama. Shooting for the sublime, he mostly ...

A good two-thirds of Running Scared feels like the most extravagantly stupid thriller in recent memory, like Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog reconfigured for the bread-and-circuses crowd. And then comes an ...

Wayne Kramer’s “Running Scared” is the kind of movie in which women and little kids get smacked around a lot — hard — so that the audience will cheer wildly when their abusers get wasted. It’s lower ...

Columbia Pictures is trying to scare up deals with Ray Romano and Kevin James for “Scared Guys,” the comedy that’s getting a rewrite by “Charlie’s Angels” scribe John August. Romano, who stars in ...