Battle Royale is an intense and brutal story about Japanese high school students who are sent off by their government with three days to kill each other — until only one remains. With its blend of ...

The movie that most directly inspired The Hunger Games wasn’t another Hollywood blockbuster but a much older cultural idea that eventually showed up in film and storytelling: the Japanese thriller ...

Did The Hunger Games actually take more than just inspiration from the cult classic Battle Royale? Quentin Tarantino just reignited one of Hollywood’s most controversial conversations, and this short ...

A teaser trailer showed soldiers scattering through a tropical location as the camera panned backwards to a massive firestorm spreading down a mountain toward them. The official launch trailer, though ...