The Running Man (15, 133 mins) Verdict: Breathlessly pacy Rating: For nigh on half a century, Stephen King’s novels and short stories have been adapted, often brilliantly, for the screen. The latest addition to a list that begins with Carrie in 1976, and includes The Shining (1980), Stand By Me (1986), Misery (1990) and The Shawshank Redemption (1994), is Edgar Wright’s dystopian thriller The Running Man. It is not out of place in such illustrious company. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King wrote The Running Man in 1982, setting it, as it happens, in the distant year 2025. King’s vision...