Summer movies mean adrenaline. This summer we've gotten a fair amount of that via superhero flicks. August has seen some decent action/comedies ("Pineapple Express," "Tropic Thunder") that, while hilarious, didn’t totally satiate our venturesome needs. This weekend we get our prescribed dosage in "Death Race" based on the 1975 film "Death Race 2000" (read Kurt Loder's review of "Death Race" here). Now before you speed out to the theater to catch the first viewing of this supercharged action piece, try racing over to the store to pick up these older gems that really know how to get your heart pumping.

THE RUNNING MAN (1987)
If Arnold Schwarzenegger pumps adrenaline, this film bleeds adrenaline. A future TV game show takes prisoners and lets them fight for their freedom on a human obstacle course. The trick you ask? No one gets out alive. So when Ben Richards (Schwarzenegger), a wrongly convicted (aren’t they always) prisoner, finds himself having to fend for his life and freedom, us in the audience get to see some pretty classic future brutality. If you thought contestants had it bad when Simon or Paula ripped into them, how about if Simon had a chainsaw or Randy with a sharpened hockey stick? Read more...