When last we left Cowboy Bebop, an old Betamax tape had arrived onboard, leading our crew on a somewhat ridiculous mission to find an ancient viewing device. What will happen when they encounter a group of space pirates? Tune in this month at "Cyberpunk Cinema!" After a quick warm-up session with our favorite anime space-Western, Tosh Chiang — a well-known face around the punk non-profit Thrillhouse Records — will serve the main course. Actually, free popcorn is the main course for most of these jolly hangabouts. The feature films can run the gamut – Pi, Repo Man, Dredd, eXistenZ – but never has one tested the limits of cyberpunk credibility like this month's offering. Stephen King wrote The Running Man in a single week. The movie, starring not one but two onetime state governors, is much, much worse. In fact, it is so bad, we think the right mix of strong cocktails (served by Thrillhouse founder Fred Schrunk), terrible trivia (when Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for office, he actually named his campaign bus "Running Man"), and drunken heckling (hashtag #cyberpunkcinema gets you on the screen) could turn this pile into the Showgirls of Cyberpunk Cinema.
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