Things are very, very grim in "The Long Walk," the adaptation of Stephen King's 1979 novel (published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman), which is essentially "The Hunger Games" for teenage boys, or "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" for Gen Z" texts that traffic in the extreme outcomes of American capitalism, a force that rots from within, ripe for dissection for nearly a century. "The Long ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AM on September 10, 2025