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This week we watch three films depicting future sports - arena deathmatch, hunt the runner and wacky races. We travel to 2018 to watch the final matches of that season’s Rollerball (1975), with James Caan looking fairly clueless as he caves in his opponents’ heads. Next we’re whisked to the most popular French game show of the ‘80s; Le Prix du Danger (1983) where a man must run for his life like a Running Man (1987)… We finish during the qualifying stages of the fastest motorsport in the galaxy where Sweet JP is racing his way to Redline (2009) and there’s no time for subplots. Also: The future’s bright, the future’s orange. The London Rockin’ Rollers. Roller Ball Murder in Esquire. Don’t hurt the dog. MySpace deletes the 13th century. Not now Kato! Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe. Jean Rougerie. Jean-Claude Dreyfus. The Running Man. Madhouse. Pole Position. Spider god. Explain spread betting to me? Ghost in the Shell (2017). Steamboy (2004). Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986). We play a game of “Eyes on the Prize”