• Newsletters
  • Donate now
  • CITY LIFE
    • Out Here
    • Public Service Announcement
    • Shop Local
    • Street View
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: City Life
    • Best of Chicago: Buy Local
    • Best of Chicago: Cannabis
    • Best of Chicago: Sports & Recreation
  • NEWS & POLITICS
    • News
    • Features
    • En español
    • Podcasts
      • The Ben Joravsky Show
      • Chicago Queer & Now
  • COLUMNS & OPINION
    • Anthony Ehlers: On Prisons
    • John Greenfield: On Transportation
    • Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
    • Ben Joravsky: On Politics
    • The Ben Joravsky Show
    • Dan Savage: Savage Love
    • Opinion
  • MUSIC
    • Music Features
    • Chicagoans of Note
    • Gossip Wolf
    • The Listener
    • The Secret History of Chicago Music
    • Music Reviews
    • Concert Previews
    • Early Warnings
    • Music listings community calendar
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: Music & Nightlife
    • Chicago in Tune guide
    • Bull Horn (paid sponsored content)
  • ARTS & CULTURE
    • Summer Theater & Arts Preview
    • Features
    • Theater
    • Dance
    • Visual arts
    • Book reviews
    • Ghost Light by Kerry Reid
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: Arts & Culture
    • Arts listings community calendar
  • FILM
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Small Screen
    • Archives
  • FOOD & DRINK
    • The Drinks Issue
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Best of Chicago: Food & Drink
    • Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content)
  • READER
    • About
      • Contact
      • Staff
      • Careers
    • Newsletters
    • Find a print copy
      • Print subscriptions
    • Advertise
    • Donate
    • Become a member
    • Contests
    • Reader Store
    • Classifieds
      • Matches
    • Nonprofit Guide
    • Reader 50
    • Best of Chicago
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
Chicago Reader

Chicago Reader

Chicago’s alternative nonprofit newsroom

Donate now
  • »
  • Summer Theater & Arts Preview
  • The Pride Issue
  • Latest issue
  • Reader 50
  • Nonprofit Guide
  • En español
  • Contests
  • Reader Store
  • Advertise
Home » Battle Royale

Tag: Battle Royale

a gameshow host with a microphone leans over to talk to a scared-looking man in yellow with his wrists cuffed to a chair
Posted inFilm

Cinema Deathmatch: Round One explores moral-panic entertainment

by Noah Berlatsky June 16, 2022June 20, 2022

Critics sometimes say that films like Running Man and Battle Royale implicate the viewer. When you watch them, you’re supposed to recognize the ickiness of your own enjoyment of uber-violence. But isn’t the ickiness also part of the enjoyment?

Posted inBlogs

Gamer Ninja on playing Fortnite with Drake: ‘That was absolutely incredible’

by Ryan Smith April 11, 2018August 18, 2021

Suburban video-game streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who earns almost $900K a month, has gotten national media exposure after playing with Drake.

Posted inBlogs

The nation’s hottest entertainer right now is a suburban Chicago video-game streamer named Ninja

by Ryan Smith March 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Rapper Drake and NCAA darlings UMBC are among the millions of fans of Tyler Blevins, who’s earning hundreds of thousands of dollars per month playing Fortnite.

Posted inBlogs

‘Round about midnight: Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale

by Ben Sachs April 18, 2012August 19, 2021

Previewing this weekend’s midnight screening of the Japanese cult favorite

Posted inBlogs

A different kind of killer teen

by Miles Raymer June 24, 2008August 19, 2021

The Battle Royale plays the Empty Bottle tonight.

Get the Reader's free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday.

Recent Posts

  • Listen to The Ben Joravsky Show
  • A flexible position on free speech
  • Steve Von Till of Neurosis gets stripped-down and cinematic with his solo material
  • Rethinking concert safety
  • After two years online, historic Chicago house collective the Chosen Few return to Jackson Park for a 30th-anniversary picnic and festival
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Best of Chicago 2021

About the Chicago Reader
Reader Staff
Reader Careers
Freelance Information
Contact Us
Become a member
Donate

Advertise

Find the Paper
Subscribe
Shop the Reader Store
Contests/Giveaways/Promotions

Reader Classifieds

Reader Matches

Chicago Reader Nonprofit Guide

Get our free newsletters

Privacy Policy | Terms of Use

© 2022 Chicago Reader. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic