It’s Die Hard in a dystopia! For our penultimate episode, this week we’re hopping on our lawmasters and cruising into Mega City One, as we discuss the 2012 version of DREDD aka DREDD 3-D!

In the futuristic crime-ridden dystopia of Mega City One, roving patrols of ‘Judges’ are permitted to dispense on-the-spot justice with the power of judge, jury and executioner. In this context, the hard-bitten, highly experienced Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is reluctantly partnered with rookie candidate Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), who has psychic abilities due to a genetic mutation. In the process of investigating a triple homicide in the towering high-rise building known as Peach Trees, the two Judges incur the wrath of the culprit – ferocious and powerful local gangster MaMa (Lena Headey) – who seals off the building and declares war on the pair of them, meaning that the two vastly outnumbered Judges must use all their skills and guile to survive an onslaught of attacks from the building’s seemingly infinite number of marauding criminals. 

The boys put this awesome movie in its full context by discussing the entire history of the Dredd character and it’s life across popular culture (including the 1995 Stallone movie version). They go deep on this icon figure’s complex appeal, and what this adaptation got so right, and what the distributors got so wrong (remember the 3-D craze?! Ah…good times) in translating this challenging source material to the silver screen at the second attempt. The guys hand out awards in a hotly contested edition of the ‘Die Hard Oscars’ and wrap things up with a challenging edition of the ‘Double Jeopardy’ Trivia Quiz. But will Liam pass or fail?! 

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqqgrUna28w

At the time of release, DREDD is streaming on Tubi and Vix and is available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV/iTunes, YouTube, Fandango and all the usual platforms! It is also available on physical media!

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