5 For: Hotel Artemis (2018)

A dystopian hotel, a crime gone wrong, and one very dumb movie with a basketball death match.

This week, the Machine delivers five thematically entangled transmissions for Hotel Artemis — from siege thrillers to pop culture-saturated criminals.

WHAT YOU’LL HEAR

• Five thematically related films that echo Hotel Artemis’ dystopian setting, crime-laden plot, or ensemble structure

• A nostalgic riff on The Purge’s original script and its budget-conscious premise

• Safe space shootouts and worldbuilding fatigue in John Wick: Chapter 2

• The politics and pressure-cooker dynamics of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13

• Surfboards, scalpels, and Snake Plissken in Escape from L.A.

• Tarantino fatigue and Disney references in Reservoir Dogs and Hotel Artemis

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Tags: Hotel Artemis, 5 For Theme, Dystopian Crime, Siege Films, John Carpenter, Tarantino, Safe Zone Settings