It's been a busy few weeks for Officer Alex Murphy. First, citizens of Detroit have been lobbying hard for the city to erect a "RoboCop" statue (much to the chargin of mayor Dave Bing), and now comes ...
There is a lot to like in the first trailer for the RoboCop remake, although the character now has a slightly less interesting origin story. Gone is Peter Weller getting shot to pieces and in its ...
The original 1987 "RoboCop," Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's first Hollywood film, isn't so much a movie to revere as a bit of brutalism to behold. It had a grim comic vibe, satirizing the savagery of ...
It doesn’t feature iPhones, Twitter or an Internet, and yet Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop remains perhaps the most prescient sci-fi effort of the past thirty years — a work from 1987 whose continuing ...
Remaking 1987's “RoboCop” was not a good idea. The original was so good it broke out of its silly premise to become a piece of American cultural iconography.
Twenty-seven years ago, director Paul Verhoeven and company gave us the original Robocop, which gained cult status as an action movie with a sardonic wit and a lot of things to say about privatization ...