Most of you know RoboCop as one of those movies -- like Network or The Fifth Element-- that rotates endlessly on late-night cable TV. But buried beneath the shoot-outs, car chases and pre-CGI ...
On July 17, 1987, director Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop hit theaters. The Orion Pictures sci-fi actioner went on to gross $53 million that summer and launched a franchise. The Hollywood Reporter’s ...
In 1987, the sky opened up and we as a people were given one of the greatest films and cinematic characters directly from heaven, RoboCop. The child of screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner ...
In 1987, Paul Verhoeven’s futuristic crime thriller “RoboCop” made its mark with equal parts over-the-top violence and cynical, prescient satire. Now director Jose Padilha’s remake has updated the ...
Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is a classic of ’80s action cinema; many of the things that some fans may call mistakes are actually intentional bits of irony or satire, and that’s a big part of what many ...