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 ...
If anyone was under the impression that Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 “RoboCop” was a vision of the future, Jose Padilha’s pumped-up, cleaned-up update makes it clear that this sci-fi concept merely holds a ...
RoboCop is a weird, wild flick, so much so that one of its stranger moments convinced a major film critic that a reel from ...
What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction — in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond — to see how storytellers and ...
See, even in the future Detroit sucks. Robocop tells the story of average “good guy” cop who gets transferred to the city from hell. In this version of Detroit, the city has become plagued with crime ...
Hey, look at this week’s big new films!: “About Last Night”... “Endless Love”... “RoboCop”.... Were the last three decades merely a dream? If they were, I surely would have left my waking self a note ...
What’s happened to the American action film? As Hollywood filmmakers have found the digital means to create bigger and more elaborate special effects, they seem to have forgotten what really makes an ...