NEW YORK – One doesn’t envy Jose Padilha the task of remaking ‘RoboCop,’ the 1987 schlock-art sensation that introduced the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven to American audiences. For one thing, the ...
When the original “RoboCop” was released in 1987, the notion of a half-man/half-machine law enforcer was so far-fetched that the movie functioned as a satire of action films and a critique of urban ...
If the 80's was the decade of excess, then no film put a mirror up to society more so than the low budgeted, 1987 sci-fi hit RoboCop. Crime has taken a hold of the city of Detroit and is slowly ...