Among all the gritty action movies of the 1980s that featured big men with big muscles, a new hero emerged in 1987 to take the world by storm. Part man, part machine, and all cop, he was the saving ...

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 ...

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 ...

I don’t think anyone was exactly clamoring for a remake of the surprise hit of 1987, “RoboCop.” But given the ways of Hollywood these days, a remake was probably inevitable. And as bad ideas go, we’re ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook And if you want to compare what works about it to what doesn’t work about its dud of a remake, you ...

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 ...