YouTube HOF: Necessary Remakes
The “update” of the 1987 sci-fi satire RoboCop hits theaters today, and the jury’s still out (to put it politely) on whether it’s worth your time. But in a day and age when nearly everything filling up...
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Career Arc: Paul Verhoeven
A remake of the 1987 sci-fi movie RoboCop opens this week, nearly a decade after it was first announced. The director is the talented Brazilian action auteur José Padilha, who made the Elite Squad...
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(Re)Made for Love
Valentine’s Day is intermittently a big deal to the movie industry. The more aligned February 14 is with a Wednesday or a weekend, the crazier it gets. But for every Nicholas Sparks bull’s-eye, there’s...
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Box Office Top Five: Everything’s Still Awesome for ‘The Lego Movie’
1. The Lego Movie, $48.8 million (last week: no. 1; $129.1 million cumulative) Around now is when we start staking out the horizon to see when the next big children’s movie is coming to unseat whatever...
View ArticleAll Man, All Machine, All Cop: The Enhanced Personhood of ‘RoboCop’
The Futurist is a periodic dispatch from the front lines of tomorrow — a gleefully wigged-out examination of science, science fiction, technology, culture, and all their lunatic fringes. To paraphrase...
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Box Office Top Five: ‘Lego’ Forever
1. The Lego Movie, $31.45 million (last week: no. 1; $183.2 million cumulative) Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks’s Crazy-Good Toy Odyssey is on top for the third consecutive week, also earning the stat...
View ArticleAt Long Last, Detroit Gets Its RoboCop Statue
More than a year after crowd-sourcing raised $67,436 on Kickstarter (on a $50,000 goal), Detroit’s 10-foot bronze monument to RoboCop is being unveiled. It’s part of an entire RoboCop Day in the city,...
View ArticleVideo on Demand Report: C’mon, Which ‘RoboCop’ Do You REALLY Want to Watch...
The Headliner RoboCop When I was recently lucky enough to guest on this site’s very own Girls in Hoodies podcast, I cited RoboCop as a high-water mark for the genre of “super-violent action movies,”...
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Always Give the Naked Man Your Motorcycle, and Other Lessons From Action Movies
A happy moment in my life was when I watched Mortal Kombat for the first time with my sons. They were 6 years old, and I will freely admit that’s maybe a little too young to watch Mortal Kombat. I will...
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