In fact, most fans of 80s media tend to view remakes as shameless cash grabs that could never hope to measure up to their 80s ...
In the mid-’80s, the decline of Rust Belt cities was a big narrative in many movies. None were quite as over the top as RoboCop, set in the ‘80s poster-child for crime and decay, Detroit. Crime was ...
When any movie is released, it first and foremost has a goal to be successful in the moment. This often means making money at the box office, but after that another goal is to stand the test of time ...
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 ...