On July 17, 1987, director Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi actioner hit theaters. By Duane Byrge On July 17, 1987, director Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop hit theaters. The Orion Pictures sci-fi actioner went on to ...

1987’s RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven gives his brutally honest take on Sony‘s 2014 remake. “The problem there, I felt, was that he was really aware that he lost all his legs and arms. He knows it ...

RoboCop (2014) is a sci-fi action film directed by José Padilha, serving as a remake of the 1987 classic. The movie explores the story of Alex Murphy (played by Joel Kinnaman), a Detroit cop who is ...

RoboCop is a weird, wild flick, so much so that one of its stranger moments convinced a major film critic that a reel from ...

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 ...

Paul Verhoeven's ruthless 1987 sci-fi satire has been broken down, reconfigured and souped up for this flashy remake starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton from Jose Padilha, director ...

Robocop begins with a lovely establishing shot of futuristic “Old Detroit” at twilight. The camera soars across a body of water (presumably the Detroit River) and pushes in towards the city. The ...

RoboCop, in Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film, was originally supposed to drive around in a custom built vehicle, like Batman does. It had several nicknames: "Robo-Car," "Robo-Mobile" and "Turbo-Car." A ...

Director José Padilha’s long-delayed RoboCop reboot has arrived, and it’s neither an unalloyed (see what I did there?) triumph nor the travesty that partisans of Paul Verhoeven’s subversive Reagan-era ...

Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is a classic of ’80s action cinema; many of the things that some fans may call mistakes are actually intentional bits of irony or satire, and that’s a big part of what many ...