RoboCop 3

"...Jill Hennessy, CCH Pounder and Remy Ryan. We've been RoboCopped! Again. Delayed for quite a while due to the..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

RoboCop

The überviolent 1987 action film gets a pointless reboot.

"...The pointless reboot RoboCop is a castrated version of Paul Verhoeven’s grim, überviolent..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

RoboCop Is Alive and Well and Kicking Ass Onstage

Eighties blockbusters and a 'cardboard aesthetic' courtesy of the Old Murder House Theatre

"...back to life as a depersonalized, metal-plated cyborg called RoboCop that proceeds to wreak turbo-powered justice on the criminal..."

June 17, 2011 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

RoboCop

Half man and half machine, but fully lethal, this RoboCop is indestructible.

"...Half man and half machine, but fully lethal, this RoboCop is indestructible. But the human part of him wants..."

July 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Child's Play

Everyone's favorite homicidal doll is back

"...straight on the same recycling pile as that knock-off RoboCop we all agreed never to talk about again...."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

This mad, muzzle-flash burst of ultraviolence from Brazil earned the director a shot at helming Hollywood's RoboCop reboot.

"...Brazilian director Padilha was tapped to helm the much-anticipated RoboCop remake on the strength of this mad, muzzle-flashy burst..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flaming Ears

"...from the sex club, she is befriended by Volley's Robocop-like girlfriend Nun (co-director Scheirl). The crewcut Nun is clothed..."

July 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Robotrix

"...as "Charlie's Angels meets The Terminator" and "a Chinese Robocop invested with the spirit of Russ Meyer." Libidinous scientists..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Highway Patrolman

"...Jr. and Malena Doria. This Highway Patrolman is no Robocop or Mad Max. In fact, the movie takes the..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ripley – Believe It or Not – on Ice

Old Murder House Theatre takes the stage at Chaparral Ice

"...Hey, remember those crazy kids from the Old Murder..."

Nov. 1, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Scanlines

"...ROBOCOP..."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature

Son of the Graphics Giveaway

Just as the success of the first X-Men film has spawned a sequel, so has Free Comic Book Day, and on May 3, 2003, this promotional event for graphic literature -- or funny books, if you will -- will give away more millions of comics about everything from guys in tights trying to save the world to schlubs in offices trying to hold onto their jobs.

"...day after the X-Gang's second movie debut: Batman, Archie, Robocop, Donald Duck, and the Transformers! These fantastic figures are..."

May 2, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mad God

Phil Tippett's stop motion masterpiece of depravity and the divine

"...stop motion maestro Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, RoboCop, Dragonslayer, Starship Troopers) has been handcrafting a nightmare. One..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

The trailblazers fighting sexism and gravity in the film industry

"...praise stuntwomen – Anne Fletcher (Step Up), Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop), and Paul Feig (Spy) – but many of the..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

You Don't Nomi

Should you re-assess Showgirls? No, but that's not what's happening here?

"...wrote sleaze. Verhoeven, coming off the blockbuster trifecta of RoboCop, Total Recall, and Basic Instinct, started to loose his..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Mad Dreams and Monsters

Inside the mind of stop motion wizard Phil Tippett

"...in the 1980s and 1990s: the Star Wars films, RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Dragonheart. Alongside effects wizards Dennis Muren, Ken..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Rooster Teeth Became an Online Phenomenon

9.5 million YouTube subscribers can’t be wrong

"...of near-future speculative fiction. "You go back and watch Robocop, and they have this device they use to track..."

May 11, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Transformers: The Last Knight

Stick meet dead horse

"...at the blatant rips from other sci-fi films like Robocop and, I kid you not, Godzilla’s own archenemy, Ghidorah,..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Elle

Riveting yet perplexing, this psychological thriller is a stunner

"...achieving contentious and/or dubious successes with such films as RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, and Starship Troopers, the..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Non-Frenzied Feeding of a Large Squalus

The movie Jaws, performed live by Old Murder House Theater!

"...world live-action, goofy-propped, over-the-top renditions of Jurassic Park, Aliens, Robocop, and more. They're back again, hallelujah, this time performing..."

July 1, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chappie

Impeccable visual effects don't counteract the film's lackluster emotional affect

"...as strange beyond the plot’s plain debt to both RoboCop and Short Circuit (or rather, that one scene in..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Star Trek reboot may be overly familiar, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun.

"...science officer, played by Alice Eve, to spar with; RoboCop (er, Peter Weller, still minus a human heart) comes..."

May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Film Flam

Old Murder House's dino fever, 'Do Over,' and casting calls

"...on such Eighties classics as Back to the Future, RoboCop, and Aliens (that last one was set at an..."

March 21, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Be Kind Rewind

Michel Gondry's latest mind warp, which stars Jack Black and Mos Def, is long on vision and heart but short on narrative coherence.

"...in the film’s peculiar parlance – of blockbusters like RoboCop and Rush Hour. After securing a helpmate named Alma..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

"...the T-1, which looks as though it might give RoboCop’s ED-209 a run for its money). Fittingly, T3 arrives..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...his hands full with productions like Paul Verhoeven's hyperviolent Robocop:..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Hollow Man

"...man who gave us both The Fourth Man and Robocop. (And yes, I hear you at the back: Showgirls,..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Payback

"...chase around in. It's not exactly the Detroit of Robocop or Carpenter's New York escape, but Payback's milieu is..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Starship Troopers

In this spectacle, lethal insects from outer space do battle with student soldiers. When in Austin recently, Oliver Stone called Starship Troopers "One of the best war films in recent years."

"...formula that worked so well for them in 1987's Robocop: wall to wall blood `n' guts laced with surprisingly..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Very Special Frasier at We Luv Video

130 animators come together for a tribute to the sitcom

"...video collage projects like Star Wars Uncut and Our RoboCop Remake, where fans and filmmakers would take a scene..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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