Not long after RoboCop saved Trunetta Roach's hometown, which was in 1987, the Detroiter found herself on vacation in Florida. Chatting with a stranger there, she told me in an email, she mentioned ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. The production of the original RoboCop film faced numerous ...

Jon Holmes is an English writer and actor. His films have been showcased across the world via prestigious film festivals, with his short comedy, "Seeking Julie Anne Moore Type", to be released in 2023 ...

Neill Blomkamp has been linked to a number of in-development projects with renowned sci-fi film franchises over the years, including Aliens, Halo, and RoboCop. Blomkamp addressed the latter in a new ...

Dallas City Hall's look in the 1987 sci-fi thriller "RoboCop." (Orion Pictures Corp.) In 1987, the idea of a cybernetic crime enforcer sounded like a dystopian pipe dream. Fast forward to AI-crazy ...

Late last year, Amazon Studios acquired the extensive film and TV catalogue of legendary Hollywood studio MGM as part of a massive $8.5 billion deal, and it looks like plans are now in place to ...

The release of science fiction film RoboCop on July 17, 1987, was the start of a slow ascent to cult status. It took audiences a while to understand the film's complexity – after all, the title would ...

Early 80s action cinema was typified by the ultimate lone hero, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), who quickly developed from a persecuted Vietnam vet in First Blood to an unstoppable revenge machine in ...

Jonathan Fuge is a writer and editor at MovieWeb. A Film Studies graduate and all-round movie lover, he has written for a variety of different entertainment websites before finding a home at MovieWeb.

RoboCop (1987) prioritized social commentary and dark satire through exaggerated violence and villainous motivations. The 2014 RoboCop reboot failed by taking itself too seriously and ignoring what ...

Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film "RoboCop" is one of the most violent, bullet-riddled, neck-stabbing, genital-shooting, entrance-wound-making, thug-mutating, CEO-murdering movies ever made. Although made as ...

RoboCop was among a group of projects that Amazon is looking to develop after its aquisition of MGM in 2022. At the time, it was reported that RoboCop, Stargate, Legally Blonde, Fame, Barbershop, The ...