For the second-straight sequel, the “RoboCop” franchise shows it’s impossible for others to re-create the specific flavor of satire mastered by Verhoeven, Neumeier and Miner.
Thanks to bad timing with a writers’ strike, “RoboCop’s” Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner didn’t return for the sequel (their work would be sort of
“RoboCop” (1987) is a marvel of satirical balance. Normally, I do not get my laughs from violence, but somehow the ingenious (and unfortunately timeless) screenplay
“Curse of the Stone Hand” (1965) concerns an A-frame Kentish mansion with a curse spanning two successive families of inhabitants. Yes, there is a stone
“Hackers” (1995) is perhaps a movie you had to grow up with in order to enjoy. I have a friend who has seen it 20
At one point in “Sabrina” (1954), Linus Larrabee (Humphrey Bogart) asks Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) to sing her song in French for him again, slower.
Have Kleenex ready, cuz I mean, damn. In “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” (2024), the “S” doesn’t stand for Superman, nor is it an alien
“Psycho” (1998) gets the wrath among near beat-for-beat remakes of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, but there are many candidates for worst remake of his work. “Shadow
Before the director duo of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods established themselves as top-shelf horror helmers with 2024’s “Heretic,” they demonstrated their genre bona fides
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” (2011) possesses two endearing qualities. (Three if you count the title.) The first is the prowess in visual storytelling