RoboCop

‘RoboDoc’ (2023) has one directive: Go in-depth on 1987’s ‘RoboCop’

Thanks to crowd funding and documentary makers’ better sense of the size of their potential audience, we’re getting in-depth docs on classic entertainment like never

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‘RoboCop’ (2014) drops the satire for slick, familiar sci-fi

“RoboCop” (2014) is the definition of a thankless task. Director Jose Padilha and writer Joshua Zetumer do a workmanlike job but aren’t able to make

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‘RoboCop’ returns to factory settings with ‘Prime Directives’ (2001)

TV has delivered some hidden gems in major SF franchises, like “Total Recall 2070” (1999) and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” (2008-09). In brief flashes,

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Hero further decreases in stature with ‘RoboCop’ TV series (1994)

Sometimes I think the writers’ (Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner) contributions to “RoboCop” (1987) are underrated in relation to the deafening praise lavished on director

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‘RoboCop 3’ (1993) makes the violent action saga safe for kids

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.

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‘RoboCop 2’ (1990) bursts with ideas, almost to the breaking point

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

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Pitch-dark satirical humor powers ‘RoboCop’ (1987)

“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

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