Robocop

Scene of the Week: RoboCop 2

Say what you will about the followup to Paul Verhoeven’s groundbreaking classic, RoboCop, but as a teenager back in 1990 I could not wait for RoboCop to return in RoboCop 2! And I can honestly say...

The Essentials: Bad Bosses

“All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton Corporations have a bad reputation. Most people see corporations as heartless entities that care only about their profits and not the employees who...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Robocop

The cinematic marvel that was 1987’s Robocop was most definitely born from the successes of both Blade Runner and The Terminator, but it also was a strange sort of hybrid film that partially existed out of...

The Essentials: 1987 Action

The year is 1987. Ronald Reagan is at the tail end of his run as the President of the United States. On the other side of the pond, Margaret Thatcher won a third term as the British...

Hall of Fame: Robocop

In the summer of 1987 the world was introduced to RoboCop. The film that introduced us to the character, appropriately titled RoboCop, was an instant classic. RoboCop was also a commercial and critical success. Not just...

Fan Theories That Kinda/Sorta Work

One of the great things about movies is the way that we can all be watching the same film but be “seeing” them in completely different ways. In fact, people love to talk about how they...

Scene of the Week: Hell’s Club

I thought I’d do a little something different this week with our Scene of the Week and take a look at a YouTube video that went viral a few weeks back. It is a movie mash...