1987’s RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven gives his brutally honest take on Sony‘s 2014 remake. “The problem there, I felt, was that he was really aware that he lost all his legs and arms. He knows it ...

The original 1987 "RoboCop," Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's first Hollywood film, isn't so much a movie to revere as a bit of brutalism to behold. It had a grim comic vibe, satirizing the savagery of ...

Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 “RoboCop” is a perfect blend of satire, sci-fi and dark comedy. Among numerous moments of great violence – the future Detroit it depicted is an extreme place indeed – it managed ...

This new version of Robocop (out now on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital) shares a lot of things with the 1987 original: title, plot, corporate bad guys and Detroit setting. And yet, Brazilian director José ...

In his spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Leone surrounded Clint Eastwood’s tall, monotone killer with extroverts and comic grotesques who kept the audience primed for action and made his antihero look ...

Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi action movie RoboCop (1987) is a famous satire of the excess and greed of the Reagan era. José Padilha’s 2014 reboot of RoboCop (in theaters on Wednesday) is also a critique of ...

Paul Verhoeven's ruthless 1987 sci-fi satire has been broken down, reconfigured and souped up for this flashy remake starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton from Jose Padilha, director ...

“District 9” and “Elysium” director Neill Blomkamp has signed on to direct MGM’s “RoboCop Returns,” a sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 cyberpunk classic (via Deadline). Original screenwriters Edward ...

Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer — the closest thing to an all-Beyoncé Destiny’s Child we’re ever going to get — play three newly single thirtysomething women in need of a self-esteem boost ...