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‘RoboCop’ #1 Brings RoboCop Back To His Roots
RoboCop #1 Written by Joshua Williamson Art by Carlos Magno Color by Marissa Louise Lettered by Ed Dukeshire Cover by Goni Montes Published by BOOM Studios It would be a reasonable assumption when hearing about a new RoboCop series to imagine that it would be some kind of tie-in to the RoboCop remake that came […] More
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Mondo ‘Robocop’ Posters By Tom Whalen and Kevin Tong
Mondo is releasing these new Robocop posters by artists Tom Whalen and Kevin Tong this Thursday June 12. Tom Whalen Poster (seen above): 12 x 36 screen print, edition of 300. It costs $45. Kevin Tong Posters: 24 x 36 in regular, variant and metal editions. The regular (red) version is an edition of 300 […] More
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Recommended Reading: Mickey Rooney, Tilda Swinton is Not Quite of This World, 47 Dead Films, Ebert on Criticism and more
Tim Doyle was asked by Matt Dye of Blunt Graffix to create a poster for the Bijou Metro’s screening of Robocop! From Doyle- “Robocop is by far one of the most influential films in my little life. I saw it in the theater in 1987 when I was merely 10 years old, and it completely […] More
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #74: Paul Verhoeven Special Part 2
This week we celebrate the career of filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, starting with his stylish erotic thriller The 4th Man, his last Dutch film which gained a cult following for its frank treatment of bisexuality, bizarre visuals, and twisted narrative. After we discuss Flesh + Blood, a medieval anti-romance starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Finally we end […] More
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Appetites: Surveying Paul Verhoeven
The Paul Verhoeven filmography screens at the TIFF Bell Lightbox through April 4th, culminating in a screening of his new “crowdsourced” film, Tricked. Common wisdom dictates that cynicism and sentimentality are carefully linked, if not outright synonymous. In filmic terms, the most comfortable formulation of that argument is to align, for instance, romantic comedies with […] More
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Recommended Reading: Remembering Sid Caesar,The Real Awesomeness of ‘The Lego Movie,’ Alan Moore’s School Daze and more
Clint Eastwood’s 1977 Thank You Letter to Critic Andrew Sarris for ‘Dirty Harry’ Article via IndieWire: “Check out this unearthed 1977 letter from Clint Eastwood to film critic Andrew Sarris, wherein Eastwood thanks Sarris for his Village Voice article on the “Dirty Harry” franchise, titled “Is Harry Too Dirty?” Eastwood gets to expound on the perceived […] More
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Recommended Reading: History of Video Game Movies, Interview with Spike Jonze, History of Robocop and more
The Ugly Behind-the-Scenes History of Video Game Movies “Few Hollywood announcements are treated with such fierce-yet-wounded anticipation as video game adaptations. Full of incredible artistry, instantly-recognizable characters and an increasingly-mature approach to storytelling, you’d be forgiven for thinking gaming is a medium particularly well suited for making the jump to the silver screen. But history […] More
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‘RoboCop’ remake merely forgettable, instead of being an outright misfire
RoboCop Written by Joshua Zetumer & Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner Directed by José Padilha USA, 2014 Paul Verhoeven’s science-fiction films RoboCop and Total Recall take place in different environments and eras, but share a similarly raucous, ramshackle, satiric attitude. These films are products of their time, filled with garishly practical effects and grimy, tactile […] More
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The ‘RoboCop’ remake, though not entirely successful, makes an admirable attempt at re-purposing the concept
RoboCop Written by Joshua Zetumer Directed by José Padilha USA, 2014 The remake of RoboCop is a largely different beast to Paul Verhoeven’s original film, and is all the better for choosing not to be a slavish re-creation minus the trademark ultra-violence. The 2014 take may be less gory and far less cartoonish, but there […] More
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Robocop: Hominem Ex Machina is as Unwanted as the Reboot on Which it’s Based
Robocop: Hominem Ex Machina Writer: Michael Moreci Art: Jason Copland Colours: Juan Manuel Tumburus Letters: Ed Dukeshire Publisher: Boom! Studios Purchase: http://www.boom-studios.com/ Robocop is coming back in a big way this season with a brand new reboot. While many have been rushing to judgement on the movie prior to its release for numerous reasons, that doesn’t […] More
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Hey You Geeks!! Podcast #16: Geek Free-For-All
In episode 16 of the Hey You Geeks podcast we’re digging into what seems like an endless deluge of franchise shakeups and geek-movie news. We’re discussing the Star Wars rewrites, timing shifts in the Batman vs. Superman movie, rumors of Johnny Depp playing a certain Marvel sorcerer, the problems with today’s comics industry and more. After that, […] More
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