What’s happened to the American action film? As Hollywood filmmakers have found the digital means to create bigger and more elaborate special effects, they seem to have forgotten what really makes an ...

Not long after RoboCop saved Trunetta Roach's hometown, which was in 1987, the Detroiter found herself on vacation in Florida. Chatting with a stranger there, she told me in an email, she mentioned ...

Intensely philosophical, this “RoboCop” reboot is drama wrapped within a futuristic science-fiction morality tale. Sometime soon citizens of the crime-ridden U.S. are unwilling to accept computerized ...

The 80s were a decade when criminals were bad, authorities were right, and happy endings were all but assured. After Watergate and a decade of moral ambiguity in the 70s (I tend to think of Dog Day ...