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  1. Oct 3, 2022 · Despite rooting around in dystopian sludge (at times literally), Robocop is not a nihilistic movie or even a cynical one. Though its primary form is scathing satire, it is profoundly...

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    • Nightcrawler (UK only) Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this brilliantly dark take-down of the modern news media. He plays Louis Bloom, a troublingly ambitious video journalist who starts selling crime footage to a local LA TV network.
    • Prisoners. Before he did a marvelous job with the Blade Runner sequel and started to piece together Frank Herbert’s epic novel collection Dune, Denis Villeneuve made this cult classic that’s a lesson on suspense.
    • Annihilation. Devs may have cemented Alex Garland as the king of sci-fi but you can see the blueprint for the who in his previous work Ex Machina (which is also on Netflix) and Annihilation.
    • Creep. Creep is a no-budget horror movie that was made by one of the kings of mumblecore, Mark Duplass, alongside director Patrick Brice.
  2. Jul 14, 2017 · In Robocop, the local community has broken down and escalated into violence as a result of mass unemployment; unfortunately, it also mirrored real-life anxieties at the time.

  3. Feb 13, 2014 · Thanks to enjoyable satire, an intriguing central character, and ultra-violent action, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop became a cult classic film - and an icon of the 1980s science fiction genre. As a result, fans were nervous when it was first announced that Strike Entertainment was set to remake RoboCop with Elite Squad director Jose Padilha at the ...

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  4. Feb 1, 2021 · Like many of its contemporaries, the movie — about a cyborg cop struggling to remember his identity as he takes down a network of nasty criminals — is a cautionary tale of the excesses and...

  5. Jun 29, 2019 · Paul Verhoeven's 1980s cult classic warned us about the future. Let's look back and discuss Robocop's prescient qualities.

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  7. Feb 20, 2024 · In Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 cult classic, Detroit beat cop Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) ends up an involuntary participant in Omni Consumer Products’ cyborg technology testing after losing his life in...

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