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Preview of RoboCop: Citizens Arrest #4

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RoboCop: Citizens Arrest #4 hits comic book shops this Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here courtesy of Boom! Studios; check it out… OCP announces their plan to reform the Ruins into a new neighborhood called the Plateau, as well as the devastating methods they plan to use. […]

Preview of RoboCop: Citizens Arrest #3

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Boom! Studios releases RoboCop: Citizens Arrest #3 this coming Wednesday; take a look at a preview of the issue here… When Alex Murphy, the original RoboCop, appears to side against OCP, news reports appear that call into question if he’s a risk to the public…and if OCP needs to take drastic measures. RoboCop: Citizens Arrest #3 […]

RoboCop returns to comics with Citizens Arrest, check out a preview here

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RoboCop returns to comic books this coming Wednesday courtesy of Boom! Studios, which launches the new series RoboCop: Citizens Arrest. Check out a preview of the first issue here… Brian Wood, the visionary writer behind DMZ and Briggs Land, and Jorge Coelho (Venom, Rocket Raccoon) present a provocative vision of a future where justice is […]

A direct sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is in development

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Franchise retcon is all the rage at the moment; Shane Black is doing it with The Predator, and the next installment of the Terminator franchise will erase Rise of the Machine onwards. So it comes as little surprise that another iconic 80s movie will be having its memory wiped with the news that RoboCop could […]

RoboCop returns to comic books courtesy of Boom! Studios

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Boom! Studios has announced that it is bringing RoboCop back to the world of comic books with the new series RoboCop: Citizens Arrest from writer Brian Wood (DMZ) and artist Jorge Coelho (Venom), which takes place 30 years after the events of Paul Verhoeven’s 80s classic. “RoboCop remains a favorite film of mine, and was […]

30 Years Back: Celebrating the Cinematic Delights of 1987

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Tom Jolliffe celebrates the cinematic delights of 1987… The 80’s mark a special period in cinema for me. It’s predominantly an age thing. I grew up throughout the 80’s, soaking in some fantastic films. It was a rising golden age of blockbusters which took the foundations of what guys like Spielberg and Lucas launched in […]

The Top 10 Greatest ZX Spectrum Tunes Ever!

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Going through the Top 100 Your Sinclair games [follow the countdown here] I’ve become aware of the rather brilliant – and also dire – tunes that were designed around the games – some hidden amongst levels, but most placed in a prominent spot as the game’s main theme. Not wanting to be overly biased I strolled along […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #94 – RoboCop

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Arriving at Number #94 and we hit one of the first crimes in this Your Sinclair Top 100 as we find Murphy upholding the law and searching for justice in one of the greatest movie tie-in games on the ZX Spectrum.  We’ve arrived – already […]

Die Hard Rebooted: 10 Other Franchise Reboots That Failed to Launch

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Luke Owen looks at the failed franchise reboots… Rebooting a franchise isn’t just an idea anymore, it’s a formula. If you have a pre-existing franchise with a pre-existing audience, reboot it. And then if that doesn’t work, just reboot it again. We live in a world where we have three different attempts at creating a sustaining […]