Now Playing Podcast Presents: The Robocop Retrospective Series

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  • Film Reviews

Now Playing Podcast serves and protects with the RoboCop series, reviewing the films that turned a murdered Detroit police officer into one of science fiction’s most recognizable cyborgs. From Paul Verhoeven’s satirical 1987 classic starring Peter Weller through the sequels and later reinvention, we revisit RoboCop’s mix of action, corporate dystopia, black comedy, and questions about where the man ends and the machine begins. Now Playing Podcast - The Future of Podcasting

Episodes

  1. 02/18/2014

    RoboCop

    In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants...

  2. 02/14/2014

    RoboCop: Prime Directives

    Robocop Series Episode 7 It's been a long road but we have reached the climax of the Robocop: Prime Directives series. Kaydick and Robocable have infiltrated OCP, planning to use their SAINT computer system to spread the human and machine killing Legion virus throughout Delta City. Only Robocop, his son James, and Kaydick's former lover Anne can stop him. After three cheaply made films, is there anything in this final movie to redeem the series, or does it Crash and Burn? Listen to find out!

  3. 02/11/2014

    RoboCop: Prime Directives

    Robocop Series Episode 6 There is a new threat to Delta City, and his name is Kaydick. Having invented Legion, a virus that will destroy both technology and people, Kaydick is ready to annihilate all of humanity, and with RoboCable as his slave bodyguard it may just happen. Can Robocop avoid OCP's Systems Support team, and his own son, long enough to save the city? And can this film give Prime Directives a much-needed Resurrection? Listen to our review of the third Robocop: Prime Directives films to find out!

  4. 02/07/2014

    RoboCop: Prime Directives

    Robocop Series Episode 5 Robocop has been feeling obsolete after a decade of patrolling Delta City, but he's not ready to be shut down yet! When he is framed for a series of destructive acts, actually done by his former police partner, who has also been turned into a cyborg, Robocop must go on the run and hide from OCP and their lethal Systems Support Team. Does the addition of RoboCable double the pleasure of the second Robocop: Prime Directives films, or will the Now playing hosts have a Meltdown? Listen to find out!

  5. 02/04/2014

    RoboCop: Prime Directives

    Thirteen years after the original Robocop, Delta City, considered to be "The Safest Place On Earth!", has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop, Alex Murphy has begun to feel his age. Murphy finds himself nearly...

  6. 01/21/2014

    RoboCop 3

    The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of...

  7. 01/21/2014

    RoboCop 2

    After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As...

  8. 01/14/2014

    RoboCop

    In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime...

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Now Playing Podcast serves and protects with the RoboCop series, reviewing the films that turned a murdered Detroit police officer into one of science fiction’s most recognizable cyborgs. From Paul Verhoeven’s satirical 1987 classic starring Peter Weller through the sequels and later reinvention, we revisit RoboCop’s mix of action, corporate dystopia, black comedy, and questions about where the man ends and the machine begins. Now Playing Podcast - The Future of Podcasting

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