On July 17, 1987, director Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi actioner hit theaters. By Duane Byrge On July 17, 1987, director Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop hit theaters. The Orion Pictures sci-fi actioner went on to ...

What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction — in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond — to see how storytellers and ...

Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is a classic of ’80s action cinema; many of the things that some fans may call mistakes are actually intentional bits of irony or satire, and that’s a big part of what many ...

See, even in the future Detroit sucks. Robocop tells the story of average “good guy” cop who gets transferred to the city from hell. In this version of Detroit, the city has become plagued with crime ...