DVD OF THE MONTH ROBOCOP
I’ll be honest with you; I’m getting pretty tired of remakes, reboots
and re-imaginings. With one or two exceptions, I’m pretty sure that those hundreds of millions of dollars could be used to make something fresh, imaginative and (gulp) challenging even. Tere’s certainly enough talent about, but people love nostalgia and the familiar, so Hollywood pumps them out and you pay to see them. Consequently, here’s what you deserve: a shinier, louder and little- bit-shitter Robocop. Enjoy it. You’ve earned it. Having said all that though, it’s actually pretty good - it’s just not AS good, and you can’t remake a film without inviting comparison to the original. It’s a
JUNEFILM RELEASES
06 June Cheap Trills Comedy about rich people getting poor people to humiliate themselves for money. When you condense it like that, it sounds like working at Outline. Without the money. And it’s funny.
13 JuneOculusHorror film starring Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) as she tries to prove her brother’s innocence of murder, and that supernatural forces are to blame. As defences go, I suppose it’s better than “I thought she was next to me in bed and I was so scared I fired through the bathroom door.”
20 June 3 Days to KillTe twatishly moniker-ed McG directs this season’s latest CIA- man-in-a-European-city action-thriller. Tis time it’s Costner, this time he’s in Paris; yes, stuff explodes, yes, you’ve seen it all before. Someone take Luc Besson’s pen away until he learns.
27 June ChefLol-com directed by and starring Jon Favreau and featuring Robert Downey Jnr, Sofia Vergara, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johanssen and John Leguizamo among others. All you need to know is it’s about a chef and you will laugh. Lots. Out loud. Smiley
JUNEDVD ROUNDUP
02 June Dallas Buyers ClubMatthew McCounaghaghaghy deservedly wins the Best Actor Oscar as a skinny arsehole making thousands from AIDS victims whilst simultaneously tolerating Jared Leto. I think he earned it. Seriously, though, it’s an exceptional film. Seriously. Sar-slar.
07 June True Blood: Season 6Te first season of True Blood was immense fun. It was a sanguinary, after-dark feast for the exiled and extraordinary in us all. Te second was OK. Te third sucked in all the wrong ways, and it’s been downhill from there. Still, better than the books, though.
16 June House of Cards: Season 2I tell you what: when Scorsese is good, fuck me he’s good. If he’s having fun, we’re all having fun, and for my money Marty hasn’t had this much fun in years. Tere’s something unbridled about this debauched, deregulated and DiCaprioed immorality tale. Tere’s no role-models here, but the joy pisses from every frame.
30 June Non StopSomething bad might happen to attractive innocent people if Liam Neeson’s highly trained (maybe ex-) government operative doesn’t do something about it. I think we’ve been here before, and I wonder if *all* the rest of Neeson’s films will be named after failed energy drinks. I hope not, because he’s worth so much more. Jay Freeman
standard action blockbuster by numbers for the main part, but its stellar cast is on top form and it does, at least, try to capture some of the essence of Verhoeven’s 1987 original. But where that was gritty, satirical and subversive, this comes over as polished, preachy and insincere. It’s a bit of a Robocop- out, you might say, if you were extremely droll and witty. It’s not much cop, you’d probably add. In one of the more impressive scenes from this reboot we’re shocked to see just how little cop is left in Robocop, that being pretty much just his head and a bit of offal. And that, right there, is a lovely little metaphor for this remake: it’s got the original’s face, some of its guts, but its balls are nowhere to be seen. Jay Freeman
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