This week on Remainders, we celebrate our 50th episode in style with the 1987 satirical classic, RoboCop. The story of Alex Murphy, a Detroit cop who is executed only to be remade by corporate America as the ultimate police enforcer. Paul Verhoeven\u2019s action movie could be viewed as just a seminal piece of 80s action filmmaking, but that would still be selling it short. RoboCop builds upon ideas of capitalism, creeping fascism, and media propaganda in a way that very few movies can manage. I\u2019d buy that for a dollar!
Other topics include Darren\u2019s work at the When We Were Young festival, Halloween movies, the Music Box Theatre\u2019s 24-hour horror festival, 1980\u2019s Alligator and other creature features, Scorsese and first impressions of Killers of the Flower Moon, and upcoming TLB and Plain White T\u2019s shows.
Songs of the Week
Wishes by Beach House
Looking For The Magic by The Dwight Twilley Band