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Alex Wolff, Robin De Jesus, and Greta Lee in Hairbrained.
My review of Hairbrained, Billy Kent's comedy starring Alex Wolff and Brendan Fraser as college freshmen aged 13 and 41, respectively, is up on The Dissolve today.
RoboCop '14 & RoboCop '87. The original has more gestural flair, and so does the movie he's in.
Thanks to Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson for having me on the Voice Film Club podcast this week to talk RoboCop, and to listen in rapt mostly-silence while they discuss Vampire Academy. I've not seen the latter but I certainly will, based on the impression HAHAHAHAHAHAjokes it made on Amy and Alan.
You can hear the episode here. I can't believe I forgot to plug the good RoboCop remake.
I saw José Padilha's new remake of Paul Verhoeven's classic sci-fi satire RoboCop the other night. It reminded me of what it feels like when someone with a pleasantly melodic voice covers a song by Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan: It's technically "better" in all the ways that don't matter, and worse in all the ways that count.
I'll be discussing the picture later this week in the first of a series of posts I'm going to be writing for the my pal Linda Holmes over at NPR's Monkey See about... remakes! But first, this little ditty for my man Alan Scherstuhl at the Village Voice, about how the brilliant animator and visual effects artist Phil Tippett created my favorite performance in the 1987 RoboCop: the dysfunctional robot ED-209.
UPDATE: A reader located and sent me a link to the Starlog magazine photo I reference in the piece. And that reader turned out to be Rolling Stone senior writer Brian Hiatt, whose stuff I've been reading for years. "Pretty neat," as patrolman Alex Murphy might say.
You messed with the wrong cybernetic lawman, Mr. Pocket Square.
My review of Babak Najafi's Snabba Cash II, the middle chapter of a Swedish crime trilogy, is up today on The Dissolve.
Haale Gafori and Ali Suliman in a surreal film inspired by the experiences of Hani Zurob.
My review of Mars at Sunrise, documentarian Jessica Habie's fictionalized account of Palestinian artist Hani Zurob's imprisonment, is up today at The Dissolve.
Flame-Spitting Revolver and Craig Fairbrass co-star in The Outsider.
I had some fun reviewing the dreary revenge/action pic The Outsider, starring a burly Brit with the awesome name of Craig Fairbrass, for The Dissolve.
NOT PICTURED: James Caan, Jason Patric, Shannon "American Pie" Elizabeth.
No one asked the chicken how he feels about all this.
With this review of The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, I am honored to begin contributing to The Dissolve, the best movie site on the Internet. I'm not even that much of a bar-food type or any kind of a foodie. My wheelhouse is broader than a dame, a moll, and a skirt all standing three abreast, is all. Seriously. It costs a fortune to heat this place.
In They Live, special Wayfarers reveal the subtext of the industrialized world.
It's just a capsule review, but any excuse to revisit this terrific low-budget, high-concept sci-fi flick is a good one. I prefer this over more beloved John Carpenter flicks like The Thing and Escape from New York.
