I’d buy that for a dollar! ROBOCOP Screens Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli

“Excuse me. I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.”

ROBOCOP (1987) plays midnights this weekend (July 6th and 7th) at the Tivoli (6350 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO) as part of their Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series.

Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi opus ROBOCOP remains a timely and startling send-up of American violence, media and corporate corruption.  It’s startling mainly because of its format – noisy blockbuster — and like most satires, it embraces what it mocks (violence and non-subtlety).  An enterprise, Omni Consumer Products, plans to gentrify crime-plagued “Old Detroit” and metamorphose it into “Delta City.” After a droid (“the future of law enforcement” / “hot military product”) malfunctions in a board meeting, in the movie’s first big shootout (filled with great dollops of chunky gore), deceased cop Murphy (Peter Weller) is revamped into Robocop, a gun-toting cyborg designed to rid the city of its crime and relieve the burden of an overtaxed police unit once and for all.  In the presence of his former partner Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen), Robocop/Murphy begins to remember his former self and gathers information to hunt down his killer and also his mercenary megacorp creator.

A Facebook invite for the screening can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/186110118875177/

The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO. Admission is a mere $8!

The Tivoli’s website can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

Here’s the Reel Late at the Tivoli Line-up for the next couple of weeks:

July 13-14            AKIRA

July 20-21            YELLOW SUBMARINE