“Open your mind!” 35 years of Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall” (1990)…

******TURBINIUM-RICH SPOILERS!****** It was on a June day in 1990 when my sister and I attended a matinee screening of “Total Recall” on opening weekend at yet another in a long line of multiplexes that no longer exist. As fans of director Paul Verhoeven‘s “Robocop,” we looked forward to the Dutch filmmaker’s latest American opus….

1987’s “Robocop” packs an even more powerful punch today…

******CYBERNETIC SPOILERS!****** I remember going to see “Robocop” theatrically back in the summer of 1987. Judging from its exploitation flick title, my expectations were middling, but enough to get me into a theater (in those days, we didn’t need much of a push to go to the movies, since the average home TV screen was…