ON DEMAND PICKS
July 9, 2009
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ROBOCOP 2
(Comcast Free Movies) High body count and amusing social satire, as RoboCop takes on a robokiller, but far less involving than the original. Peter Weller’s RoboCop still suggests walking armor and looks like an oil slick on steroids. But the film itself is robotic, without the dark moody perversity of the first outing. With all its big pieces of metal crashing around, this one plays like a junkyard gone nutzoid. (R; runs through July 10)
STEEL CITY
(Showtime on Comcast) A Midwestern kid (Thomas Guiry) tries to grow up while dealing with the father (John Heard) who abandoned him. Brian Jun’s debut feature is a no-budget heartland drama that walks the thin line between kitchen-sink realism and kitchen-sink tedium, but it portrays its working-class characters with refreshing and unvarnished honesty. Costarring America Ferrera and Raymond J. Barry. (R; runs through July 10)
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