What do you get when you combine one of the best science fiction novelists of all time with a 1990s low-budget action flick? If your guess is one of the worst science fiction movies of all time, you ...

Gary Graham appeared at a local sci-fi convention a few years back. I kept joking I was going to show up for the Q&A session and do nothing but ask Robot Jox questions until he had security throw me ...

Though not exactly horror, Stuart Gordon originally directed this 1989 rock ’em sock ’em robots flick for Charles Band’s Empire Pictures before they went bankrupt during the production. Two years ...

The special effects in Robot Jox made it difficult for me to concentrate on the film’s story. Were they innovative and complex – like those featured in the Star Wars trilogy? No. Were they realistic ...

I’ve been excited for Shawn Levy’s robot-boxing movie, Real Steel, ever since Levy said of the project, “In a movie filled with these mechanical warriors, at its core ‘Real Steel’ is an incredibly ...

50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man ...

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along come something new and fresh to reaffirm your faith in human mediocrity. “Robot Jox,” now at the Westview, is just such an inanity, a live-action Saturday ...