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Starship Troopers

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Attributes

USA | 1997 | 124’ | 18 | Paul Verhoeven

Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside

In the distant future, the Earth is at war with a race of giant alien insects. A military unit is sent to take the war to the Bugs, a ruthless enemy with only one mission: survival of the species no matter the cost. A bombastic satire on fascism from the creator of Robocop that, when originally released, was so close-to-the-bone that many missed the irony, but which has become more resonant as time marches on.

Slime Mother Cinema

From cult classics to recent releases, spanning horror, sci-fi, romance and documentary, this selection of films, chosen in collaboration with artist Abi Palmer, offers different ways of seeing the world. All tickets for the Slime Mother Cinema series are at the discounted price of £5 plus booking fee. Use code SLIME5.

Chosen in collaboration with artist Abi Palmer, this film is part of Slime Mother Cinema, a selection of cult classics and recent releases, spanning horror, sci-fi, romance and documentary that offer different ways of seeing the world. All tickets in this season are at the discounted price of £5 plus booking fee. Use code SLIME5. For more films in this season visit Chapter | Slime Mother.

What people are saying

“Only an outsider like Verhoeven could have made films that overtly criticised the knuckleheaded excesses of 1980s and 90s American action cinema, yet somehow did a better job of delivering the era’s trademark trashy bombast than Hollywood itself.”

—Ben Child, The Guardian

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