Screening in NYC: STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997).

When Starship Troopers was released, the TV spots went heavy on the use of Blur’s ”Song #2″ (Woo-hoo!) and explosions and the Melrose Place prettiness of its cast.   I remember seeing those ads.  I remember how the marketing went overboard to make Starship Troopers look like, for example, Independence Day, from the year before, the kind of hooting-and-hollering [...]

31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #9: ANTS (1977).

  Ants is a movie from 1977 that is not to be confused with Empire Of The Ants from the same year, because that kind of a mistake would be just terrible to make, of course.  It’s hard to believe that one year could see the release of two separate movies about an invasion of [...]