(Paul Verhoeven, US 1997, 129 min., 35mm)

On a futuristic Earth that has succumbed to globalization, a group of gung-ho teenagers surrender to propaganda and sign up to fight giant, marauding fire-breathing bugs on a remote planet, only to face far more dangerous and deadly conditions than they expected. Verhoeven’s gory and action-packed adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s novel is also one of contemporary cinema’s great anti-war satires, taking every opportunity to lampoon fascist ideology.