The jury's still out on whether director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Total Recall, Showgirls) is a blatantly gung-ho philistine, or a supreme p**s-taker of all things American. But the fact is, this frenzied, futuristic actioner is a hit of humongous proportions. Extraterrestrial bugs have invaded Earth, so Earth has declared war on Bugland. Casper Van Dien plays square-jawed, all-American boy Johnny Rico, who leads a pack of equally meat-headed raw recruits on a mission to kick some insect-ass on
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THE RIGHT STUFF (1984)
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Guts and determination - that's the right stuff. This epic film follows a group of test pilots, played brilliantly by the ensemble cast, first breaking the sound barrier and then on as they switch over to being astronauts. A brilliant look at the US space programme, the Cold War and the media circus that went with it. Acclaimed and rightly so.
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