No NPH? No rental. Perhaps the makers of Starship Troopers 3: Marauder should have thrown a good portion of that $20 million budget (yes, it’s direct-to-DVD) at Neil Patrick Harris, the token star of Paul Verhoeven’s campy, nihilistic 1997 original. The Japanese trailer has arrived and while it looks much better than anything I may have accidentally gleamed from the first home-market sequel, so does a half-eaten, six-day old meatball sub and Lost Boys 2. Do you think the Japanese subtitles here make everything seem that much more happy-joy? I do.
The SST franchise should really consider a move into the TV ether or webisodes. Casper Van Dien is back (from [...]

Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers is now aged more than a decade, and while it’s common for fans to say that the film was ahead of its time, it’s better to say that it arrived outside the time-space continuum altogether. In a perfect world, all movies would be $100 million midnight events satirizing various establishments while offering generous dollops of startling sci-fi special effects, nudity, splattered guts and the Doog. In reality, the second Starship Troopers sequel, Starship Troopers: Marauder is headed to a shelf near you, as these new photos from the flick attest. No glimpses of the giant bugs, though.
Casper [...]