Friendly Fire

Platoon

Platoon: Does this film truly express the duality of human nature (especially during wartime), or is it simply Oliver Stone's retelling of his own experience in Vietnam? On today's episode Adam, Ben, John *and* Movie Crush host Chuck Bryant load sandbags and flick ants off their necks while reviewing this 1986 drama!<a href="https://www.moviecrush.show/" target="_blank">Click here to listen to the Movie Crush version of this episode!</a>Platoon is available onAmazon, Youtube, Google, Vudu, iTunes, and StarzThe next film, The Enemy Below (1957), is available onAmazon, YouTube, Google Play, Vudu, iTunes, and your local library

A history podcast with a twist: Friendly Fire uses war movies as a point of entry on not only the history of war, but the history of how societies think about war. John Roderick, Adam Pranica and Benjamin Ahr Harrison dissect movies from throughout the history of cinema, talk about film production, pedantic quibbles with costumes and airplanes, and keep you laughing the entire time.