Podcast Episodes
Back to Search'Dune 2' Pushed Back, Barbenheimer’s $2 Billion, and Everything We Missed While We Were Out
We’re back! Sean and Amanda discuss all the movies they missed, the big stories out of Hollywood, and much more (1:00). Then, Sean is joined by ‘Bott…
2 years, 6 months ago
8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time?
Oliver Stone returns to Vietnam with ‘Born on the Fourth of July’—a movie that closes out the ’80s, as well as the Vietnam movie boom. But ‘Forrest G…
2 years, 6 months ago
7. Ain’t War Hell? | Do We Get to Win This Time?
In the late ’80s, a new wave of big-studio hits like ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’ introduces young moviegoers to Vietnam—and helps…
2 years, 6 months ago
6. I Am Reality | Do We Get to Win This Time?
Oliver Stone’s harrowing and heartbreaking Vietnam drama ‘Platoon’ becomes a worldwide phenomenon in 1986—and signals the beginning of the Vietnam mo…
2 years, 6 months ago
5. Nothing Is Over | Do We Get to Win This Time?
In the early 1980s, as America is grappling with the fallout of Vietnam, a troubled big-screen vet named John Rambo launches an unlikely movie franch…
2 years, 7 months ago
4. Little by Little, We Went Insane | Do We Get to Win This Time?
‘Apocalypse Now’ closes out the 1970s with the most ambitious Vietnam movie yet: a big-budget spectacle that will bring moviegoers closer than ever t…
2 years, 7 months ago
3. What a Strange Country | Do We Get to Win This Time?
In the late ’70s, ‘The Deer Hunter’ and ‘Coming Home’ offer two very different visions of Vietnam—and become unexpected hits. Together, they’d bring …
2 years, 7 months ago
2. I Just Don’t Talk About It | Do We Get to Win This Time?
It’s the mid-’70s, and Hollywood is still scared of Vietnam. But a series of dark and wildly entertaining B movies brings the war to the big screen, …
2 years, 7 months ago
1. Give ’Em Hell | Do We Get to Win This Time?
In the late-’60s, John Wayne stars in the first hit Vietnam movie: his controversial blockbuster ‘The Green Berets.’ And the piercing documentary ‘He…
2 years, 7 months ago
Prologue | Do We Get to Win This Time?
‘The Deer Hunter.’ ‘Apocalypse Now.’ ‘First Blood.’ ‘Platoon.’ They’re among the hit films dealing with the Vietnam War—a conflict that divided movie…
2 years, 7 months ago