Ashes and Diamonds

Hey, thanks for coming to the podcast. Really appreciate it. You want a water? Soda? Orange whip? Just want you to be comfortable. Ok, so go ahead and lay down on the floor here. Yep - right on top of the pokey thing. Yeah, it'll be fine; it's like a massage. Cool, cool, great. Okay, don't move! Please, whatever you do! Good. Now, if you'll continue to stare at the dentist TV in front of you without even so much as moving a millimetre we're gonna watch this week's movie - 2001's No Man's Land. I'm just gonna watch from the other side of this here tank. Enjoy! Next week: prison escape! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) No Man's Land stars Branko Đurić, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Šovagović, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, Katrin Cartlidge and Simon Callow; directed by Danis Tanović. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes ya just gotta kill some Nazis. It's as simple as that. Brendan and Jason grab their rifles and go out huntin' with Sisu, a film about a badass Lapland prospector who just wants to keep his gold and will kill any Nazis in his path. They gush about the insane and creative kills, the badass women hostages that get to have their own unexpected moments, the joy of a "meat-and-potatoes" movie and much more. Next week: stuck in the middle with you... Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Sisu stars Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Onni Tommila and Mimosa Williamo; directed by Jalmari Helander. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talked about Kanal so why not talk about another Wajda War™ film - Ashes and Diamonds. While this one focuses less on war itself and more of the implications of post-war and one's own morality, this is our podcast so don't tell us what to do, MOM!!! Ahem. Anyhoo, the fellas chat it up about this film and discuss the scene with very realistic (if not real?) drunk acting, the stark imagery particularly with religious symbols, the massive changes between this and the propagandistic source material, the Polish James Dean and much more. Next week: kill! kill! kill! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Ashes and Diamonds stars Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżyński, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Stanisław Milski and Ignacy Machowski; directed by Andrzej Wajda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BRIT PICK! Stand up and salute the Union Jack, 'cause Jason keeps us seaborn with this week's film THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE! Can it hang with the other films? Did Paste Magazine even watch this one? It's Powell and Pressburger, for chrissakes. Next week: The director of Kanal is BACK... in pog form. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) The Battle of the River Plate stars Bernard Lee, Peter Finch, John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Patrick Macnee, Andrew Cruikshank, Anthony Newley and Christopher Lee; directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You wanna go down, son? You wanna go all the way down? This ain't no Jim Cameron tour, fella, this is mortal combat at 150 feet below! Light up a Lucky and peel your shirt off 'cause it's getting real sweaty down here in 1958's Run Silent, Run Deep. Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster and Don Rickles crammed in a tube! Man... I wish Rickles was the captain. Now, that would have been a film! But no - they wanted Clark and I was like "fine." Stupid studio politics. Next week: going off the grid again... and more naval warfare! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Run Silent, Run Deep stars Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Nick Cravat, Joe Maross, Mary LaRoche and Don Rickles; directed by Robert Wise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Duke is back and this time, he's very patriotic! Wait... what do you mean "this time?" Uhh... anyway, this week the guys discussed the John Ford WWII film They Were Expendable centering on some PT boats following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The guys discuss if this John Wayne performance is worth anything, the character "Dad" who seemingly wandered in from another movie, the delightful Donna Reed and much more. Plus: a LOT of bad John Wayne impressions. Next week: two ways you can run! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) They Were Expendable stars Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Cameron Mitchell and Russell Simpson; directed by John Ford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the fellas return to the muddy pit of 1917 in Stanely Kubrick's Paths of Glory, and boy howdy do they ever get a twofer! It's a war movie upfront and a courtroom drama in the caboose! When you talk about value, Stan gives it to you in a neat 90-or-so-minute package. That's why they always called him Value Kubrick! (Ed. note: they did not. No one ever did.) Next week: The Duke is back! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Paths of Glory stars Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joe Turkel, Timothy Carey, Emile Meyer and George Macready; directed by Stanley Kubrick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, your hosts lead you into the Crusades with Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut. This is the version on the list so this is the version they discuss, baby! They talk about all the blue tinting, Orlando Bloom's divisive performance, the insanity of cutting out most of Eva Green and Michael Sheen's material from the theatrical cut, David Thewlis possibly playing a spirit and much more. Next week: Kubrick! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Kingdom of Heaven stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Alexander Siddig, Martin Csokas, Brendan Gleeson, Edward Norton, Ghassan Massoud, David Thewlis, Jeremy Irons, Michael Sheen, Kevin McKidd, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Liam Neeson; directed by Ridley Scott. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Jason reached out and asked me, retired and also dead crooner, Dean Martin, to say a few words about Stalag 17, I was confused, as I had nothin' to do with the picture, jack. I wasn't even in the service for very long, myself. Hernia, they told me. It was at that point that he got real hot and some words flew around and we settled things with a bottle of the good stuff. Eventually, I was able to sneak out after agreeing to write this. I'm nothing if not a man of my word. So, buddy-o, lemme set you straight: this is a heck of a picture. What ain't straight was Billy Holden's driving, which we saw to tragic effect. That ain't funny, that's just a fact, jack.  So, watch it and listen to this podcast thing about it? I don't care. I did my part. I'm off to the ghost bar, baby. Next week: It's gonna get biblical! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Stalag 17 stars William Holden, Robert Strauss, Don Taylor, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves, Richard Erdman, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman and Otto Preminger; directed by Billy Wilder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back to the list this week as the Two Dudes with Attitudes talk all about Days of Glory, a film that exposes the racism of the French troops as they treated their colonial soldiers like garbage during WWII. The guys debate the true feelings of Sgt. Martinez, the real-life consequences resulting from the film's release, the ultimate act of disrespect and much more. Plus: a very special friend comes back to visit Jason.   Next week: Off to prison! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at [email protected]   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Days of Glory stars Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Mélanie Laurent and Aurélie Eltvedt; directed by Rachid Bouchareb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices