This week on Danger Close, a Veteran interview with yours truly, Dan!I sat down with two former Marine aviators and we talked about our experiences in the Corps, traded aviation stories, and I even played them a special recording that has not

FRIGHT PUB / DANGER CLOSE CROSSOVER: Overlord (2018)

Jun 4th, 2024 2h 11m

For the first time ever, the Fright Pub crew and the Danger Close team get together in person to record a podcast. In Pittsburgh!!If this film is where the Venn diagram of horror films and war films meet, then I guess Liam is where the Venn di

BONUS EPISODE: Inception (2010)

May 2nd, 2024 2h 21m

We’re back!The show returns with a brand new DCE episode that we decided to release free to everyone. We want to thank our generous Patrons for sticking with us during our much needed break as we caught up with our schedule and got a bunch of

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Jan 12th, 2024 2h 12m

Another good example of a modern war film produced before September 11th, this one puts us in the helicopters and humvees of Task Force Ranger during the humanitarian crisis in Somalia in 1993. Dispensing with most of the geo-political complexi

Reports from the Front: Fourteen Hours in Husaybah

Nov 19th, 2023 2h 16m

Dan sits down with former Marine infantry Sergeant Rich Cervantes. Rich enlisted in the USMC in 2001, and trained as a TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) anti-tank gunner. In this exclusive interview, he tells the story of why

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Nov 8th, 2023 1h 30m

This isn’t the first WWII film we have covered to be filmed and released while the war was still ongoing, but it is our first comedy that fits those parameters. It often pops up on lists of best comedies ever, and for good reason. The Nazis ha

Oppenheimer (2023)

Sep 20th, 2023 2h 31m

If you only saw one movie in the summer of 2023… statistically speaking it was probably Barbie. But if you saw two movies in the summer of 2023… okay, statistically it's fairly likely they were both Barbie. But if you saw two movies on the same

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Sep 1st, 2023 2h 9m

We've talked Nazis before. And we have covered WWII in several films which varied in style and subject manner, but this is our first time dealing with the Holocaust, so we figured we should start with an old classic that is famous for the way i

The Woman King (2022)

Aug 1st, 2023 2h

First conceived in 2015 and released in 2022, The Woman King had a long, turbulent road to the box office. An historical action epic starring and driven by a cast of black women, it was a tough sell to studios until the overwhelming success of

Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

Jun 15th, 2023 1h 13m

Released in November of 2001, Behind Enemy Lines came out in a totally different time in history. 9/11 had just happened, and tensions were high all over the world, especially in the U.S. This movie is a little dose of “rah-rah NATO” rescuing

Reports from the Front: The End Goal Is to Make It Home Alive

May 21st, 2023 1h 45m

Dan sits down with good friend and former Marine Sergeant Tyler Funk. Tyler enlisted in the USMC as an Air Traffic Controller in 2003. After some initial training, he volunteered for deployment, and later was selected for the MEU (Marine Expedi

Top Gun (1986)

Apr 17th, 2023 2h 14m

Last episode, we talked about a military aviation film. It had some pretty great aerial scenes, the best Cessna vs motorcycle race we have ever seen, and a fun soundtrack! But not nearly as good as the one for the film we are covering today (al

Iron Eagle (1986)

Mar 25th, 2023 1h 49m

1986 was a landmark year for military aviation in cinema. Top Gun came out in May, the very start of the Summer blockbuster season, and immediately boosted Navy recruitment by 10 bajillion percent. That’s not an approximation, those are the off

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Feb 11th, 2023 1h 56m

One of the most famous and most successful retellings of one of the most infamous and highly mythologized incidents in the history of the British Navy, this 1935 adaptation of the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Newton Hall might be a littl

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Jan 14th, 2023 2h 23m

One of Michael Mann’s most beloved films, this is the most recent and most enduring of ELEVEN screen adaptations of the historical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper, and it takes us to a war we seldom see depicted elsewhere in cinema: The

Das Boot (1981)

Dec 16th, 2022 2h 12m

For our first Wolfgang Peterson film, we decided to cover what is often touted as the best submarine film ever, and one that is on most people’s Top Ten War Film lists.Starring a young Jürgen Prochnow as the Captain of U-96 and a cast of mostl

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Nov 11th, 2022 1h 50m

With a screenplay based on Erich Maria Remarque’s immensely popular book, first published in 1929, director Edward Berger has taken on the daunting task of leading the first German team to take this story to the big screen. It is written, dire

BONUS EPISODE: Fright Pub: Last Night in Soho (2021)

Oct 28th, 2022 1h 4m

To give our fans some additional content while we are operating on a reduced release schedule - and in honor of Halloween - we are dropping an episode of our sister Horror Movie podcast, Fright Pub, into the main feed.Listen as Liam, Shaggy, a

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 55m

The year is 1990. The Cold War is in full swing, and the threat of thermonuclear world war is ever present. The Soviet Union is…wait…what? Oh the Berlin Wall came down last year? And the Soviet Union is rapidly dissolving? The Iron Curtain is b

Mister Roberts (1955)

Oct 1st, 2022 1h 56m

A classic example of the once popular "Service Comedy" genre, this hit film was adapted from a hit stage play, in turn adapted from a hit novel. Henry Fonda reprises his role from the stage play as the titular Lieutenant (j.g.) Roberts, alongsi

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Sep 16th, 2022 2h 11m

One of the first big-budget Vietnam War films from the US, the production of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic was quite a war in its own right. The shooting was fraught with issues, including filming in the Philippines where rebels interrupted the

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Aug 26th, 2022 1h 51m

Finishing in second place for our third poll in a row earned this film its rightful spot in the Danger Close catalogue.Set in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand in 1943, it pits the principled Lt Col Nicholson (Alec Guinness) against the ruthl

Beau Geste (1939)

Aug 13th, 2022 1h 52m

Even in a year like 1939 - which gave us the likes of Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Gone with the Wind - it’s hard to believe that an Oscar-nominated action adventure from a legendary, Oscar winning director, featuring an all-star cast of f

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)

Jul 29th, 2022 1h 48m

This film has been requested many times; usually by our Aussie and Kiwi listeners, and occasionally by people who think our podcast is entirely dedicated to this one film from 2019.Well-known down under, but not as much in the rest of the worl

BONUS EPISODE: Independence Day (1996)

Jul 4th, 2022 1h 46m

Get ready for an alien-invader stompin' good time! In the rare case where Liam loves a film just because it is so fun, we go back to our childhoods and reminisce over the roll-out and execution of this Roland Emerich gem.From a time when a rel