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Aliens

Aliens: Does this film reflect on the past by portraying a frightening future? Or is this just a fun popcorn-chomping action flick? On today's episode Adam, Ben, and John point their flamethrowers at the eggs of this 1986 thriller.Aliens is available on<a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/aliens/id270212246?mt=6&amp;at=1000lPzL" target="_blank">iTunes</a>, Amazon, HBO, YouTube, Google Play, and VuduThe next film, Kelly's Heroes, 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.