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Dead Presidents Empties Its Clips on the Cinephile Hissy Fit

N'Bushe Wright in Dead Presidents. Image courtesy of Hollywood Pictures.

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast love a good rabbit hole where a certain topic, idea, star, or filmmaker sends you on a deep dive. When one musters up the courage to venture through the lists of notable and great movies depicting the Vietnam War, folks are bound to find 1995’s Dead Presidents. When curious viewers get there after they pay their dues with the likes of Platoon and The Deer Hunter, they will find much to be impressed by from this somewhat-overlooked opus from the Hughes brothers.

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For their 226th episode, two bank-robbing critics, two strutting dads, and two war veteran teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, make their way to a long-time queue hold and blindspot of Will that came from a recommendation of Don. Our guys enter the unique pre-, post-, and during Vietnam War perspectives shared by the cult classic Dead Presidents, directed by the Hughes Brothers of From Hell and Menace II Society fame. Hear why Don calls it one of the best Vietnam films of all-time while Will shares his first-time impressions. This movie is intense and hit strongly. Come learn more and stay for the mutual love and respect that fun movies encapsulate. Enjoy our podcast!

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Written by Don Shanahan

DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Hollywood Creative Alliance, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.

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