The Foxhole Companion

Uncomfortable Bedfellows....or Flashdance and Smeggy. Could this Finnish epic be our favourite film yet?!

It should be called Lady Death....Simon and Dan discuss this 2015 Russian/Ukranian (yeah shocking) mess about the Soviet sniper ace Lyudmila Pavlichenko.

In part 2, Simon and Dan now turn to the film, Fortress of War, aka Brest Fortress, aka Fortress!

Dan and Simon take a look at the history behind Operation Barbarossa and the outbreak of hostilities between Germany and Soviet Russia. A brief background before giving you some background on this epic film! Part 2 at the end of the week!

Dan and Simon bring you a North Africa double feature! The rip-roaring Desert Rats with Richard Burton and James Mason and the very awful Rats of Tobruk.

So very awful!

A very snotty Dan and Simon are off to North Africa and this very good 2008 Czechoslovakian film directed by Václav Marhoul of the brilliant 'The painted Bird" fame. And a chance to win your very own copy of Commando comic book!!!

Dan and Simon take another festive (drunken) browse through the Xmas war films on TV this holiday season!!

Dan and Simon take a look at this 1960 retelling of the epic naval battle in the frozen North Atlantic. But is this film epic? That remains to be seen....

Dan and Simon are BACK!! 

Its a whole new season and the boys kick it off with The 49th Parallel!! Though opinion is somewhat divided.....

A quick message from Dan and Simon in the wake of the current conflict in Ukraine.

Dan and Simon have a look through this Christmas Holiday bumper Radio Times....and are shocked!!! Shocked I tell you, at what they find.

Simon and Dan are completely taken by surprise by this 1953 masterpiece examining a crew of a Royal Navy Corvette fighting the hidden enemy in the deep and in themselves!!!!

Could be another 5 out of 5!!!!

Simon and Dan take a look at this 1940 film set in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic. Dan thinks this might be the greatest film ever made. Simon is not too sure.

Dan and Simon bring you an action packed double bill as they take a look at the story of "war hero" Douglas Bader in Reach for the Sky and the excellent "Hurricane"! Dan gets upset. Again.

Simon and Dan take a look at this rollicking, rip-roaring film with a cast of thousands and the history behind this pivotal battle of the Second World War 2.

Simon and Dan take a look at the 1958, version starring John Mills. Tune in for a chance to win your own copy of Commando!! The comic book of...well, of all things war!

Dan and Simon take a look at Christopher Nolan's 2017 Dunkirk! Be warned, there are a LOT of football analogies. Football is coming HOME...much like the soldiers on the beach! Oh dear.

Dan and Simon apologise profusely for their absence and discuss the brilliant film, The Kings Choice.

Probably the best. Film. Ever. But Simon doesn't think so. Dan sings some Barry Manilow.

Dan and Simon discuss the brilliant film, APRIL 9TH! Starring Lars Mikkelsen and Game of Thrones' Pilou Asbæk! Simon also gets quite excited about piles of logs.

Dan and Simon take a look at the 2007 Polish film Katyn, discuss Secret Service eastern European football and have a heated debate about ski jumpers. 

Welcome to Season Two of the Foxhole Companion! Today we explore conscription In Great Britain at the outbreak of the War (and we get sidetracked discussing movie scores!).

Dan and Simon revisit their childhoods and the Radio Times with a preview of the seasonal War mongering films of Yuletide. And get drunk.

The boys discuss the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate and Dan gets quite upset about his car failing it's MOT.

A little bonus Episode to take us up to December 1939. Plus a competition to win a DVD!

An extraordinary examination of the opening hours of WW II from the Polish Director, Stanislaw Rózewicz. A MUST watch!

Could this remarkable Polish film be Simon and Dan's first 5 Star film!!! Tune in Friday to find out!!

A bonus episode where Simon and Dan fill in some history and discuss two films that didn't make the cut but are worth a look!

Please be advised some of the subjects discussed in today's film may be upsetting to some people.

Quick fix of what is to come on the next episode of Foxhole Companion!

A little taste of what to expect (not much!!) from this weeks episode of......The Foxhole Companion!

Episode 2: Wherein the boys fail to make head nor tails of this absolute stinker of pre-war US propaganda. I mean how could they miss this lot of absolute Nazi's right under their noses?! Staring Edward G Robinson. Directed by Anatole Litvak.

Welcome to our debut episode where Dan and Simon discuss the brilliant Seventh Cross directed by Fred Zinnemann and staring Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.

If you're a war movie buff or a film aficionado then this is the podcast for you! A chronological history of World War Two seen through the eyes of the silver screen! Starting in 1936 with the little know Seventh Cross starring Spencer Tracy and Confessions of a Nazi Spy with Edward G Robinson! All the way through to VJ day. But not just the films of Hollywood; we take a look at the war films of Sweden, Finland, Italy, Germany, Russia, China and Japan to name but a few! Coming Soon!