The Vietnam war drama would go on to win Oscars for best picture and best director. By Gregg Kilday Freelance Contributor 'Platoon,' front, left to right: Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon; back, left to ...

Charlie Sheen is back in the public eye, hopefully for better reasons than his last few turns in the spotlight. After years of addiction issues, misguided press appearances, low-rent movies, sitcom ...

Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...

This is my 40th year as a professional movie critic. Which is mildly surprising to me, and would have been more surprising to a particular person I met with in late 1992. When I first interviewed for ...

Oliver Stone has insisted that Charlie Sheen was perfect for his role in the hit 1986 film Platoon. Talking to Entertainment Weekly upon the film's 25th anniversary, the director admitted that while ...

Most of the films screening at the 25th annual Phoenix Film Festival were made in the last few years. But on the evening of Saturday, March 29, the festival will screen “Platoon,” which was made in ...

Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone will be in Vermont in August to screen a trio of films at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Stone will show and discuss three of his movies – “Platoon ...

Oliver Stone's 1987 anti-war epic Platoon, about the horrors of Vietnam, is getting a new, limited-edition release on 4k Blu-ray. The Platoon Limited 4K Steelbool edition will be available on June 4, ...

What are the leadership lessons from Oscar-winning Best Picture Platoon? It was a very personal film for Stone, having served in Vietnam, he wrote the screenplay as a response to what he saw as the ...