hell or high water

In a few short years, Taylor Sheridan has been transformed from a bit-part actor on Sons of Anarchy into a major power player. Today’s screenwriters are almost anonymous, but Sheridan has some of the same name recognition and kudos once reserved for guys like Shane Black. He’s achieved all of this while bucking trends - in a far cry from the ceaseless deluge of superhero sequels we’ve been in for fifteen years, his movies are unambiguously written for grown-ups. Each of his five best films have been a key step in that transformation, which is why it’s worth recommending them each in turn.

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The brief and tumultuous Trump administration proves to have one of the most direct impacts on American cinema, as Lars and Michael explore through the films Hell or High Water and BlacKkKlansman.

The boys start knocking off banks as they review a modern day western in 2016's Hell or High Water starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster. Just make sure you don't open an account at Texas Midlands Bank. 

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Stop the press! Who is Peter André? Well, you're about to find out as this week’s show is brought to you from the mind of the fanatical turophile himself.
 
The second Indochina war waged from 1955 to 1975 with U.S. Marines landing on beaches near Da Nang, South Vietnam for the first time in March 1965. The war was politically and ideologically divisive on home soil in Washington and utterly devastating for the troops on the ground as they were largely outmanoeuvred, both sides sustaining terrible losses. In later years American filmmakers would attempt to make sense of the senseless and brutal conflict by exploring the horrors of the war on the silver screen, so much so that 'Vietnam War Movie' became essentially a genre in its own right. We talk about them in this week’s Top 5 and you can probably take a fair guess at what might be on the list although with any luck there's a surprise or two in there.
 
HELL OR HIGH WATER is a 2016 movie starring the impossibly good looking Chris Pine and the impossibly overacting Ben Foster as Toby and Tanner Howard, brothers who carry out a series of small town bank robberies in order to avoid foreclosure on their now deceased mother's ranch. Writer Taylor Sheridan had a recurring role in SONS OF ANARCHY and wrote the screenplay for SICARIO, so expectations were high for a film that, surprisingly, none of us had heard of. Jeff Bridges co-stars as a racist Texas Ranger approaching retirement who tasks himself with solving the case as his long-suffering partner Alberto (Gil Birmingham) looks on exasperatedly.
 
THE TRAPDOOR was an early 80's British animation that I could have sworn was just called Trapdoor right up until the moment I typed it for this sentence. An obvious parody of the Hammer Horror genre, the plot revolves around the unseen "The Thing Upstairs" and his near constant demand for food which almost always ends up with our hero Berk, an oviform blue plasticine blob, unleashing some grotesque mockery of reality beyond human comprehension from the title-istic basement-based entry hatchway. A searing satire of the relationship between the English working and upper classes or a prescient look at the vital role the service economy would start to have as we all became unseen beasts trapped in our homes, well only you can judge. And being as we don't discuss any of that on the show, you'd better judge it now.

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In what is somehow our second longest episode to date, we decided to take a look at the quickly-escalating career of writer/director Taylor Sheridan, in honor of this summer’s controversial new release Sicario: Day of the Soldado. We discuss the themes, politics, and marketing tactics of the new release, as well as our predictions for the planned third installment. We were all surprised to find out how much we geek out over Sheridan’s stories, and we hope that you’ll give it a listen, whether you’ve seen the movies or not. Enjoy! 

Hosted by Sam Noland, Jason Read, and Anthony Battaglia!

Question For You: Have you seen any of Taylor Sheridan’s movies? If so, what do you think?

SHOW NOTES:

• 1:38 - Introduction to Taylor Sheridan
• 8:47 - Vile (2011)
• 26:25 - Sicario (2015)
• 42:33 - Hell or High Water (2016)
• 56:27 - Wind River (2017)
• 1:08:36 - Yellowstone (2018)
• 1:13:35 - Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
• 1:35:36 - Reading some of your feedback
• 1:41:08 - Conclusion

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##Episode 15 | Hell or High Water ##

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###Film Synopsis###

Toby is a divorced father who's trying to make a better life for his son. His brother Tanner is an ex-convict with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that's about to foreclose on their family ranch. Standing in their way is Marcus, a Texas Ranger who's only weeks away from retirement. As the siblings plot their final robbery, they must also prepare for a showdown with a crafty lawman who's not ready to ride off into the sunset.

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