On this episode we are joined by Matt and Ed from the podcast Shot Reverse Shot as we attempt to win the war on drugs, by watching the reviled Steven Soderbergh movie TRAFFIC and the classic Ridley Scott film THE COUNSELOR. And yes, this is shameless trolling in the hopes that you’ll keep listening to a movie podcast on THE COUNSELOR.
But before that mess of a movie we have one of the few great films of 2015, and a conversation with Dave from Pop Culture Case Study on new release SICARIO.
In a dystopian world where a radical government has unleashed a deadly poison to control population, only those with blood type AB positive remain unscathed. But instead of outright death, the rest of the population is left to suffer in a state of chronic illness, causing widespread chaos and panic. As the majority slowly succumbs to the effects of the poison, their only hope lies in receiving transfusions of AB positive blood from the few immune survivors, like Charlie and his granddaughter Maya. Living in the decrepit remains of an abandoned amusement park, Charlie is a renegade supplier of blood to the underground market. But their sanctuary is threatened by the iron-fisted rule of District 22's ruthless warden, Onslow, who will stop at nothing to save his own dying son. As Charlie and Maya fight to defend their haven and their own sanity, the eccentric duo must navigate through a world of danger and betrayal. POPULATION PURGE was written by Brian Johnson and Toby Osborne and di...