Hell or High Water (2016) — "150 years ago, all of this was my ancestors' land. Everything you could see."
We begin our mini-look at Taylor Sheridan's cinematic works with one of his more Western-facing screenplays, Hell or High Water. Directed by David Mackenzie, it stars Chris Pine and Ben Foster as brothers robbing branches of the bank that's foreclosing on their family's land, with Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham as the Texas Rangers on their trail. It's a sharp look at violence, poverty, and what one will do for family in the face of both.
Texas Tech's Dr. David D. Perlmutter, professor of media and communication, joins Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, to talk West Texas, the…
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