Episode 47. The Taylor Sheridan Experience: Sicario & Sicario: Day of the Soldado

As soon as Sicario came out, we knew Taylor Sheridan was a good screenwriter.  Three films later (with two more about to drop in the next few weeks), he's cementing his status as a great screenwriter. And for the next month or so, we're diving deep into his filmography, starting with a double dose of Sick-ario action with the original and the sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado.

But first we have to talk about the 2021 Oscars (the Lauren Lapkus snub still hurts) and what we watched this week. Dre started with Mortal Kombat (not the good one); the 1974 James Caan film, The Gambler; The Father featuring Anthony Hopkin's Academy Award winning performance (sorry, Chadwick); and the latest film by someone he follows on Twitter (Brian Duffield), Spontaneous, which is about high school kids spontaneously exploding (could happen).

Goodman couldn't stomach finishing Mortal Kombat, so instead he rewatched the Quentin Tarantino gear-head exploitation film, Death Proof (one half of the great Grindhouse combo) and Friends with Kids, written and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt, and starring half the cast of Bridesmaids.

Then we go all inter-agency taskforce and move to the El Paso/Juarez border for a hell of a lot of drug cartels and the badasses waging war on them... if only it was a war worth fighting. We talk the casts, the quotes, the trivia, and more!

Next week we're going full Tom Clancy with the Michael B. Jordan starring Without Remorse, written by Taylor Sheridan and directed by Sicario: Day of the Soldado's Stefano Sollima. Let's see if the magic is back!

SONG CREDITS:
Theme music: "70s Funk" by Frank Cogliano
Closing music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert

Chapters

• 1:59 2021 Oscars
• 10:22 What we watched this week: Mortal Kombat
• 15:18 What we watched this week: The Gambler
• 17:14 What we watched this week: The Father
• 22:07 What we watched this week: Death Proof
• 24:08 What we watched this week: Spontaneous
• 28:07 What we watched this week: Friends with Kids
• 35:58 The Taylor Sheridan Experience: Sicario
• 1:03:32 The Cast: Sicario
• 1:16:18 Quota Obscura: Sicario
• 1:18:35 Trivia: Sicario
• 1:20:42 The Taylor Sheridan Experience: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
• 1:37:32 The Cast: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
• 1:44:45 Quota Obscura: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
• 1:48:27 Trivia: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
• 1:49:36 Dre's Film Score-ner: Troy (by Gabriel Yared)
• 1:51:05 More Trivia: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
• 1:53:11 Dre's Closing