Welcome to 064 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast.
It’s time to cross the border, listen to some political jargon, and avoid getting your head blown off as we discuss 'Sicario".
Rebecca and Gary are joined by Cinephile & Film Critic Jim Ross to breakdown the best bits of Denis Villeneuve's tense, gritty and violent film
Synopsis
After rising through the ranks of her male-dominated profession, idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) receives a top assignment. Recruited by mysterious government official Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), Kate joins a task force for the escalating war against drugs. Led by the intense and shadowy Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), the team travels back-and-forth across the U.S.-Mexican border, using one cartel boss (Bernardo Saracino) to flush out a bigger one (Julio Cesar Cedillo).
Links In Conversation
Twitter - @JimGR
Twitter - @TAKEONECinema
Website - TAKEONECinema.net
Twitter - @cinetopia
Twitter - @ehfm_live
Website - ehfm.live
Creative Recommendations
Film Shortage
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa2QppVwCuivaWe5qfVY_Q
John McFarlane - Composer
https://soundcloud.com/john-colin-mcfarlane?fbclid=IwAR1aee-Ub6xfH0WPYJRdmIB-1xDN0dkzSjbnRlBMjNiVUEUUjnXe6qcHHcA
EHFM
https://www.ehfm.live
Jim's Bio
Jim is a freelance film critic and the Editor-in-Chief of TAKEONECinema.net, which covers festivals and independent cinema year-round. He hosted a fortnightly radio show on Cambridge 105FM from 2011-2013, and has co-produced Cinetopia on Edinburgh's EH-FM since January 2019. He has served on multiple film festival juries, the Cambridge Film Festival submissions panel for short and feature films since 2011, and is a former Deputy Director of Cambridge African Film Festival."