Hell or High Water

So, your mother has just died, leaving her estate in your care, but the rapacious bank with which she did business spent the last few years of her life squeezing pennies out of her pocket with sadistic glee. You’re a divorced dad who wants to do right by your children and leave them the family ranch that has just been found to be oil rich, but the bank is closing in, ready to foreclose and reclaim the house. What’s an enterprising young Texan like yourself to do? The answer, as any hard-jawed, steely-eyed man’s man knows, is sell cookies at your local theater troop’s yearly musical and skim enough off the top to satisfy the enormous debt. What’s that? Not good at baking? Hate musicals? Well, my friend, it looks like you’ll have to take the Hell or High Water route, and fortunately this week’s movie, the 2016 best picture nominee Hell or High Water directed by David Mackenzie, can tell you all about it. Just enlist the help of your reckless, dangerous brother and recruit the very bank that has been at your heels into a decidedly involuntary GoFundMe campaign in the form of a robbing spree that spans the Lone Star State and bing bang boom! Money time. Now that you’re rich and in the clear, may I recommend today’s episode of Magellans at the Movies, which reviews this very film (and also accepts donations fyi)? Don’t worry, you’ll get your fill of analysis, banter, and recommendations before the lawman tracks you down for a tense confrontation, but only if you start the episode now, so what are you waiting for? Let’s giddyup to the movies!