Recorded towards the end of our Irishman session (the conversation continued for roughly the same amount of time as a third episode), this episode features RP's crack film review squad - Jack and Yair - revisiting one of Martin Scorsese's most powerful and heartfelt films, The Last Temptation of Christ, which makes a compelling case for a more human Christ and was received with appropriate opprobrium by religious zealots everywhere. Neither of us are believers of any sort, let alone Christians, ...
Feb 04, 2020•54 min
Listen to the full 38-minute minisode at patreon.com/reelpolitik Welcome to the TOO RAW FOR RADIO companion to episode 137, featuring various bits that were considered too irrelevant/offensive for the main episode plus a longer discussion of the Socialist Campaign Group - the left-wing grouping of Labour MPs - edited together as if it's a proper episode. FEATURING: further thoughts on the Labour leadership and deputy leadership contests, Scientology, John Crace, technologically inept politicians...
Jan 29, 2020•4 min
The Labour leadership contest is now a four-way race, with the anointed right-wing wrecker candidate Jess Phillips pulling out to spend more time doing softball interviews with journalists who won't ask her difficult questions about "leadership" and "vision of the future" and "what policies would you change in the 2019 manifesto?" The media have unanimously declared the disintegration of the Phillips campaign a most lamentable tragedy, which they attribute to the Labour membership being unable t...
Jan 28, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Michael Bay put out a new film towards the end of last year, the confusingly titled Netflix original 6 Underground. Yair is a scholar of Bay's work, having written his dissertation on the director's status as a "vulgar auteur", and joins Jack to talk about the film in all its relentless, regime-changing glory. Yes, Bay's getting deep into what Eddie Marsan would call "promoting democracy in other countries" in this latest picture, and we're here with the official left-wing critique. In the back ...
Jan 20, 2020•55 min
Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik and listen to the full episode at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33185613 We talked about Jack's other favourite film of 2019, Blinded By The Light, last episode. Now, he and Yair spend the best part of an hour digging into Marty Scorsese's weary epic on the intersection of crime & time, The Irishman. Marty's back, and this time he's brought all the boys! Did we rate his latest 3.5 hour opus? Oh yes. Beyond our wildest dreams. They don't make 'em like thi...
Jan 15, 2020•7 min
July-August 2019 saw the release of two quite similar films: British jukebox musicals centred around the work of a legendary classic rock artist and its impact on a young British-Asian man. These two films were Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle's Yesterday, starring Himesh Patel as a budding singer-songwriter who wakes up from a coma to find the Beatles no longer exist and he can make it big by stealing their songs, and Gurinder Chadha's Blinded By The Light, starring Viveik Kalra as a teenager gro...
Jan 11, 2020•1 hr 28 min
Yo! We're still exhausted and depressed from the hated 12th December, but our post-election episode featuring longstanding friend of the show Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2 on Twitter) is now here! We do our best to hold the line and defend the left programme in these horribly unpleasant circumstances, whilst looking to the future rather than dwelling on the plain fact that our agenda didn't come across as well as it should have done. Jude drops one of the first heavyweight endorsements of the leade...
Jan 03, 2020•1 hr 45 min
originally released on patreon.com/reelpolitik on boxing day the latest Jack/Yair movie roundup, covering LOADS of stuff. it's early boxing day morning right now and i can't even remember what films specifically are covered, but hopefully there's something in there for everyone. merry christmas, love Jack & the rest of the gang
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 16 min
both songs written & recorded by Jack Frayne-Reid, 30th December 2019
Dec 31, 2019•10 min
both songs written & recorded by Jack Frayne-Reid, 30th December 2019
Dec 31, 2019•3 min
Our latest RP Exclusive: a leaked audio recording from THE MILLER FILES, the ultra-ultra-encrypted documents that fell into the hands of Ilford investigative journalist Mr Jimothy Baker upon the mysterious disappearance of former Mike Gapes campaign manager Mr Richard Miller.
Dec 24, 2019•3 min
2019's Colorado is, by Wikipedia's estimation, Neil Young's 39th studio album and, by my estimation, his fourteenth complete studio album backed by the rock band Crazy Horse, not counting the numerous NY records where they play on one or a handful of tracks. The album is one of Young's more varied of recent years, alternating between scorching barnstormers and some of his prettiest ballads in ages. We look at the history of the Horse, including their rocky recent years, and the reintroduction of...
Dec 22, 2019•1 hr 31 min
An unsung hero of RP Thought is Dr Daniel Howdon, the esteemed health economist who so famously clashed with the hated Richard Angell over whether hospital car parking should be free for patients and their families during the last election. We couldn't even begin to detail Dan's invaluable contributions to the New Lexicon of the Left and Twitter-as-artform, but we certainly could get him on the line to un-melt the polls, breaking down the hard data on what's really happening in the election and ...
Dec 12, 2019•50 min
The brilliant comedian Josie Long returns to this podcast two years on from her last appearance to tell everybody to VOTE LABOUR AND VOTE OFTEN (ok, Josie didn't say "vote often" - she is a law-abiding citizen and would never advocate Mr Richard Miller-style electoral fraud. But she definitely said VOTE LABOUR!) We talk about melt comedy vs Josie's own ideologically correct stylings (this is our assessment, not hers, which is very magnanimous towards all her peers), why there's so much cause for...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Watch our full report here on the RP YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPrTZgyfd1I Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson's general election campaign has been dogged by rumours of ritualistic squirrel murder. But who are the Orange Book Nutcrackers, and what role have they played in recent Liberal Democrat history? Our investigative team reports.
Dec 07, 2019•3 min
We should have a genuine legend of comedy on the show on Sunday, but in the meantime we thought it apposite to spend an hour shitting one of of our formative comic heroes: Mr Eric Idle, of Monty Python and Rutles fame. Idle has nailed his anti-Corbyn colours to the mask in recent days, largely in the form of a heated feud with our friends from the left-wing Canadian podcast Michael & Us. He's screamed to anyone who'd listen that Corbyn plans to nationalise Monty Python, that Labour's plans a...
Dec 06, 2019•1 hr 13 min
Listen to the full thing at patreon.com/reelpolitik In our latest subscriber-only minisode (only about 10 mins shorter than the canonical episode hitting SoundCloud today), Jack and Yair bitch and moan about the utter mediocrity - and often high-concept, low-energy nature - of direct-to-VOD thrillers; not the kind of dogshit that 9 out of any 10 films Nic Cage does in any given year will be, but the slightly more prestigious kind that Netflix and Hulu commission for people to discuss around the ...
Dec 05, 2019•4 min
We finally did it. After succeeding in driving him out of the Labour Party, we managed to trick Mike Gapes into appearing on our podcast for an exclusive interview. With our man Rupert on the ground in Ilford South to talk to the Gapeman and his campaign manager Jack (not to be confused with our Jack, who has never even claimed to be Gapes' election agent), Jack (@gapesology) and Geraint (@waluigitifo) are joined in RP Studios St Petersburg by Ilford investigative reporter extraordinaire Mr Jimo...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Geraint is back from holiday, with an announcement to make. With that important business attended to, he and Jack break down the hard truth about the major issues of the day, from our recent suspension from Twitter, to the campaign trail in Ilford South, to the sacking of our mortal enemy Oz Katerji by our mortal enemies the Daily Mail. We check in on the Dangerdads/Ultramelts, and provide cutting analysis of the major political debate of the last week - the Ilford South hustings, in which the n...
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 23 min
This was originally recorded as part of one of our regular movie roundups, but we thought it would be more appropriate to release it as its own thing because of the gravity of the subject matter in comparison to what else we talked about. In this short episode, Yair and Jack talk about a fairly arbitrary selection of films about the Holocaust that they recently watched; Jack reviews Atom Egoyan's 2015 thriller Remember, and Paul Verhoeven's 2006 WWII movie Black Book, whilst Yair talks about a c...
Nov 28, 2019•33 min
To listen to the whole thing, subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik Hey comrades, Thanks for all your support in light of our recent suspension from Twitter. We're not letting the bastards grind us down and the show goes on. This is all the stuff left on the cutting room floor from our episode with the excellent Luke Savage. We talk about his podcast Michael & Us, and how Bernie Sanders has created a political space for figures such as Michael Moore and Neil Young. There's also so...
Nov 24, 2019•4 min
RIP Twitter Failing site Very sad and tragic what's going on there.
Nov 22, 2019•17 min
NEW RP! @LukewSavage of @MichaelandUs and @jacobinmag joins Jack & Geraint to discuss the BBC's 1995 documentary series Labour: The Wilderness Years, in which the great & the good of the Labour Party (and the SDP) put forth their often drastically divergent perspectives on the party's post-1979, pre-Blair history. Plus - the British and Canadian elections, Neil Young's endorsement in the latter, and Luke's Twitter beef with Mike Gapes.
Nov 20, 2019•1 hr 17 min
This year RP host Jack Frayne-Reid has made two albums of lo-fi home recordings under the (unoriginal) name Crazy Moose: Patterns (in July) and, this October (or was it September? fuck man) Ghost Horizon, which was recorded over the summer. In the first part of a two-side conversation Yair interviews Jack about the first side of the record, which includes the songs 'Side Two', 'Tombstone Bones', 'Fickle", 'Fucking Vindicated' and 'Talking Thunder'. We talk about the inspiration behind the songs ...
Nov 15, 2019•1 hr 14 min
Produced by new RP affiliate @molono, we can finally present to you our last political discussion recorded before the election was called, which has been lounging in the vaults for a few weeks now. Geraint (@wariotifo) heads up the episode, and takes our listeners on a journey through the past to the heyday of the Tory youth movement. We look at those who were active Conservatives in the early 2010s, and wonder where they are now. We also look at confirmed cop JJ Patrick's Brexit survival tips.
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 18 min
"I understood Paul Wolfowitz as a man who believed in promoting democracy in other countries, and I played him as somebody who thought he was doing the right thing. " - Eddie Marsan In the second part of the movie roundup that saw us reviewing three major new releases, we now trawl through the annals of film history to bring you a wide-ranging discussion of the form, from our love of South Korea's thriving national cinema, to the dazzlingly vibrant filmmaking that came from one of Italy's most p...
Nov 12, 2019•56 min
music & some lyrics: Neil Young new lyrics: Jack Frayne-Reid
Nov 07, 2019•2 min
Geraint, Yair and a hoarse-voiced Jack are back for another rowdy election special, in which we drop some of our trademark Reel Politik salt onto the hated Liberal Democrats, who are pioneering bold new fronts in non-linear warfare in their astonishingly, disgracefully deceitful campaign. We talk all the lies: the bullshit graphs, the "tactical voting" sites, the backtracking on past pledges of denuclearisation in order to score cheap points at Corbyn for not wanting to murder everybody. Our foc...
Nov 07, 2019•1 hr 6 min
In this short special, we bring you an exclusive peak behind the iron curtain of the RP Patreon paywall. Our content this October on patreon.com/reelpolitik has included: - your regular RP newsletter, written by Jack and approved by Mr Seumas Milne - a mammoth two-hour session with Jack, Yair and friend of the show Emmett "roof access" Cruddas talking about the incredible Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan, 2007) - RP founder and artistic director Tom Foster's return to the show after a...
Nov 01, 2019•12 min
At long last, after two years of agonising political deadlock, a General Election was announced yesterday. Geraint (@wariotifo) and Yair (@rice_ys) join Jack (@gapesology) to salt every slug in the book and finally get excited again about the prospect of Mr Jeremy Corbyn and Mr Seumas Milne in Number 10 Downing Street. This emergency RP election broadcast was rushed to completion in under twelve hours, and should hopefully be the start of a big election cycle for your favourite scurrilous left p...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 17 min
