Jack recently joined friend-of-the-show Sinan Kose on his Twitch stream to review arch-Blairite political commentator and ancient supernatural entity John Rentoul's new book, which seeks to positively reappraise the New Labour government (well, not so much the three years Gordon Brown was in charge) in the passionate manner Rentoul has utilised throughout his storied, centuries-spanning career. Jack had not actually read the book, so had a big stack of other books about Blair and his govts behin...
Mar 30, 2021•2 hr 26 min
Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode, which deals with the following subject matter: Rubbish mid 2010s "satirical" television show The Brink, Karen Fennell's Promising Young Woman and its co-star, the hated Bo Burnham, radium poisoning, politically vs - well - comically salient comedy and the Mel Gibson/Walton Goggins festive confected-classic Fatman.
Mar 30, 2021•6 min
the conclusion of our conversation with special guests Aarjan (@aarjanistan) and Nikita (@jeremywhorebyn) of @leftoverpod about Keith Rodney Starmer and his historically poor leadership of the criminal organisation masquerading as "the Labour Party". sidetracks on all the legends of popular music; Oasis, Neil Young and Freddie Gibbs. once again produced by @hikikonormie
Mar 06, 2021•59 min
As stalwart supporters of Keir Starmer since the creation of Adam & Eve 6000 years ago, it gives us no pleasure to have to do this, but our hand was forced into getting together with our friends Nikita (@jeremywhorebyn) and Aarjan (@aarjanistan) of the LeftOver podcast to call for the resignation of "Sir "Keir" in the strongest terms, as his troubled leadership hits its lowest ebb yet. The fabled twenty-point lead has not materialised, and so the time has come to ask "should Starmer go?" and...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear this full episode, featuring Yair/Jack on Nightcrawler (2014), Buzzard (2014), The Cremator (1969) and Hollywood war films.
Feb 26, 2021•5 min
in the RP debut of new producer Sarah Sahim (@hikikonormie on Twitter), Sarah produces a Jack-Yair-Geraint conversation on seminal early-00s cop drama The Shield, a show that lived and died on the razor's edge of hot-button issues like police brutality, the blue wall of silence, political ladder-climbing, repressed homosexuality and, most importantly, baldness. Embracing our melt roots, we present two separate readings of Charlie Brooker's contemporaneous reviews of the show. All in all, it gets...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Jack is going to the hospital to get his ailment checked out...here's Geraint with friends of the show @KlezmerRouge and @johntheduncan on Sinan Kose's Twitch stream the other day. https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr 39 min
we check in on character actor and Mel Gibson collaborator Eddie Marsan, who continues to put the "melt" in "meltdown" with a seriously defamatory Twitter thread about leading underworld figures "The Corbyn Brothers"
Feb 16, 2021•37 min
GapeCast writers/stars Jack Frayne-Reid and Farages Fucked Face joined Sinan Kose on his popular Twitch stream last week to talk about the show and its whole sick, twisted extended universe. Not long into the protracted stream, Geraint joins the crew. Meanwhile, Sinan plays a game called Tropico 6, which is not named after the headquarters of the FBI. GapeCast is discussed, but so is much more besides.
Feb 08, 2021•3 hr 2 min
Subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour+ episode. continuing what appears to be developing into a loose series on the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, Jack and Yair give his 2018 TV series Who Is America? a largely positive appraisal, without mentioning co-writer Lee Kernt even once PLUS: Jack's Neil Young bootleg project, and recent penchant for generic cop shows
Feb 04, 2021•8 min
from the patreon.com/reelpolitik archives depraved individual Farages Fucked Face on a lifetime of trolling, writing GapeCast, the distilled evil of Jerry Lee Lewis, and the sad & tragic life of Robin Thicke
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 5 min
This is the audio of a recent stream on our friend Sinan Kose's (@TheSinanKose on Twitter) Twitch channel - https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader. Jack & Sinan Kose review the recent book by Chris Clarke, the son of former New Labour minister Charles Clarke (the one with the ears), 'The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master'. Bitterly wounded by a lifetime of hard left trolls pointing out that his dad voted for the Iraq War and various anti-civil liberties legislation, Chris identifies closely on ...
Jan 27, 2021•3 hr 19 min
Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode. Our next Patreon exclusive will - like our new free episode - feature Nate Bethea of Trashfuture fame. Once again, happy new year to all - we're back in fucken business! Edited/produced by Yair with extra production by Jack on the Neil Young section, this conversation takes us all the way back to the end of November, when Yair had been watching the films of Ari Aster and Jack was knee-deep in Lucinda Williams' Lu's Jukebox performanc...
Jan 26, 2021•4 min
After a short break around Christmas, RP are back, and we mean business. This mammoth two-hour episode - probably the longest in ages - finds us all guns blazing, and this time dealing with some completely insubstantial material of absolutely no consequence; the dreadful American TV drama series Designated Survivor. The show is an ineptly pulpy work of US imperialist propaganda that Jack flatly describes as evil, such is its stubborn refusal to contemplate that the US may ever not be 100% in the...
Jan 12, 2021•2 hr 8 min
Faced with spending a lonely Christmas all alone at the Ilford South MP's Mansion, the luminous Cownadu, Mike Gapes vows to have the best Christmas of all time, as that'll show Corbyn and his Chinese communist friends, who created an entire pandemic specifically to inconvenience the most hard-done-by individual in the world, Michael Gapes. Cheerful reminiscences are shared about a Gapes child's Christmas in Wales, service as a guard at a Japanese POW camp in WWII and nights spent stealing milk f...
Dec 29, 2020•22 min
drawing inspiration from unproblematic fave Phil Spector, we present A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU FROM REEL POLITIK - your one-stop shop for all your festive discourse needs, in which Christmas and the wider festive season are never alluded to even once. instead - more Trump bullshit! whether political art is "more relevant than ever"! Jack reviews Tenet, as well as JK Rowling's melt detective TV show! creepy Kevin Spacey and his sexy sojourn to a Blair-era Labour Party conference with Epstein and Bi...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full thing. Jack and Yair talk about some genre stuff they've watched recently - the Haunting of Bly Manor, The Invisible Man - Jack gushes with praise for top Scientologist Elisabeth Moss and covers Led Zeppelin very badly.
Dec 20, 2020•3 min
In a GAPECAST inspired by the 1971 Ozsploitation classic Wake In Fright, non-Ilford man John Grant is marooned in the one-horse town of Ilford South after he falls asleep on a train; a place where the only respite from the drudgery of the data mines comes from sinking pint after pint of strong milk, and the only excitement from the occasional cow hunt. Whilst this also sounds idyllic enough, there's a deep, dark underbelly to Ilford South rather like that of a cow itself, which even its revered ...
Dec 12, 2020•45 min
On the messy transition between two fascist AmeriKKKan regimes. Produced by Yair.
Dec 01, 2020•44 min
Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour of RP! Full title: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Ilford South Compiled by Yair from our latest movie roundup, it's Jack and Yair on Borat's Subsequent Moviefilm, how it compares to the even more convolutedly titled 2006 original, and how it reflects the liberal worldview of its creators. We initially didn't plan on doing a full episode on this flick, but it looks like we got enough material together fo...
Dec 01, 2020•4 min
on Corbyn's readmission to the Labour Party and subsequent suspension from the Parliamentary Labour Party by moral criminal and state fascist Keith Starmer. where's the birth certificate, "Keir"?
Nov 21, 2020•56 min
Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour-long episode. The final instalment of Jack & Yair's latest movie roundup: on arch-creep Bryan Singer's "Nazi next door" thriller Apt Pupil, Jordan Peele's socially conscious Twilight Zone reboot, Kathryn Bigelow's terrific early/mid-period films Point Break and Blue Steel and her sad decline into CIA propaganda, the enduring comic value of This Is Spinal Tap, and Netflix's recent southern gothic drama The Devil Next Door.
Nov 11, 2020•5 min
Jack talks to Jacobin's Daniel Finn (@DanFinn95) about Starmer's war on the left and the fallout of the EHRC report; the political rationale for his suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, why JC deserves our solidarity, and the left's insufficient response.
Nov 08, 2020•1 hr 42 min
Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full thing. An exhausted Jack, fresh from interviewing comrade Dan Finn for a future edition of the show, checked in with our man in Montana, Official RP Joint American/Jewish correspondent Yair Rice, to see what's happening in the US presidential race. Throughout, Jimothy Baker provides us with updates on the fraught political situation live from Ilford South prison.
Nov 05, 2020•3 min
In possibly the first RP ever to go out without a single edit (ok the "hard left" intro was added afterwards), Jack and Yair discuss the US election, including important factors like the songs Donald Trump plays at his rallies and the independent campaign of Kanye West. Jimothy Baker, Ilford investigative journalist extraordinaire, also calls in to give us some dispatches from that key battleground state, and Jack performs a variety of musical numbers.
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Thursday saw the release of the EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour Party, and Keir Starmer's subsequent outrageous politically motivated suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, the state fascist and moral criminal's latest act of war on the left. Jack sat down with Yair to pick his brain on what it like to be a Jewish Corbyn supporter at the moment, what the whole conversation about Labour antisemitism feels like to someone living outside the UK, and the cruel demand that he choose between his ide...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 31 min
From the RP vaults, here is all the material we recorded on Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire's Left Out that didn't make it into our two official episodes on the book. The bulk of this bonus material comes from the sessions for our previous Patreon exclusive, the Farages Fucked Face-featuring episode 'Cry For St James' (from before FFF joined the call). In this conversation, we go through some of the more "factually dubious" elements of the book; the ones which had been disproved even befor...
Oct 27, 2020•2 min
The second and final (except for the forthcoming BONUS PATREON EXCLUSIVE) part of our deep dive into the Times' Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire's book on the fall of the Corbyn project, 'Left Out', in which Geraint (@wariotifo) and Jack talk Remain, spooks, turncoats, centrist apartheid apologia, competence and lack thereof, the possibility of Blur/Oasis-style head-to-head Gapes/Milne memoir publication, and the book's dishonest depiction of the false notion that Corbyn "laid a wreath for ...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode. Yair & Jack on The Shining (1980), The Shining (1997), Doctor Sleep (2019), Castle Rock (2018-present) and the whole Stephen King extended universe, plus similar reboot/prequel thing Ratched (2020-present), its source material One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next (1975) and the assorted hackwork of Ryan Murphy. Produced by Yair.
Oct 13, 2020•5 min
The first part of the official RP review of Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund's Left Out, the two Times journalists' recent book on the decline and fall of Corbynism.
Oct 11, 2020•1 hr 9 min
