Reel Politik Podcast

Listen to the full episode + read this week's RP newsletter by subscribing @ patreon.com/reelpolitik Jack and Yair talk about Darren Aronofsky (particularly his films Pi and Noah) and review the films Standoff at Sparrow Creek, The Housemaid, Who Will Stop The Rain? and It Happened Here. PLUS: Jack's regular RP newsletter, detailing our slate of forthcoming releases.

Gapes is called to a mob sitdown with the four bosses of London's criminal underworld, each of whom happens to be a Blairite celebrity of varying stature; namely Eddie Marsan, Frances Barber, Tony Robinson and JK Rowling. But does Michael have a cunning plan in store? With Mr Richard Miller in disguise as crack mob mediator "Sexy" Stephen Stephens, Gapes listens solemnly to the gangster geezers co...

From Greece, to Chile, to Uruguay, to the Third Reich, if right-wing totalitarianism has ruled a land then Costa-Gavras has probably made a film there, or in a more politically friendly country that can pass for there. Focusing on his masterpieces Missing (1982) - about Pinochet's military coup of Chile in 1973 - and State of Siege (1972) - about the kidnapping of a US "diplomat" (read: torturer)...

Mike wakes up in a mysterious room, with no idea how he got there. Has he been kidnapped? Or is he, perhaps, caught up in a cloning experiment gone wrong? The phone rings. If Gapes wants answers, picking up the call is his only hope. But little does he know, he's gonna get a little more than he bargained for.

Jack's staying in. Special guest Pete/McCats (@tonepolicing) is out. Geraint is on the fence. Today, the motion up for debate on our famously ideologically pluralistic podcast is; should those of us on the hard left of politics stay in the Labour Party, as it veers sharply to the right under the new leadership of The Right Honourable Sir Kier "Keir" Starmer QC OBE #FBPE MI5? Listen, and decide whe...

In the twelfth GAPECAST, a farcical chain of events ensues. Investigative reporter Jimothy Baker is at Ilford's illustrious Hotel Capitol to meet a top informant, Mike Gapes' identical body double Kevin Narrows. Meanwhile, top Gapes aide Richard Miller, who looks and sounds exactly the same as Jimothy, is there so Gapes can dictate his new film treatment to him, 'The Life & More Life of Major Zepp...

Listen to the full episode by subscribing at patreon.com/reelpolitik (direct link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-rp-mpm-per-37009294) Yair and Jack review QT8: The First Eight by Tara Woods (2019), One Hour Photo by Mark Romanek (2002), and Stanley Kramer's films Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) and R.P.M. (1970). Produced by Yair.

Jack and Geraint do not actually review any books, but - joined in the first of two episodes by friend of the show and national hero Pete AKA McCats (@tonepolicing on Twitter) - do discuss three topics pertaining to literature. First, the Guardian's weirdly bitter red-baiting hitpiece against popular (and left-wing) author Sally Rooney. Then we discuss one of the hot-button issues of recent days -...

Listen to the full episode @ patreon.com/reelpolitik - subscribe for $5 a month (you can actually pay less if you want to, or even more!) and you'll get this and shitload of other exclusive RP content. Jack reviews the new Bob Dylan song, I Contain Multitudes, with Yair in tow. The song's literary influences are addressed, namely Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Na...

Wired up to the eyeballs with state-of-the-art recording equipment, Mike Gapes and his personal bodyguard Sir George Gwath venture boldly up northwards to the cursed badlands of Ilford North to confront its tyrannical MP, the "Clown Prince" Wesley Streeting, about the expansion of McDonald's to Southern Ilford, and end up giving the cocky young upstart rather more than he bargained for.

A year and a bit on from our vast exploration of *all* the work of Clint Eastwood, we resume our exploration of the American Hero's oeuvre by looking at his second-most recent film as director, and most recent as star, 2018's The Mule. It's an all-singing, all-shooting, all-shagging feast of reverie and the original trifecta of RP hosts - including the return of Tom Foster, absent for our episodes...

Produced by Yair Rice, this RP movie roundup sees he and Jack reviewing a number of films, including three tonally reminiscent short films (Ari Aster's The Turtle's Head, Matthew Holness' A Gun For George and David Lynch's WHAT DID JACK DO?), horror anthology The Field Guide To Evil (2018), Michael Haneke's Cache (2005). Johnny Depp's The Brave (1997) and two films in which he stars - Bruce Robins...

In GAPECAST #10, we rewind to December 2019, in the aftermath of the corrupt rigged election that replaced Gapes as Ilford South MP with Corbyn's Candidate, Sam Tarry. "Rewind" is the operative word, because this tale unfolds in reverse (you know, like the film Memento) with one scene after another taking us from the end of the story, back to the very beginning. Written once again by seasoned Ilfo...

Geraint and Jack read through the Labour Party's 850-page leaked document 'The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 - 2019', which shows - put charitably - an arguably factionally-motivated negligence from the party bureaucracy in dealing with antisemitism cases, a litany of bigoted comments and exchanges, and the efforts of some senior Labour HQ s...

Meth, milk, murder, magic & mayhem. Sounds like a standard day on the mean streets of Ilford, with the feral sex youths and Gape Goons clashing violently in a bloody generation-spanning gang war. However, you take the man out of Ilford, but you can't take the Ilford out of the man. This is the full story of Mike Gapes and his loyal aide Richard Miller's fateful trip to Las Vegas, after which a Nev...

From the depths of his opulent manor Cownadu, Michael Gapes brings his loyal listeners three tales of the unexpected - of man and man's best friend, of a sprawling realm of lost cities, of the (presumed) late Mr Richard Miller. Don't listen to this little Gapecast anthology with the lights out!

We have long warned that, by depriving the left of a viable electoral voice, we might see a sad backslide by socialists everywhere into a conspiratorial view of the world. Now, with today's election of Keir Starmer as Labour leader, we can see the tragic implications of this defeat in full. Here are 90 mins of RP on the JFK assassination, encompassing the myriad, often wildly contradictory theorie...

Mike finds a mysterious body in the drawing room of Gape Manor AKA Cownadu, and sets to work getting to the bottom of this mystery most foul. (NOTE: We had to re-upload this on copyright grounds, replacing Audrey's Dance from Twin Peaks with something that sounds a bit like it.)

Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour of new RP. Hello comrades! We hope you're all holding up ok and don't have coronavirus and, if you do, we wish you a speedy recovery! Geraint suggested that we release the raw recording of Gapecast #3, from the sessions for Episode 145, because we had so much fun reading Mr Jimothy Baker's mad, mad words for the first time. That constitute...

Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years. This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you. Mike Gapes

Recorded 100 days into the tyrannical reign of the hated Boris Johnson and his illegitimate fascist government, and not actually concerning Pasolini's Salo (1975), RP145 is an episode of two halves - Geraint's half is a reading of historian Dominic Sandbrook's feverish fantasy of Jeremy Corbyn's first 100 days as prime minister, as published in friends of the show the Daily Mail. Jack, meanwhile,...

Drawing inspiration from his avant-garde forefather John Lurie's laconic 1990s fishing TV series Fishing With John - the soundtrack of which was repurposed for this recording - Gapesy presents a laid-back guide to his top tips for quarantine cuisine. In a post-apocalyptic situation such as now, it's all the more important to band together and learn how to economise, and Mike will lay out here how...

GAPECAST host Michael John Gapes is joined for an exclusive, intimate conversation in the basement bunker of Gape Manor by his former colleague in the parliamentary parties of Labour and Change UK The Independent Group, Chris Leslie. Chris tells Mike what he's been up to since losing his seat in December, and why he's hiding out in Ilford rather than in his own constituency.

In our third Gapecast in as many days, Mike tells of his upbringing in postwar Vienna, with its Strauss music, glamour and easy charm. He looks back to some of his formative experiences as a man - of his sexual awakening, and of how he was first alerted to the awesome power of milk.

In the second GAPECAST, Mike tells tales of the old Vienna, and dives deep into the mythology of the Ilford Extended Universe as he gives us a guided tour of the opulent Ilford South MP's Manor, Cownadu. This is #cribs, Gape Style. Thanks to investigative journalist supreme Mr Jimothy Baker for helping Mike with his script on this one.