Reel Politik Podcast

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 scre...

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 t...

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 (@waluigi...

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...

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...

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...

RIP Twitter Failing site Very sad and tragic what's going on there.

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, a...

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', '...

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 201...

"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...

music & some lyrics: Neil Young new lyrics: Jack Frayne-Reid

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 de...

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...

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 h...

(Previously released on the RP Patreon. Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik) Your latest RP movie roundup, in which Jack and Yair review the following films: - It: Chapter Two (Andy Muschietti, 2019) - Us & Them (Joseph Martin, 2017) - The Day Shall Come (Chris Morris, 2019) - El Camino (Vince Gilligan, 2019) Plus we have a little bit of Joker pre-chat, before we review it in depth on a future ep...

Musician, broadcaster and all round friend of the show Emmett Cruddas AKA roof access(@roof__access on Twitter) joins Jack (@gapesology) once again to run through the rest of the filmography of director supreme Bernard Shakey AKA Neil Young. We talk about Young's later directorial projects: the well-intentioned but inept anti-Iraq War documentary CSNY/Deja Vu, and the strange mimed eco-rock opera...

The new album by the rock and roll band Crazy Moose. All songs written, performed & produced by Jack Frayne-Reid. Artwork by Yair Rice. TRACKLISTING: Side One: 1) Side Two 2) Tombstone Bones 3) Fickle 4) Fucking Vindicated 5) Talking Thunder Side Two: 6) Pall Fell Over The Earth 7) I Need The Sky 8) Hunting For A Feeling 9) I Can Live With It

Reel Politik Series Seven kicks off with the kind of staggering indulgence only RP would dare to get mired in: it's the 90+ min first volume of a two-parter on legendary rocker Neil Young's *ahem* divisive side-career as a director. Welcome to the Neil Young Film Festival! Joining Jack (@gapesology) to go where no self-respecting film critic has gone before is Emmett Cruddas (@roof__access) - musi...

a tribute to all the outlaw podcasters out there & really the whole outlaw podcasting scene

FROM THE ARCHIVES! Our first ever Patreon exclusive, now unlocked after more than a year for the general public. Subscribe for more content of this estimable quality @ patreon.com/reelpolitik Original description: A commentary on the auteur Sylvester Stallone's 1985 red-baiting magnum opus, featuring Jack, Tom F, Yair and MIKE. Produced by Tom F with additional production by Jack.

Recorded back-to-back with Episode 112 - Milk Over Matter, Messrs Rice & Frayne-Reid present the latest entry in the Reel Politik reading series; a full reading, with commentary, of Robert Webb's seminal 2013 column for the New Statesman, "Dear Russell, choosing to vote is the most British kind of revolution there is", a response to fellow comedian Russell Brand's political revolution, set out in...

In the latest of what should hopefully become our regular movie roundups, Jack and Yair first get a couple of non-cinematic topics out of the way: the death of Robert Mugabe, and the shitty reactions from right-wing western idiots, plus left Twitter's ongoing Britpop wars, and what it means to be an author in 2019 when even Stephen King isn't deemed to have sufficient name recognition to get on a...

the new single by chart sensations Crazy Moose

In what'll likely be the last RP before we're off to The World Transformed to cavort with Gape Nation and hobnob with the great and the good of the hard left, writer and New Socialist culture co-editor Rhian E. Jones joins Jack - who holds the same position at NS - and Geraint, to review the great Mike Leigh's most recent film, last year's Peterloo, and talk about the historical events that inspir...