Reel Politik Podcast

In a special bite-sized episode, our Westminster correspondent Kieran Morris (@hipsterscumbag) briefs Jack (@ubercoca) and Yair (@ysrice) on the latest rumblings from the corridors of power. We discuss drama in the Labour Party, beef in what counts for a left-wing media in Britain, what makes somebody a "pound shop" something-or-other, and our own Kieran and Jack's recent ideological realignments....

In our new episode, Jack and Yair review films including The Fear of 13, the Number 23, Weiner, Anthropoid, Carol, the Spectre of Marxism, the Spirit of '45 and Tony Benn: Will and Testament, as well as Owen Hatherley's book The Ministry of Nostalgia. Also discussed is the recent revelation that noted fascist M*lo Yishjidnaofsfasff is a massive nonce, the libertarian-fash intersection that provide...

In the second and final part of our disquisition on Martin Scorsese's storied body of work, we discuss his films from 1989 - in which he directed the short film Life Lessons for the anthology New York Stories - to the present day, including his new film Silence, which at least one of us (meaning one of us) has actually seen! We talk about his cameos in other directors' films, his career as a produ...

In the first instalment of a Reel Politik two-parter on the films of Martin Scorsese, Tom, Jack and Yair take a look at the first twenty-one years of filmography: from his 1967 debut, Who's That Knocking At My Door? (which, in all honesty, we actually forgot to talk about) to his 1988 masterpiece The Last Temptation of Christ, stopping off at classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Mean Stre...

With Kieran Morris in tow, Tom subjects he and Jack to the entirety of ghastly literal-not-figurative troll Rod Liddle's comprehensive 26-question Sunday Times magazine quiz, the object of which is to determine whether or not its contestants are part of the liberal elite. Guys...it's time for some game theory. Because we're playing a game. And we all quite like theory. Tbh I don't know what game t...

Recorded the same night as our infamous (AKA most recent) 'Enoch Had It Wrong' episode - which accounts for the poor audio quality - and realised to coincide with our beloved comrade @tomfoster94's birthday, this edition of Reel Politik delves into the political tumult of a wearing January; including Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States, the Labour Party's travails over im...

The sixth episode of our podcast sees the Reel Politik boys joined by the writer Kieran Morris (@hipsterscumbag) for a rousing discussion of the 1995 documentary Odd Man Out, which documents the life, senility and nativist "quirks" of the influential erotic poet, colonial conqueror and fascist Tory politician Enoch Powell, who invented the "full bladder technique" and helped legitimise racism in p...

In our latest episode we continue our discussion of party political broadcasts, this time branching out beyond the Labour Party to encompass the Conservatives, Greens, Liberal Democrats, Liberal/SDP Alliance, BNP, Britain First, National Front, Welsh Communists, Sin Fein and the IRA. We also discuss antisemitism in the Labour Party and things suffixed by "-gate". Podcast-listeners of the world, li...

Episode 4 - Labour Party Political Broadcasts by Reel Politik

The third episode of the Reel Politik podcast is a festive bumper episode, featuring boundless sweet, succulent #content to keep you entertained over the holidays, such as: - a recap of some of the year's films - a discussion of the cinematic oeuvre of the musical comedy trio The Lonely Island - a discussion of Christmas-themed cinema - a special new game called Cop or Comrade - and a chance to ca...

Reel Politik is a podcast by Tom Foster, Jack Frayne-Reid and Yair Rice, in which your three humble servants of the revolution struggle to determine whether works of cinema from through the ages are dialectically pleasing and, furthermore, ideologically correct, or whether they deserve to be consigned forever to the celluloid gulag. Paying penance for left-deviationist crimes, the condemned trio s...

Reel Politik is a podcast by Tom Foster, Jack Frayne-Reid and Yair Rice, in which your three humble servants of the revolution struggle to determine whether works of cinema from through the ages are dialectically pleasing and, furthermore, ideologically correct, or whether they deserve to be consigned forever to the celluloid gulag. Paying penance for left-deviationist crimes, the condemned trio s...

Some real muthafucking politik, comrades, coming soon to an internet near you. Reel Politik is a podcast by Tom Foster, Jack Frayne-Reid and Yair Rice, in which your three humble servants of the revolution struggle to determine whether works of cinema from through the ages are dialectically pleasing and, furthermore, ideologically correct, or whether they deserve to be consigned forever to the cel...