Reel Politik Podcast

Mar 24 2025 477 ep. 59 mins 2.3k
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Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary

Mar 24 2025 203 mins  
We've been doing our "New RP Canon" movie commentary series as Patreon exclusives, but @wariotifo requested that his first pick, Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART (1995), be released in its entirety for free. Join us as we reject the crooked facts of lying English historians and venture back into the heroic annals of true Scottish history with our good friend Mel. 00:00:00 - intro 00:19:11

Jack FR calls into Top Rope Deep Dive 09/03/2025

Mar 09 2025 92 mins  
with G. Wariotifo mysteriously absent (Taliban?), Reel Politik head honcho Jack Frayne-Reid seizes on the opportunity to hijack the Top Rope Deep Dive wrestling stream to talk about things other than wrestling for an hour and a half WATCH TOP ROPE DEEP DIVE EVERY SUNDAY @ https://www.twitch.tv/MarkedAsRed

PREVIEW: Introduction to CHINATOWN / The New RP Canon

Mar 08 2025 35 mins  
well, I polled our Twitter followers on which film they wanted us to cover next in our commentary series, and Polanski nation (Poland?) won out decisively, defeating other hot prospects such as Ridley Scott's The Counselor and the enticing "Extreme Prejudice ft. FFF" (the Fuckedman is in tow once again here, and will be joining us as an auxiliary member of the show for at least a m

PREVIEW: An Introduction to GRAN TORINO (2008)

Feb 21 2025 35 mins  
FFF joins me again (not in a numbered episode...because it's just TOO GOOD) for another entry in our ongoing Reel Politik Audio Commentary Series on the movies that made us the foul & debased creatures we are today. This time it's Clint Eastwood's GRAN TORINO (2008), a film about a man and his car, the changing face of the American city, and How Guys Talk To One Another. With a le

PREVIEW: Episode 324 - Introducing Jack To Japanese Idol Culture (ft. FFF)

Feb 21 2025 16 mins  
HEAR THE FULL EPISODE/COMMENTARY BY SUBSCRIBING AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-324-jack-122635113, OR WATCH ALONG WITH US IN OUR VIDEO COMMENTARY: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tokyo-girls-2017-122644976 Low-key subscriber-only fully listed episode today! Farages Fucked Face is back for his fourth appearance on RP in 2025, in a sign of our incre

Episode 323 - David Lynch In Memoriam (ft. Lilah @palebloodstasi)

Feb 15 2025 100 mins  
Lilah @palebloodstasi (formerly @leechwaifu) returns to the show to pay tribute to the great DAVID LYNCH, the indescribable director, writer, sonic sculptor, visual artist, musician, meditation guru, actor and general polymathic artistic genius, who died a month ago on January 15th. In the classic wide-ranging, structureless RP style, we try our best to dig into every obscure nook

PREVIEW: RP322 Extra - Hateful 88

Feb 05 2025 3 mins  
in an exclusive preview of an old school Jack/Yair movie chat, Jack talks about how The Hateful Eight has become his favourite film by noted Israel supporter Quentin Tarantino HEAR THE FULL BONUS EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp322-extra-88-121490669 NEW JFR-CURATED NEIL YOUNG MIXTAPE ALSO EXCLUSIVELY ON THE RP PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nyaa-vol-1-neil-121498

Episode 322 - Death Camp NIMBY

Feb 02 2025 60 mins  
With death stalking the land, Jack talks to RP US Correspondent Yair Rice about the start of Donald Trump's second presidential term, his imminent immigration crackdown, the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, and Trump's appointment of Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as "special envoys to Hollywood". Plus, we watch Keir Starmer's message of congratulations to Trump, and look

PREVIEW: RP321 Extra - Going Deep On Rourke & Cimino (ft. FFF)

Jan 28 2025 5 mins  
SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK AND HEAR THE FULL BONUS EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp321-extra-deep-121057412 Whilst our potted run through Mickey Rourke's "imperial phase" appeared in the main Year of the Dragon episode, I thought it would be a tighter episode if these discussions of Rourke's more variable-in-quality later work, as well as Michael Cimino's t

Episode 321 - Year of The Dragon (ft. FFF): THE CHINA CUT

Jan 28 2025 7 mins  
The much-ballyhooed "CHINA CUT" of our most recent episode. ORIGINAL EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In the final part of a trilogy of episodes featuring regular guest Farages Fucked Face, Jack, Geraint and FFF review Michael Cimino's 1985 crime drama YEAR OF THE DRAGON, a film about how the Chinese invented the concept of the mafia a thousand years ago and have been perfecting it ever since