Clint Eastwood's RICHARD JEWELL (2019): A Reel Politik Audio Commentary
In the continuation of our "New RP Canon" series, Jack, Geraint, Yair and FFF watch Clint Eastwood's 2019 masterpiece RICHARD JEWELL, a searing indictment of an unfeeling deep state, the lying fake news media, and women's duplicitous ways.
NEXT IN THE SERIES: We resume our Mel Gibson historical epic season with THE PATRIOT.
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Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary
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 - first attempt at commentary/tech issues
00:24:13 - commentary begins in earnest
03:21:13 - outro
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Jack FR calls into Top Rope Deep Dive 09/03/2025
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
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PREVIEW: Introduction to CHINATOWN / The New RP Canon
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 majority of our commentaries). join us as we watch a very great film by a very bad man, and talk about important issues such as public ownership of utilities and the Chinese.
as is now standard, I'll be posting (almost) the entire intro (plus, on this occasion, the outro) to our free feed [EDIT: this, the thing you are looking at now] as well as a video version of the commentary to this Patreon shortly. we'll be recording something else in the next few days, on which I'll give an update on the status of the podcast and why we've mostly just been doing movie commentaries and shit like that lately. but rest assured that we are deeply committed to building our "New RP Canon" of seminal motion pictures.
LISTEN TO THE FULL COMMENTARY HERE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/123984352?pr=true&forSale=true - BY SUBSCRIBING AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK
[VIDEO VERSION COMING SOON]
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PREVIEW: An Introduction to GRAN TORINO (2008)
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 length forty-minute introduction in which we go through pretty much every Clint movie since 2003's MYSTIC RIVER (AKA this free preview) join us as Eastwood novice FFF is introduced to some of the greatest work of a man truly after his own heart.
LISTEN TO THE FULL COMMENTARY HERE ON THE PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/clint-eastwoods-122854401
VIDEO VERSION OF COMMENTARY ALSO AVAILABLE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/clint-eastwoods-122857426
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