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.

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

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

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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.

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[VIDEO VERSION COMING SOON]

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

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 increasing desperation and inability to book big guests. This time it's a two-hander, in which I sit down with him to watch a documentary about Japanese idol culture, which aired as part of the BBC's Storyville series under the name TOKYO GIRLS in 2017. We do live commentary on the whole film, but before that we chat a little about movies and even some politics.

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 and cranny of his deceptively vast body of work. while giving ample time to the stuff everyone likes, like Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive. RIP to one of the greats.

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

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NEW JFR-CURATED NEIL YOUNG MIXTAPE ALSO EXCLUSIVELY ON THE RP PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nyaa-vol-1-neil-121498257

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 back a decade in Mad Mel's career, to when he benefited from the ludicrous stunt casting of Robert Rodriguez's Machete films.

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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 tragically brief filmography, came out as their own thing. This bonus episode also features another classic RP Skype screen-share moment as FFF shows Geraint and I a clip from a movie where Matthew Perry teaches some inner-city kids about America's early presidents through the medium of rap music (I, in turn, recommend Bulworth to him, following my earlier recommendation of Cimino's Clint Eastwood-starring directorial debut Thunderbolt & Lightfoot). - JFR