Episode 156 - A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (PATREON PREVIEW)

Listen to the full episode by subscribing @ patreon.com/reelpolitik Yair and Jack ON more shit to do with antisemitism and the Holocaust - David Simon's HBO adaptation of Philip Roth's Plot Against America, the BBC's 1997 queer Holocaust drama Bent. Then more shit to do with the JFK assassination - spaghetti western The Price of Power, a 1969 film that transposes the details of the Kennedy conspiracy onto the comparable assassination of President James Garfield, Ted Kennedy drama Chappaquiddick, and the TV adaptation of Stephen King's JFK counterfactual 11/23/1963. Jack reveals the origins of his pet phrase, the title of this episode, then talks about one of his favourite films, John Sayles' Texas small town drama Lone Star (1996) and does a quick overview of Sayles' work, and then gives quickfire reviews of Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen, the late Stuart Gordon's David Mamet-written Edmund, and the absurd Peter Sellers comedy The Magic Christian. (This episode is fun but I didn't mention it in the newsletter the other day because I forgot it existed. Produced by Yair! - Jack)