Red Rose Film Club Podcast

28/02/2025

Starting with our next episode, we’re doing a three episode series on movies about the Spanish Civil War! First episode of the series (PAN’S LABYRINTH) dropping soon!

19/01/2025

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE🚨🚨

Hal and Craig discuss the 1988 film HAIRSPRAY. We talk integration, the fear of white suburbia, and the ineffable charm of John Waters, the Godfather of Filth!

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27/10/2024

Spooky season continues and Hal and Craig watched Wes Craven's 1991 horror-comedy The People Under the Stairs. We discuss how the economic policies of Ronald Reagan (and his putrid Wormtongue Milton Friedman) led to our current housing crisis. Discussion also includes:

- Our favorite Wes Craven films;
- The bombing of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza and Palestinian martyr Shaban Al-Dalou;
- Some books we're reading: "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein and "When the Clock Broke" by John Ganz;
- Other recent viewings including "The Apprentice", "The Substance", and "Wolfs"; and
- Ving Rhames' all-time great lines.

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24/08/2024

New episode drops on Sunday! We're starting a three episode series on films about Italy and fascism!

07/05/2024

Check out our newest episode! We talk INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) and red scare paranoia, discover peak Jeff Goldblum hotness, gas up the brave college protestors, discuss the Kendrick vs. Drake beef, and determine if Sydney Sweeney has cured us of wokeness!

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Phillip Kaufman's 1978 adaptation of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, & Jeff Goldblum. Discussion also include: the Kendrick Lamar v. Drake beef; the continued crackdown on Pro-Palestenian protests; Irving Adler, a communist math teacher,

03/12/2023

NEW EPISODE of Red Rose Film Club!

Hal Gentil and I are continuing our series on the conservative fantasies of S. Craig Zahler. This time we watched BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, Zahler's attempt at a 70s style prison exploitation flick. Discussion also includes:
- Henry Kissinger is dead (YAY!);
- The Daily Wire released an anti-trans "comedy" film called LADY BALLERS (BOO!);
- Upcoming movies we're geeked for: THE IRON CLAW, THE SWEET EAST, POOR THINGS, and FERRARI;
- What makes an exploitation film?

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Continuing our series on the films of S. Craig Zahler and their bizarre depiction of a violent, conservative utopia/dystopia. We watched BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, Zahler's attempt at a prison exploitation flick. Also: the death of Henry Kissinger, one of history's greatest villains; the Daily Wire ha

05/06/2023

In the newest episode of Red Rose Film Club, Hal Gentil and I welcomed our friend Thomas Greene to discuss Clint Eastwood's 2014 film AMERICAN SNIPER, starring Bradley Cooper. This episode begins a three episode conservative movie series called MAKE MY DAY, where we will look at three late-career Clint Eastwood films. Discussions also include:
- Clint Eastwood's best performance ever: screaming at a chair at the 2012 RNC;
- Elon Musk going full mask-off;
- Craig conquers some personal demons regarding how he rates films on Letterboxd;
- Our guest Thomas gave us some necessary context around the Sunni and Shiite conflict in Iraq;
- And the return of our favorite game: Did Armond White Like This Movie?

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In this episode, Hal and Craig invite Thomas Greene to discuss Eastwood's 2014 jingoistic war film AMERICAN SNIPER. Discussions also include: Clint Eastwood's best performance ever: screaming at a chair at the 2012 RNC; Elon Musk going full mask-off; and Thomas gives us some necessary context around

23/04/2023

New episode! Hal and Craig have reconvened to discuss TERROR ON THE PRAIRIE, the third and (so far) final narrative film produced by conservative darling and full-time adult man Ben Shapiro and his merry gang of bigots over at the Daily Wire. Discussions also include:
- Harlan Crow, Clarence Thomas' political sugar daddy with a weird Hi**er obsession;
- The shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis;
- MLB Baseball and the recent rule changes;
- Craig's performance in a short film nearly 20 years ago, with a VERY tenuous connection to the world of the Daily Wire

05/03/2023

Episode 8 of the Red Rose Film Club is live and we are going back to Benny-Wood!

Hal and Craig welcome their first guest, Lauren Brenzel, to talk about SHUT IN, the second film from Ben Shapiro and his gang of merry propagandists at the Daily Wire. Discussions also include:
- The downfall of Dilbert (as well as Dogbert & Catbert);
- HBO’s The Last of Us;
- The New York Times opinion page’s crusade to sanitize Ron DeSantis;
- Does Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER count as a home invasion movie?

Hal and Craig welcome their first guest, Lauren Brenzel to discuss SHUT IN, the first film fully produced in-house by Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire. Discussion also includes: the downfall of Dilbert (as well as Dogbert & Catbert); HBO’s The Last of Us; the New York Times opinion page’s crusade

18/01/2023

In the new episode of Red Rose Film Club, Hal and Craig discuss Robin Campillo’s BPM, an unflinching look at grassroots activism during the height of the AIDS epidemic, following members of Act Up Paris in the early 1990s as they plan direct action against the pharmaceutical companies and politicians who exacerbated the crisis. Other topics of conversation include:

- Our Top 5 Movies of 2022
- Craig is exasperated at why none of the characters in Godfather III were weirded out by the film’s cousin/cousin romance;
- Hal explains Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ attempts to give himself sweeping executive power;
- DeSantis’ war on public education;
- And the return of our OG Conservative Reaction segment: “Did Armond White Like This Movie?”

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Hal and Craig discuss Robin Campillo’s BPM, an unflinching look at grassroots activism during the AIDS epidemic, following members of Act Up Paris in the early 1990s as they plan direct action against the pharmaceutical companies and politicians who exacerbated the crisis. Other topics of conversa...