S4E39.5: The Irishman

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This is a preview of a Bonus episode! You can find the whole thing, as well as our 5-year backlog, on our reasonably-priced Patreon! This week on the Kill James Bond Podcast, we return to the Brains Dojo. The Irishman is Martin Scorsese's sprawling adaptation of I Heard You Paint Houses, a 2004 book detailing the trueish story of Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman who was potentially the guy who killed Jimmy Hoffa. Set during the long tail of the 20th century, The Irishman conceives of all modern American history as one immense unfolding crime spree committed by backstabbing, self-interested morons. And hey, is that so inaccurate? ----- FREE PALESTINE - With the ceasefire in full effect, the media has returned to ignoring the daily atrocities in Gaza. My friend Ahmed still needs to feed his family and afford medicine. Anything you can kick in would be hugely appreciated.https://chuffed.org/project/150817-please-help-ahmed-and-his-family-get-food-drink-and-medicine And these are some more general links you can support collective efforts with! -The Palestinian Communist Youth Union is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestinehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotillahttps://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla alsohttps://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/----- Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the everything app account

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of Kill James Bond.
0:20.7	I am November Kelly, and I'm joined
0:22.4	as always by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon. Hello, gentle listener. Powerbonga. How are we feeling
0:29.1	today, friends? As we embark on a three and a half hour movie. I'm sorry.
0:38.3	I'm very sorry.
0:40.3	Listen, we've been doing Fast in the Furious movies for 16 years.
0:44.3	This feels like water in the desert to me to get to do like a really good movie.
0:49.3	And unfortunately I picked a really long one.
0:52.3	I've also kind of fucked myself specifically,
0:54.8	because the only way I get time off is to like cram more work into less time so that I've
1:00.6	done last week's work this week, or whatever. So because I wanted a week off, I'm recording
1:08.6	this back to back with Fast 9. I'm making us all do two long recordings,. I'm recording this back to back with Fast 9.
1:11.0	I'm making us all do two long recordings, and I'm so sorry.
1:15.9	Actually, I liked that this film is as long as it is, and I went into it being intimidated
1:20.7	by the length, but then I was like, it's good that it's this long.
1:24.6	It's so important that it's this long. Yeah, the longer ones tend to scare me too, but like... It should be this long. Yeah. Yeah. I thought the longer one scared me, but I end up enjoying them more in the long run. So like... Yeah, the longer ones always tend to scare me. I think it's more about what you do with the runtime. That's true. That's really just hits all of the spots you want it to hit.
1:45.1	That's the stuff that I'm talking about.
1:47.1	I feel very similar to the last three plus hour movie you made me watch in starting to talk
1:53.0	about this one.
1:54.7	I feel like I've seen a masterpiece and I am ill-equipped to expound on it because I've
2:00.4	seen it too recently.
2:02.4	I feel like I should have watched this half a year ago to talk about it today.
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