The Cineskinny

On the latest episode of The CineSkinny, we take a wild trip with a ruthless tycoon (Benicio del Toro), his deeply moral daughter (Mia Threapleton) and his Swedish tutor-cum-secretary (Michael Cera) in Wes Anderson's breakneck espionage comedy The Phoenician Scheme.  We come back down to earth with the urgent and enraging documentary The Encampments, which takes us inside the Palestine solidarity campus encampment at Columbia University that became a focal point last spring in the fight against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And inspired by The Encampments and the upcoming SAFAR Film Festival, each member of the team recommends a great Palestinian film. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Julia & Julia; Taskmaster; Feel Good (1:40) The Phoenician Scheme review (12:08) The Encampments review (32:05) Palestinian cinema: It Must Be Heaven, Gaza mon amour, 5 Broken Cameras (48:52) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at Ground Floor, Leith – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

Greetings The Cineskinny listeners - before our next full episode drops, here's something else you might like. It's a new Scottish music podcast, it's called MUSIC NOW, and the first episode is an interview with the amazing piper and composer Malin Lewis. Here's a clip about songwriting and making a new instrument basically from scratch – links to the full episode below. Godspeed, enjoy, more film chat soon xx SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kvLAfixelglrrF5gofXgj?si=0f3146df83884aab APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-now-the-music-podcast-from-the-skinny/id1815765281 

A bumper pod this week –  we review Amalia Ulman's Magic Farm about a bunch of hipster journalists getting lost in Argentina, and India Donaldson's Good One about a v v awkward intergenerational camping trip. But that's not all! We also dig into Wes Anderson's ornate cinematic toolbox ahead of The Phoenician Scheme, so we're talking family, casting, animation, etc etc. But that's still not all! Jamie inspires some Final Destination-style catastrophising, and Anahit's been back on the Love Is Blind tip so that's in there as well. And that's all. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Final Destination Bloodlines, Love Is Blind UK, Earth Girls Are Easy (2:20) Magic Farm review (16:15) Good One review (29:10) Wes Anderson, cinema's fanciest lad (40:00) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at Ground Floor, Leith – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On this week's pod, two hot, hot movies. First up, Sinners, Ryan Coogler's sexy Southern Gothic vampire flick set in Jim Crow-era Mississippi. It's got two Michael B Jordans, it's got epic musical sequences, it's got exquisite period detail, it's got spit sharing, it's got a smart and thorny race analogy at its heart, it's got great actors bringing their A game, it's got wonderful post-credit scenes and, did we mention, it's got two Michael B Jordans.  Similarly sexy and sweltering is Motel Destino, a neon-lit tropical noir from Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz. And inspired by Sinners, the team choose their favourite films set during parties or big nights out where things go off the rails. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Blue Velvet, April, GFT's Derek Jarman and Chantal Akerman retrospective, Manhunter (2:20) Sinners review (13:42) Motel Destino review (31:28) Theme: Nights Out Gone Awry (Carrie, Festen, The Invitation, Coherence, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) (41:36) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In a change to our usual format, we review only one film this episode: the French coming-of-age film Holy Cow. Set in Jura, in the east of France near the Swiss border, it follows a wild 18-year-old lad who has to grow up fast and learn how to make some award-winning Comté after a family tragedy. The rest of the episode sees Peter, Anahit, and Jamie discuss what they've been watching on the big and small screen recently, from Black Bag and a Jacques Tati classic to Adolescence and White Lotus via a goofy-sounding show we're pretty sure Anahit has made up. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Movies (Black Bag, Uptown Girls, Playtime) (2:14) Holy Cow review (17:08) What We've Been Watching: TV (Adolescence, White Lotus, Paradise) (25:34) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week, we review Bong Joon-Ho's latest – Mickey 17 stars multiple Robert Pattinsons and Mark Ruffalo doing what we're assured is not an impression of any named individual. We also dive into the lovely 3D animated waters of Flow, Oscar-winning animation and, fun fact, the highest grossing Latvian film of all time.  Elsewhere, we interrogate horrid visions of surveillance, intrigue, subterfuge and suspicious gender politics, but eventually we do *stop* talking about Love Is Blind and talk about dystopias in cinema instead. The Cineskinny; we had you in the first half, not gonna lie.  TIMESTAMPS: Love Is Blind, Picture This, Good Time (2:10) Mickey 17 review (11:30) Flow review (29:45) Dystopian Cinema chat (39:40) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On this edition of The CineSkinny we take a look at two of the most anticipated Scottish films of the year. First we review On Falling, the deeply impressive feature debut from Edinburgh-based director Laura Carreira.  And fresh from his second feature Tornado having its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival, we have an interview with John Maclean who talks about westerns, samurai films, and the challenges of indie filmmaking in Scotland.  Elsewhere there are a couple of great film festivals (Glasgow Short Film Festival, HippFest) we wanted to give shout-outs to, and we take a look at some filmmakers who are attempting different distribution models that involve taking their films on intimate tours of the country. We also briefly chew over the Oscar results. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Walking & Talking, Disney Channel original movies, Common Side Effects and more (1:49) On Falling review (14:18) GSFF, HippFest, The People's Joker and Hundreds of Beavers (32:30) Interview: John Maclean on Tornado (50:10) Oscar chat (1:07:50) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Glasgow Film Festival is one of the most exciting times in Scottish cinema, so this week we dive headfirst and two-footed into the GFF programme with a trio of reviews and some additional chat. We discuss Marie Losier's art doc Peaches Goes Bananas; talk through the excellent Austrian comedy Peacock; and luxuriate in the lo-fi animation of Boys Go To Jupiter. Elsewhere, there's a weird smell, Jamie gets annoyed by people taking their jackets off too slowly, and Peter starts the campaign for a new podcast. It's The Cineskinny, drink it in. TIMESTAMPS: GFF: A beginner's guide (2:20) Peaches Goes Bananas (6:40) Peacock (15:05) Boys Go To Jupiter (24:10) More GFF picks 33:40 GFF, 26 Feb - 9 Mar, glasgowfilm.org Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

With the film world mourning the loss of David Lynch, the most original and influential American filmmaker of the late 20th and early 21st century, The CineSkinny pay their own tribute by tracing a line through his career from Eraserhead to Blue Velvet to The Straight Story.  We also review two new releases: Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a surprisingly propulsive drama exploring Iran's patriarchal regime through the prism of one family, and Adam Elliot's Memoir of a Snail, a downbeat and whimsical stop-motion film from Australia. TIMESTAMPS: HippFest 2025 (1:25) The Seed of the Sacred Fig review (5:45) Memoir of a Snail review (22:20) Our celebration of the one and only David Lynch (35:50) Recorded at Ground Floor, Leith – eh.fm/live Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

In a departure from our regular scheduled programming, it's the panel from our Queer Cinema Sundays screening of Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime at Glasgow Film Theatre. The sound quality is a bit patchy but our boy on the 1s and 2s has done his best – if you're a fan of Dolan's films, yearn for a bit of chat about some of queer cinema's current leading lights from Celine Sciamma to Luca Guadagnino, or just want to know what it would sound like if Peter genuinely did get trapped down a well, give it a blast. Queer Cinema Sundays: https://www.glasgowfilm.org/queer-cinema-sundays/ Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The podcast is back, and we're having just as much fun talking about the films as ever (medium-to-high). For a first pod back, we chat Nosferatu, Babygirl and the new Wallace and Gromit, talk through our holiday rewatching, and look ahead to some of the films on the 2025 schedule. The cinema, it lives on! TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching (4:30) Nosferatu review (13:30) Babygirl review (26:05) Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review (35:40) 2025 preview, ft new Edgar Wright, Lynne Ramsay and more (46:10) Recorded at Ground Floor, Leith – eh.fm/live Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

It's our now-annual recap of the year as Anahit, Jamie, Ellie and Peter pick out some of the favourite performances, moments, needle drops and hot boys of the past year in the kino. You know we love Challengers and Love Lies Bleeding, but did you know we also loved a slept-on Koreeda banger, a queer time-hop costume drama and shouting about bad romcoms? You did? Well this'll be right up your street... TIMESTAMPS: Underrated and surprising films of 2024: Timestalker, Monster, Occupied City, Red Rooms, The Wild Robot (1:30) Big Swings and Weird Sequels: The Substance, Megalopolis, 2073, Madame Web (24:35) Stupid, Sexy Cinema: Challengers, Love Lies Bleeding, Orlando: My Political Biography (43:30) Fun Ones: Evil Does Not Exist, Irish Wish, Look Back (1:00:30) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The Earth has almost done another of its rotations of the Sun, so once again it's time for The CineSkinny team to take a whistlestop tour of the films that The Skinny's film writers voted as the best of the year. It's an eclectic list that takes us from Poor Things to The Zone of Interest, via I Saw the TV Glow, Kneecap and Anora.  The full team – Anahit Behrooz, Ellie Robertson, Jamie Dunn and Peter Simpson – are here, and we also get some cameos from some of The Skinny's film writers – Rory Doherty, Josh Slater-Williams, Emilie Roberts, Tony Inglis and Carmen Paddock – on their favourite titles.   Take a listen to find out which film was crowned number one for 2024. The Skinny's Top Ten films, upon which this whole pod is based: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion/the-skinnys-films-of-202https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion/the-skinny-films-of-2024 Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM's Ground Floor Studio in Leith – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Additional sound effects courtesy of https://pixabay.com

Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig team up to adapt William Burroughs in Luca's second film of 2024, Queer, so we talk about that. Elizabeth Sankey draws the line between society's flawed understanding of post-partum mental health and society's flawed understanding of witchcraft in new doc Witches, so we talk about that as well. And Grand Theft Hamlet is *sort of* what it says on the tin, in that it's a late pandemic doc about loneliness, futility, community and aliens in fighter jets. Naturally, we talk about that too. Gang's all here, throw in a bit of chat about David Lynch and Fran Drescher and baby, you've got an episode of The Cineskinny goin'. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching – The Nanny, Emilia Pérez, Blue Velvet (2:30) Grand Theft Hamlet review (10:15) Witches review (25:50) Queer review (39:35) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week we review two films from directors who like to shine a light on communities on the margins. First up, we take a look at the coming-of-age drama Bird, the sixth feature film from Andrea Arnold. It concerns a young girl named Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who thinks she's met a kindred spirit in the title character Bird, played by Franz Rogowski. But all is not as it seems.  Next, it's Anora, the eighth feature from Sean Baker, which won the coveted Palme d'Or earlier this year. The film introduces us to Ani (Mikey Madison), a dancer at a New York strip club, whose life gets turned upside down when she spends a whirlwind week with a gawky Russian playboy, Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn).  And as both Anora and Bird are notable for their ambitious tonal shifts, we take a look at some of our favourite (and least favourite) tonal shifts in cinema. TIMESTAMPS What We've Been Watching - horrors (The Blob, The Ring, Immaculate), Juror #2 and Gilmore Girls (2:17) Bird review (10:42) Anora review (25:10) Our favourite tonal shifts in movies ft Sorry to Bother You, Mute Witness, Laura, Psycho (39:13) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

The great Francis Ford Coppola spent 40 years and $120 million of his own money making the epic saga Megalopolis. Was the years of toil and expense worth it? We also look at two stunningly original documentaries concerned with art: Mati Diop's Dahomey, which follows the process of 26 royal treasures being returned from France to their rightful home in Benin; and Mark Cousins's A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, a poetic celebration of the undersung Scottish modernist artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. And given that Tilda Swinton narrates Cousins's film and will also appear soon in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, we thought it a good time to discuss the career of this extraordinary Scottish actor.  TIMESTAMPS What We've Been Watching - films on planes, The Iron Claw, Our Friends in the North and LFF films (2:18) Anahit reviews LFF (11:55) Melalopolis review (19:10) Dahomey review (36:00) A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review (51:10) The great enigma that is Tilda Swinton (01:03:29) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Two great Scottish films this week: The Outrun, the big screen adaptation of Amy Liptrot's book with a great starring turn by Saoirse Ronan, and Since Yesterday, a documentary celebrating the forgotten girl bands from Scotland's musical past. We review those two, then go all punchy-jumpy-shouty with some chat about action cinema in honour of a new restoration of Point Break and a BFI season of action classics. Slide down the stairs and kick your best friend tenderly in the face, it's The Cineskinny. TIMESTAMPS What We've Been Watching - Twin Peaks, My Own Private Idaho, Chinatown (1:20) The Outrun review (13:35) Since Yesterday review (28:40) Action Cinema: Adventures of Robin Hood, Point Break, Hard Boiled, Rush Hour and others (44:40) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This time, we're talking about one of Anahit's favourite films of all, Tarsem Singh's 2006 opus and Tumblr's Favourite Film™, The Fall. It's back, it's in 4K, and it's grrrreat. Elsewhere, we talk about the less successful but still-ambitious In Camera, and look back on some of filmmaking's biggest swings. Terrence Malick, Tommy Wiseau, big piles of white powder and on-retainer helicopter pilots – finally, a conversation with something for everyone. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: The Third Man, Lee, Twilight (2:10) In Camera review (9:50) The Fall review (23:10) Filmmaking follies: The Room, Days of Heaven, The Blues Brothers (37:40) Recorded at EHFM's Ground Floor HQ in Leith. Get a coffee and see radio/audio in action, @groundfloor__ Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

We're talking about obsession on this week's podcast after falling for the curious Quebecois courtroom drama/tech thriller Red Rooms. We also delve into a film that crosses two circles on The CineSkinny's Venn diagram of interests: folk horror and creepy puppets. That film is the 70s-set British horror film Starve Acre. We also receive a missive from Anahit, who's attending Venice Film Festival, where the weather is hot. Will that be the same case for the films, though? Note: this episode has a post-credits scene. TIMESTAMPS: Venice Film Festival: Babygirl, Queer and The Brutalist (2:38) Starve Acre review (7:27) Red Rooms review (24:23) Films about obsession: American Psycho, Peeping Tom and The Vanishing (41:49) Recorded at EHFM's Ground Floor HQ in Leith. Go there, get a coffee and see radio/audio in action, @groundfloor__ Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On the latest episode of The CineSkinny, we take a look at the blistering Kneecap, an irresistible piece of myth-making from the firebrand Belfast rap trio of the same name. The film follows best friends, drug dealers and wannabe rappers Liam and Naoise (also known as Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap) as they avoid the Belfast ‘peelers' and a group of ex-paramilitaries out to get them before teaming up with local music teacher JJ, who helps hone their sound as their producer, DJ Próvai. The film's got wildly inventive visuals, a razor-sharp political message and enough drug-fulled energy to power the sun.  Elsewhere on the show, we hear about Alien: Romulus, the 79th film in the Alien franchise (at least it feels like it), which helped kick off this year's Edinburgh Film Festival. And inspired by the rebellious antics of Kneecap, we discuss our favourite rebels in cinema, from Nae Pasaran to the hot fox in Disney's Robin Hood. TIMESTAMPS: What we've been watching: Longlegs and lots of Fringe shows (1:57) Alien: Romulus review (12:00) Kneecap review (19:41) Our favourite rebellions in film: Nae Pasaran, School of Rock, A Fistful of Dynamite, Robin Hood and Andor (45:55) Recorded at EHFM's Ground Floor HQ in Leith. Go there, get a coffee and see radio/audio in action, @groundfloor__ Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The Edinburgh Festivals are back, baby, and there's none more relevant to this podcast than the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Ahead of opening night, Peter, Ellie, Anahit and Jamie discuss Nathan Silver's Between The Temples, Alice Lowe's Timestalker, and Maryam Moqadam and Behtash Sanaeeha's My Favourite Cake.  Because it's Festival time, we also make some Fringe recommendations, forget people's names repeatedly (pre-emptive apologies to Carol Kane) and come up with daring new ways of counting up to five. It's wild, it's feral, and it's only getting hotter, it's The Cineskinny. TIMESTAMPS: Edinburgh Film Festival first thoughts (1:35) Between The Temples review (6:45) Timestalker review (23:00) My Favourite Cake review (33:20) Our Edinburgh Fringe picks (45:55) EIFF, 15-21 Aug, programme and tickets: https://www.edfilmfest.org/ Recorded at Codebase, Peter's apologies for any weirdness on the audio. EHFM's Ground Floor HQ is now open, go get a coffee and see radio/audio in action, @groundfloor__ Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On this week's podcast, the gang review two great new films with very different perspectives on the trans experience – Levan Akin's Crossing, and Jane Schonebrun's I Saw The TV Glow. Jamie gives his first thoughts on the EIFF programme, we all pitch in on The Bear season three (crossfade one more time, I dare you, I double dare you mother-), plus a few more bits and bobs. Massive shout-out to EHFM, on our final visit to their venerable Summerhall studio. Next time you hear us, we'll be in another studio (probably the new EHFM one, timelines permitting). ehfm.live, the only good radio station. GFT's CROSSING COFFEE AFTERNOON WITH OTTOMAN COFFEEHOUSE: https://www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/crossing TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching - The Bear, Maxxxine, Problemista (1:20) Crossing review (13:20) I Saw The TV Glow review (25:10) Edinburgh Film Festival first thoughts (44:30) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On this week's show, we've been watching films centred on gender-non-conforming characters.  We're looking at Orlando, My Political Biography, which is a playful essay film about trans identity from Spanish philosopher Paul B. Preciado, and Unicorn, a British drama about the relationship that forms between a straight mechanic from Essex and a drag performer from a conservative Indian family in Manchester.  And off the back of these two films, we're gonna end the show considering some interesting trans and gender-fluid films from film history. TIMESTAMPS: Bad Sisters, Sunset Boulevard, Our Friends in the North and Inside Out 2 (4:09) Orlando, My Political Biography review (16:14) Unicorns review (31:36) Trans cinema: Paris is Burning, Tangerine, The Naked Civil Servant and Tomboy (45:39) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

We're back to a full complement this week for a B-movie bonanza. Russell Crowe is back on his anti-demon beat in The Exorcism (bad), Dale Dickey is out for revenge in The G (better), and we all chat about some of our favourite genre movies. Anahit fills us in on Lina Soualem and Hiam Abbas' new documentary Bye Bye Tiberias so we can keep our arthouse credentials, then we fling it all away talking about the Minions and whether or not it's good to eat mud. For your consideration, it's The Cineskinny. TIMESTAMPS: WWBW: Bye Bye Tiberias, Fried Green Tomatoes..., Interview with the Vampire, Minions: Rise of Gru (2:00) The Exorcism review (14:20) The G review (27:15) Films With No Right To Be This Good: House, Pacific Rim, Speed Racer, Detour, The Running Man (40:10) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

We're going to be talking about a really big expensive movie and a tiny indie film on this week's show, but coincidentally they are both about marauding gangs of road warriors fighting over natural resources, so there's definitely a bit in common there. That big film is George Miller's bombastic revenge saga Furiosa, and the smaller film is Weston Razooli's nostalgic kids' adventure fantasy Riddle of Fire. And as it's Pride month, we pick out some of the best LGBTQ+ films playing at Glasgow Film Theatre and Edinburgh's Cameo throughout June, as well as suggesting some lesser-spotted queer films you should watch at home this month. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: The Matrix, Working Girl and Netflix series Scavengers Reign (1:08) Furiosa review (10:27) Riddle of Fire review (23:00) Our pick of the Queer films (in cinemas and at home) for Pride (40:32) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

George Mackay is one of the most interesting young actors from these shores and a firm CineSkinny favourite. We were massive fans of Mackay's recent film, Femme, from last year, and barely an episode goes by on the pod without us mentioning the wonderful Pride. Back in March, we sat down with Mackay while he was visiting Glasgow Film Festival for the UK premiere of The Beast, a heady sci-fi romance spread across three timelines. We chat to him about The Beast, AI, his favourite film roles and having to act in French opposite Léa Seydoux. Have a listen! TIMESTAMPS: Introduction (0:05) How Mackay chooses his roles (1:58) How he got the part of Louis in The Beast (4:55) Working with writer-director Bertrand Bonello (9:15) What Mackay took away from the script (9:58) Learning French for the role (15:05) Working with Léa Seydoux (18:38) The rise of AI (20:30) His favourite of his own films (24:00) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded on location at Glasgow Film Festival Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod  (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

This time on The Cineskinny, we go running in the fields of streaming cinema. Anahit reviews Hit Man (good!), Jamie joins her for The Idea of You (bad! and weird!), then the whole gang discusses the good, bad and ugly of the streaming revolution. How many of Netflix's top ten films are actually elaborate pranks on this podcast? More than you'd think! We also discuss the inventive, intriguing and v freaky British debut Hoard ahead of its release in cinemas. It's a fun one this week – come for the serious film chat, stay for Jamie's list of 'older women he likes'.  TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Lost, Baby Reindeer, Blue Sky, Triangle of Sadness (1:45) Hoard review (12:35) Hit Man review (22:30) The Idea of You review (28:05) The Great Streaming Glut, aka Where Have All The Good Rom Coms gone? (35:15) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On the latest episode of The CineSkinny we go raking around in Etruscan tombs with a very sexy Josh O'Connor and his band of rapscallion grave robbers in La Chimera. We then head to 90s Edinburgh to revisit Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave. Does it still feel fresh 30 years later? Was renting in Edinburgh a nightmare back in 1994 too? Can Ewan McGregor actually act? Tune in to find out. We end the show by celebrating Film Twitter man of the moment Josh O'Connor. Not only is he brilliant as a melancholy Indiana Jones in La Chimera, he's also riding high at the box office playing a cocky tennis pro in Challengers. We look back at his short but impressive career, from God's Own Country to The Crown. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Buffy, Mary & George, Back to Black and John Tucker Must Die (1:12) La Chimera review (7:12) Shallow Grave review (20:35) In praise of Josh O'Connor (36:48) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

It's been sunny in Edinburgh for the first time in weeks. We recorded two hours later than usual. Challengers is a very hot film. One or more of these may explain the slightly feral nature of this week's podcast, in which we review freewheeling US 'satire' The Sweet East and Luca Guadagnino's latest, as well as playing the film nerd equivalent of Fantasy Football in honour of the Glasgow Film Festival's 50th anniversary (fans of Kurosawa, Panahi and Rex the Dinosaur, we will programme your cinema, speak soon xx).  TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Next Goal Wins, Civil War, Men In Black (2:00) The Sweet East review (16:20) Challengers review (29:10) GFT at 50, Filmhouse, and our perfect day at the cinema (38:40) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week we dive into the hallucinogenic world of Disco Boy, which stars European arthouse cinema's current It boy Franz Rogowski as an undocumented Belarusian immigrant who joins the French Foreign Legion. We also take a look at Evil Does Not Exist, the latest from Ryusuke Hamaguchi. This Japanese filmmaker has amassed a cult following but he's still to convince some of our hosts on the pod. Will Evil Does Not Exist change their minds? And with Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher getting a 25th-anniversary rerelease this month, we look back at the four feature films to date from this visionary Scottish filmmaker. TIMESTAMPS: Monster, Mr and Mrs Smith (2024), Sex, Lies & Videotapes and Irish Wish (1:50) Disco Boy review (10:55) Evil Does Not Exist review (23:54) The films of Lynne Ramsay (37:30) CINESKINNY FILM CLUB TICKETS: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In honour of Hayao Miyazaki bagging his second Oscar, Peter, Ellie and Jamie take a speedrun through the Ghibli back catalogue. Come with us and we'll meet some magical woodland creatures, smash the fash, do a whole load of flying and catch up with some hot boys along the way. We also look ahead to Glasgow Short Film Festival and HippFest which begin... oh crikey... now. Go to them! Listen to this episode on the way! TIMESTAMPS: Jamie's GSFF and Hippfest previews (1:15) Studio Ghibli pt 1: The Wonder Years (Castle In The Sky, My Neighbour Totoro etc) (6:40) Studio Ghibli pt 2: Let's Get Weird (Porco Rosso, PomPoko and more) (28:30) Studio Ghibli pt 3: More Wonder Years (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle) (45:45) Studio Ghibli pt 4: Late Stage Ghiblism and The Boy and The Heron (1:00:15) CINESKINNY FILM CLUB TICKETS: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

With the 20th edition of Glasgow Film Festival nearing its close, we sat down with two of our favourite critics, Carmen Paddock and Rory Doherty, to discuss this year's proceedings We also review GFF's blistering opener Love Lies Bleeding, share our Viggo Mortensen stories and review the mind-bending new film from Bertrand Bonello, The Beast. Plus Rory and Carmen pick out some of their GFF highlights. Glasgow Film Festival runs 28 Feb-10 March, get full details at glasgowfilm.org TIMESTAMPS: Self-care, After Hours and retrospectives (1:15) Love Lies Bleeding review (9:37) Viggo Mortensen loves Glasgow and The Dead Don't Hurt review (18:55) The Beast review (29:34) Rory and Carmen's favourite films of GFF 2024 (39:21) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow Rory and Carmen on Twitter @CarmenChloie and @roryhasopinions, get us on TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at Upload Studios, uploadstudios.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Another missive from the Glasgow Film Festival. On this one, we chat with the mighty Viggo Mortensen. Yes, Aragorn himself! The Lord of the Rings and A History of Violence star was in town for the UK premiere of The Dead Don't Hurt, a sinewy western that Mortensen wrote, directed, composed the music for and starred in.  Set in the 1860s in a small Nevada outpost, The Dead Don't Hurt is both a beautiful homage to the great westerns of the past and a subversion of this most macho of film genres. It centres on the romance between Mortensen's character Olsen, a Danish carpenter, and Vivienne, a fiercely independent French-Canadian woman who grew up dreaming of being Joan of Arc, played by Vicky Krieps. Mortensen and Krieps are an acting match made in heaven. They're ably supported by a cast that includes Danny Huston, Garret Dillahunt, and the young Scottish actor Solly McLeod, who plays a brutish psychopath who will change Vivianne and Olsen's lives forever.  The day after The Dead Don't Hurt's UK Premiere, we sat down with Viggo Mortensen and his young co-star Solly McLeod to discuss the film.  TIMESTAMPS: Jamie introduces The Dead Don't Hurt (0:05) Viggo and Solly's first impressions of Glasgow (1:40) Viggo's love of classic westerns (3:00) How Solly got cast (4:30) The film's non-linear structure (7:30) Working with Vicky Krieps (12:10) What Viggo learned from observing other directors (16:10) Sparks of inspiration on set (18:20) What Viggo and Solly are doing next (20:30) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded on location at Glasgow Film Festival Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod  (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

We're back at Glasgow Film Festival for some special episodes made on the ground at the festival. First up, we have a chat with Saint Maud director Rose Glass, whose blistering second feature, Love Lies Bleeding, opened the festival.  Love Lies Bleeding is a wonderfully lurid neo-noir thriller starring Kristen Stewart as Lou, the owner of a grimy gym in Nowheresville New Mexico, who begins a passionate romance with Jackie, an itinerant wannabe bodybuilder who walks into Lou's gym one day, played by Katy O'Brian. Lou and Jackie's whirlwind romance is short-lived though, as Lou's dysfunctional family, murky past and some roid rage combine to send the couple's life into a tailspin. Before Love Lies Bleeding's UK Premiere, we sat down with Glass to discuss this hugely entertaining 80s noir throwback. Take a listen. TIMESTAMP The initial idea for Love Lies Bleeding (2:07) Films that influenced on Love Lies Bleeding (5:24) Glass's obsession with the body and body horror (8:45) The writing process with co-writer Weronika Tofilska (10:42) Why Kristen Stewart was perfect for the role of Lou (12:05) Finding an actress who could play an 80s bodybuilder (13:26) Making a film that's unabashedly queer (17:25) How Glass likes to surprise her audience (20:12) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded on location at Glasgow Film Festival. Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod  (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The gang's all back, and this week we're talking all things Glasgow Film Festival. We've got vampires! Gunfights! Drag queens! Orthodox monks doing kung-fu! Other stuff! Ellie, Jamie, Anahit and Peter also have a chat about upstart film competition 'The Oscars', aka 'The Academy Awards'. See, they haven't even settled on a title yet, amateurs. Peter has a coughing fit, Anahit is jet-lagged and buzzed on Red Bull so won't stop playing with the sound effects, Ellie talks us through the finer points of animation studio politics, and Jamie tells us all about why Bradley Cooper shouldn't win an Oscar. It's The Cineskinny. TIMESTAMPS: The Oscars, aka 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Slag Off Maestro' (2:50) Glasgow Film Festival overview (12:35) The Vourdalak review (15:15) Jericho Ridge review (24:15) Solo review (30:50) The Invisible Fight review (43:00) Additional GFF picks (49:35) CINESKINNY FILM CLUB TICKETS: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

This week, we take a long hard look at Jonathan Glazer's excellent new film The Zone of Interest, then have a chat about some of the more unsettling films we've watched. In the middle, we talk through literary/race/politics satire American Fiction, and up top there's a bit of The News to shout out Glasgow Film Festival and Manipulate Festival. TIMESTAMPS: Manipulate, GFF and the Cineskinny Film Club (1:45) The Zone of Interest review (10:25) American Fiction review (25:45) Unsettling Cinema: Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, Mad God, Titane (41:20) CINESKINNY FILM CLUB TICKETS: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth etc) returns with the hugely anticipated Poor Things, adapted from Alasdair Gray's brilliant riff on Frankenstein. Are we angry he didn't set it in Glasgow? Did its sexual politics shock us? Do we rate Willem Dafoe's Scottish accent? Listen to find out. Also on the show, we review Andrew Haigh's devastating All of Us Strangers, and given that Lanthimos and Haigh have made bold adaptations that differ significantly from the books, we pick our favourite adaptations that bring something new to their source material. TIMESTAMPS: What Have We Been Watching (The Boy and the Heron, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Back to the Future etc) (3:18) Poor Things review (12:20) All of Us Strangers review (30:17) Bold Adaptations that Bring Something New – Under the Skin, Eyes Wide Shut, Ghost World, A Cock and Bull Story (44:02) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

It's our now-annual end of term wrap-up, as The Cineskinny gang discuss some of our favourite bits from the past twelve months. We're talking Music! Crochet! Kids! Chaos! Sexiness! All the classics... Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

It's the end of the year, sort of, so we're running through ten of 2023's best films. Peter, Jamie, Anahit and Ellie race through a list of challenging, exciting, engaging hits from the past year – with a pleasing number of narcissistic wrong 'uns for us to judge and mock. The Skinny's Top Ten films, upon which this whole pod is based: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion/the-skinnys-films-of-2023 The Cineskinny Film Club tickets: https://theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On this week's episode, we take a trip back to the halcyon days of 2006 for Emerald Fennell's Saltburn where Barry Keoghan brings chaos to a family of aristocrats. We also take a look at Tish from Edinburgh-based filmmaker Paul Sng, which acts as a tender portrait of unsung Tyneside photographer Tish Murtha.  And inspired by Barry Keoghan's very horny and freaky performance in Saltburn, the team chose their favourite little horny freaks in cinema. TIMESTAMPS: Saltburn review (3:45) Tish review (18:58) Our favourite little horny freaks in cinema – featuring the characters from Bottoms, Tom Hollander in Pride and Prejudice and Barbera Streisand in What's Up Doc? (33:20) The Cineskinny Film Club tickets: https://theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On this week's episode, we discuss two great new films – Molly Manning Walker's energetic and unsettling How To Have Sex, and Justine Triet's topsy-turvy courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. In honour of How To Have Sex's unflinching portrayal of a neon-soaked jaunt to Malia, Anahit, Peter and Jamie discuss some of their favourite on-screen holidays – a lot of Italy, a lot of poor decision-making, all the classics. TIMESTAMPS: How To Have Sex review (2:45) Anatomy of a Fall review (18:00) Holidays on screen – Only You, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Heartbreak Kid (31:10) The Cineskinny Film Club tickets: https://theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week we dive into one of the most anticipated films of the year with our review of Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese's epic crime drama depicting the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. And with the BFI launching their humongous Powell & Pressburger retrospective this week, we review their brilliant 40s romantic comedy I Know Where I'm Going! and recommend other Powell & Pressburger films to look out for in the season. TIMESTAMPS What we've been watching: London Film Festival, Super Mario Bros. (1993) and Rob Roy (1:50) Killers of the Flower Moon review (12:12) I Know Where I'm Going! review (33:55) Other Powell & Pressburger recommendations (43:25)  Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Jamie, Peter and Ellie revisit the bleeps and bloops of Blackberry, Matt Johnson's top-notch retelling of Research In Motion's rise and fall. Also this week, the gang enter the steam of the sauna for Estonian doc Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, then take an icy dunk in the waters of what Peter has dubbed 'big-brain business boys'. Your Patrick Batemans, your Ray Krocs, your fella from Aliens, etc etc. TIMESTAMPS BlackBerry review (1:30) Smoke Sauna Sisterhood review (17:20) Business on Screen, ft Aliens, The Founder, Dumb Money (26:55) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Things get a bit meta on this week's Cineskinny. Ellie and Peter discuss Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson's inventive and exciting documentary A Cat Called Dom, then we chat about Sebastián Silva's bacchanalian meta drama Rotting In The Sun. We share our favourite gigs on film, Peter loses it about halfway through but gets it back again, [add a third here explaining the chat section thanks x]. It's The Cineskinny, a good film podcast. TIMESTAMPS: A Cat Called Dom review (3:45) Rotting In The Sun review (12:15) What makes a good concert film? Stop Making Sense, Inside, Awesome; I F***in' Shot That! (26:45) Get tickets for our MUBI screenings at theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

On this week's podcast, Jamie, Ellie and Peter escape the heatwave with two films of varying quality – Celine Song's much-hyped Past Lives, and outsider artist doc A Life on the Farm.  We then get into a chat about films about films, cos we're cool like that, and Anahit saves the day by dialling in from Venice Film Festival. Molto bene, and so on and so forth. TIMESTAMPS: Past Lives review (01:55) We hear from Carmen Thompson of We Are Parable about new filmmaker programme Momentum (14:45) A Life on the Farm review (19:45) Anahit's Venice Diary (30:40) Films About Films (Day and Night, 8 1/2, The Sweatbox, The Blair Witch Project) (37:50) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

EIFF kicks off this week and we've two more films from the programme to preview: Passages and Scrapper.  And in honour of the blistering love triangle at the heart of Passages, we discuss our favourite love triangles on screen, which means we get talking about two hilarious and very sexy screwball comedies from 1940 starring Cary Grant: My Favourite Wife and The Philadelphia Story. TIMESTAMPS: Scrapper review (5:05) Passages review (17:25) Our favourite love triangles on screen: My Favourite Wife and The Philadelphia Stroy (32:26) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

It looked unlikely for a moment there, but we're delighted to see Edinburgh International Film Festival, one of the world's longest-running film festivals, return for its 76th year. We dig into four films from the programme, including Afire, the latest film from German master Christian Petzold, and Bette Gordon's feminist classic Variety, from 1983. TIMESTAMPS: EIFF is back – are we excited? (1:30) Closing film Fremont (8:10) Femme (15:55) Variety (25:35) Afire (38:21) More EIFF picks, Showing Up, The First Slam Dunk, Passages, Kill and more (48:45) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week, Peter, Jamie and Anahit (plus a remote assist from Lewis!) discuss the tale of one of the most pervasive and powerful forces even unleashed on the world, plus some film by that Inception lad about a sad scientist in a funky hat. Yes, it's Barbie and Oppenheimer, together at last – recorded in a real hurry to really give it that 'sugar rush, existential crash' vibe. Vive le cinema, and power to the striking writers and actors!  TIMESTAMPS: Barbenheimer as a cultural moment (2:00) Oppenheimer review (5:20) Lewis' Barbie review *a little bit spoilery* (17:00) The rest of the gang on Barbie (20:45) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

Two much-loved film franchises with ageing action stars charge into cinemas this week. Tom Cruise is back as super-spy Ethan Hunt to battle an omniscient AI in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, who's on the hunt for the Dial of Destiny with the help from Phoebe Waller-Bridge. We also take a look back on the best films of the year so far with the help of some members of the Skinny film team, namely Rory Doherty, Louis Cammell, Ross McIndoe, Carmen Paddock and Tony Inglis. The chat begins by digging into our highlights before veering off to discuss the state of film distribution more generally. Finally, with the programme for EIFF announced this week, we pick out a couple of highlights before our more in-depth EIFF preview show in August. TIMESTAMPS Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review (1:20) Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 review (14:40) Films of the Year so far... (20:55) - Blue Jean (23:40) - Rye Lane (27:20) - One Fine Morning (29:30) - Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (33:30) - Saint Omer/All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (34:20) - Tar (39:18) - How to Blow Up a Pipeline (40:25) - Skinamarink (42:25) The general state of film distribution in 2023 (43:50) First look at EIFF's 2023 programme (53:34) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This time, Wes Anderson rolls into Asteroid City with every actor you've ever heard of, Annie Ernaux narrates some of her archive video to mixed results, and we have a Solstice-inspired chat about Folk Horror.  Elsewhere, Anahit talks about aesthetic hospitals and Jamie shares his beef with a particular cinema chain who shall remain nameless. Classic Cineskinny, 10/10. TIMESTAMPS What We've Been Watching: Death Race 2000, Black Mirror, The Gallows Pole (2:50) Asteroid City review (16:20) The Super 8 Years review (30:35) Folk Horror: The Wicker Man, Apostle, The Village, Night of the Demon (41:40) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

We dive into the Spider-Verse with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The question is, can this sequel live up to the brilliance of the previous film? We also take a look a the glossy Chevalier, a sweeping costume drama based on the early life of French composer Joseph Bologne (aka Chevalier de Saint George), who was the first European composer of African descent. And off the back of Chevalier, we discuss some of our favourite period drama. TIMESTAMPS What we've been watching: Dungeons & Dragons; Big Boys (2:34) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (8:06) Chevalier (22:33) Our favourite period dramas (38:14) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license