A film podcast from the team behind The Skinny magazine, looking at the wide world of The Movies.
Episodes
Thursday May 29, 2025
Thursday May 29, 2025
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)
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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
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
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
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
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
Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
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
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
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
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
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
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
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
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
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
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
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
Thursday Jan 30, 2025
Thursday Jan 30, 2025
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