A film podcast from the team behind The Skinny magazine, looking at the wide world of The Movies.
Episodes
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
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
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
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
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
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
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
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
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
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
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
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
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
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
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
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)
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
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
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)
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
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
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
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