A film podcast from the team behind The Skinny magazine, looking at the wide world of The Movies.
Episodes
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
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
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)
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 Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
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
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
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
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
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
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
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