A film podcast from the team behind The Skinny magazine, looking at the wide world of The Movies.
Episodes
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
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
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
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
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)
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Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
This week, we discuss the hyper-stressful work drama Full Time, the ubiquitous Local Hero, and a collection of films about, ahem, smart-mouth city folk going to the countryside.
Also, Anahit finds Zorro in Corstorphine, Jamie plays 'Defamation Bingo', Lewis recommends a YouTube banger, and Peter gets interrupted by a motorbike. Twice.
Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall: https://ehfm.live
TIMESTAMPS:
What We've Been Watching (Winter Boy, Defunctland, Mark of Zorro) (01:00)
Full Time review (05:40)
Local Hero's 40th anniversary (15:30)
City Slickers in the Country chat ft Our Daily Bread, Groundhog Day, Runaway Bride and more (25:20)
TICKETS FOR MEDUSA DELUXE: https://theskinny.co.uk/tickets
Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on TikTok and Twitter @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 May 04, 2023
Thursday May 04, 2023
Peter, Jamie and Lewis decamp to a meeting room for an old school pod full of fun times, serious film discussion, and a weird hissing that mostly goes away.
We discuss the excellent Return to Seoul, namecheck some of our favourite pop cinema franchises, talk a lot about a giant half-man half-ant, and get the lowdown from Jamie on Alchemy Film Festival in Hawick.
TIMESTAMPS
Alchemy Film Festival (01:00)
Return to Seoul review (11:05)
Pop cinema – Pirates of the Caribbean, Final Destination, The Transporter (22:55)
Matinee preview aka Mant review (40:45)
TICKETS FOR MATINEE: https://theskinny.co.uk/tickets
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
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Polite Society is a martial arts comedy family drama. Sick of Myself is about two massive narcissists. Renfield is 'the worst film Jamie's reviewed on the podcast'. All this energy, and more, in a neat 48 minutes.
Get ready for a high-octane, sweary and chaotic speedrun through the cinema, answering such questions as 'which one is Nosferatu?' and '*how* much for a non-working toy camcorder from the late 90s?!?'
TIMESTAMPS
Polite Society, Nida Manzoor's banger of a debut (1:00)
Sick of Myself, aka Worst Person in the World: Sicko Mode (9:20)
Renfield, a Dracula film that is Not Very Good (17:35)
Draculads on Tour: some of the best and most interesting Draculas and Dracula-adjacents in film and TV (29:20)
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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