The Cineskinny (The Skinny)

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

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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)

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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)

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Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live

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We discuss the very good multiverse movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, the substantially less-good multiverse movie Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and the not-multiverse-but-still-excellent movie Benediction.

We also talk about the excellent Glasgow filmmaker James Price, and talk through the philosophical implications of the multiverse. Ignore them at your peril, The Cineskinny will get you.

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TIMESTAMPS:

Benediction (09:50)

Doctor Strange (22:10)

Everything Everywhere... (36:55)

The Multiverse: What Is The Point of It? (48:10)

James Price (63:10)

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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/

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Wilkommen and bienvenue to The Cineskinny! This time, we get extremely musical – a review of Moroccan hip-hop drama Casablanca Beats, a love-in for Cabaret’s impending rerelease, and a deep dive on the weird, freaky antics of the 1970s movie musical. We also get massively distracted by The Muppets, and Peter debuts his pretty dead-on C3PO impression. 

The Northman, Chess of The Wind, Star Wars (1:00) Casablanca Beats review (10:40) Cabaret at 50 (23:30) 1970s Movie Musicals discussion (35:30)

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Paul Verhoeven is back, and this time he's blasphemous!

Jamie, Anahit and Peter dive into the Dutch director's lesbian nun drama Benedetta, and rake through the entrails of Robocop, Basic Instinct and Total Recall to answer the question: Paul Verhoeven – a horny, crazy grandpa, or the horniest, craziest grandpa?

Elsewhere, Peter watches The Devil Wears Prada, Anahit goes on an Anya Taylor-Joy marathon, and Jamie has complicated feelings about the hit television drama Euphoria.

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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)

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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__

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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)

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

We look forward to three of the buzziest titles from this summer's festival circuit coming to cinemas over the next two weeks. There's Triangle of Sadness from Swedish director Ruben Östlund, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes; Decision to Leave, a silky piece of neo-noir from Korean director Park Chan-wook, which won Park the Best Director award at Cannes; And The Banshees of Inisherin, which sees Martin McDonagh reunited with ​​Colin Farrell and Brenden Gleeson; Farrell won Best Actor when the film played at Venice Film Festival.

All this great cinema coming out is soured, however, by the brutal closure of the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Filmhouse in Edinburgh and the Belmont in Aberdeen, which all closed their doors two weeks ago, seemingly for good, when the organisation in charge of them, the Centre for the Moving Image, collapsed due to insolvency. We discuss the devastating effect this will have on the Scottish film community.

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TIMESTAMPS

What We've Been Watching (1:45) Closure of EIFF and Filmhouse (11:29) Triangle of Sadness (27:45) Decision to Leave (36:32) The Banshees of Inisherin (43:29)

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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)

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Recorded on location at Glasgow Film Festival.

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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)

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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 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__

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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...

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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)

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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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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)

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Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live

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Anahit's written a book! BFFs is about the radical potential of female friendship, so your best podcast pals are here for a pals' chat about a pal's book (except for Jamie, who is waylaid on another project we'll tell you about later...)

Elsewhere, we take a big ol' honk on Hello Dankness, the latest from mash-up nouveau-agitprop legends Soda_Jerk, ahead of its Glasgow Short Film Festival screening, and Anahit fills us in on the lovely Rye Lane.

Thanks to the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival for sponsoring The Cineskinny! hippfest.co.uk

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching (Rye Lane, The Origin) (3:30) Hello Dankness review (9:50) BFFs chat (20:30)

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After a week off, The Cineskinny rides again with a bumper edition packed with horrible things, nice things, and a surprising amount of freebies.

We talk Finnish teen drama Girls Girls Girls, plan our own horror all-nighters in time for All Night Horror Madness, and we look back on Bryan M Ferguson's amazing short films ahead of showcases in Edinburgh and Glasgow. 

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TIMESTAMPS

What We've Been Watching (3:30) Girls Girls Girls (17:15) Bryan M Ferguson (29:25) All Night Horror Madness (40:45)

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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)

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This week, The Cineskinny gets that festival fever in an edition recorded live at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022.

We discuss opening film Aftersun, Korean car chase caper Special Delivery, and Peter Strickland's Flux Gourmet, plus Jamie chats to the lovely Will Anderson about his debut feature, A Cat Called Dom (which plays at EIFF on Fri 19 Aug at 7pm, so you should go and see that...)

We have guests! We have laughs! We had some gin! Listen along, and remember... The Cineskinny was recorded in front of a live studio audience.

TIMESTAMPS:

Aftersun, with Xuanlin Tham (2:10) Special Delivery, with Rory Doherty (18:00) Will Anderson interview (30:25) Flux Gourmet, with Carmen Paddock (43:50)

Recorded at Codebase; huge thanks to Hamish at Sound Sound for the tech help!

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It's part two of our Films of 2021 round-up! Find part one in your podcast feeds!

Jamie, Anahit and Peter return to discuss cool French kids, the power of good framing, ruining your life through desire, milk stealing in the old west, and... *checks notes* why Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is the funniest film of all time.

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THE SKINNY FILMS OF 2021 LIST: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion/the-skinnys-films-of-2021

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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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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)

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GFF is back, so The Cineskinny team take a large dive into the 2023 programme. We’re blowing up pipelines, we’re taking breezy trips to Madrid, we’re Liking Movies – here we Glas-go again, etc etc

Glasgow Film Festival runs 1-12 March, get full details and tickets at glasgowfilm.org

TIMESTAMPS:

How To Blow Up A Pipeline review (4:10)

I Like Movies review (15:05)

Ramona review (26:00)

Skin Deep review (35:05)

Additional GFF picks - more films, good bars, tasty falafel (44:45)

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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)

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This week, we hit the rails to discuss Juho Kuosmanen's new film Compartment No. 6 (11:25), try to get to the bottom of what makes trains so cinematic/ talk about some noir classics and the mighty Snowpiercer (24:10), and *checks notes* discuss The Academy Awards (43:00).

Choo-choo! The Cineskinny is off on another fun journey, powered by the chaotic energy you only get thanks to the awesome power of Remote Recording...

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Jafar Panahi's a legend. On this week's tech-afflicted episode of The Cineskinny, the whole gang crowds into a meeting room to discuss the excellent No Bears, and celebrate the Iranian director's incredible 'post-filmmaking-ban' run of films. 

Before all that, we review Billy Eichner's Bros and Henry Selick's new stop-motion movie Wendell and Wild. Peter goes off on a tangent about fish, the room gets hotter and hotter as we go on, and the mics each present their own problems, except for Anahit's lapel mic. It is, once again, The Cineskinny.----more----

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TIMESTAMPS

What We've Been Watching (w/ Peter's Fish Chat) (1:30) Bros (8:15) Wendell and Wild (20:00) No Bears (28:55) Jafar Panahi recap (38:05)

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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__

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Glasgow Film Festival is nearing its close, so we've asked two of our favourite critics, Iana Murray and Rory Doherty, to join us to share their favourite films of the festival.

We also review Sanctuary, a kinky chamber piece starring Christopher Abbott as a hotel heir who’s become reliant on regular bouts of humiliation, and Margaret Qualley as the dominatrix who clearly relishes making her client feel like a worm.

We also react to this year's Surprise Movie, which turned out to be War Pony, the debut feature from Gina Gammell and actor Riley Keough following parallel stories about two young Native Americans who live on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

Glasgow Film Festival runs 1-12 March, get full details and tickets at glasgowfilm.org

TIMESTAMPS:

War Pony (GFF's Surprise Film) review (2:32)

Sanctuary review (13:46)

Rory and Iana's favourite films of GFF 2023 (22:30)

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Peter and Jamie discuss Matt Reeves' new take on Batman, Jamie and Anahit talk through Sean Baker's excellent new film Red Rocket, and the whole gang airs their likes, dislikes, concerns and queries about the Superhero Movie Industrial Complex (SMIC).

TIMESTAMPS:

Intro, and some more Glasgow Film Festival picks (0:00) The Batman review (7:25) Red Rocket review (21:25) Our love/hate relationship with superhero movies, aka 'What Do We Talk About When We Talk About The Batman?' (34:35)

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The Cineskinny go festive this week, as we take a deep dive into the Edinburgh International Film Festival programme.

Strap in for chat about Antonio Banderas, fake trips to New York, beautiful and unexpected tales from Japan, and one of the oddest films we’ve ever reviewed on the podcast. Amanda Kramer, our hats go off to you.

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TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching (2:10) EIFF Intro (8:50) Official Competition (16:20) Millie Lies Low (28:15) My Small Land (38:50) Please Baby Please (48:10) Additional EIFF picks (59:45)

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In hilarious fashion, BlackBerry chronicles the rise and sharp decline of the world’s first smartphone. We down with writer-director and star Matt Johnson while he was attending the UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival to discuss the film.

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Jay Baruchel plays the naive inventor of the BlackBerry, Mike Lazaridis; Only Sunny in Philadelphia’s Glenn Howerton is fantastic at Jim Balsillie, the shark-like businessman who helps Mike sell BlackBerry to the world; and Johnson himself plays Doug Fregin, the vest-wearing tech bro who started the company with Lazaridis but would rather have a good time than be in business.

The film is a delight, and a world away from tragic moral tales like The Social Network or Jobs. Johnson's approach is less ostentatious, bringing these tech giants down to a human level and telling a story full of wit and pathos. 

Glasgow Film Festival runs 1-12 March, get full details and tickets at glasgowfilm.org

TIMESTAMPS:

Glasgow, Limmy and deep-fried pizza (1:22)

Why make a film about the deeply uncool BlackBerry (3:38)

Casting Always Sunny's Glenn Howerton (7:47)

The film's 'fly-on-the-wall' style (10:30)

Borrowing from Robert Altman (14:12)

Making an honest story about capitalism (14:55)

Johnson's similarity to all three main characters (18:33)

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This week, we're joined by Xuanlin Tham to talk through the Take One Action film festival programme. Mushroom-lovers and fans of Resisting The System, this one's for you.

Meanwhile, Anahit has news of films she loved (and one she hated) at Venice, while back in the studio Peter loudly proclaims Strawberry Mansion to be great despite Lewis and Jamie's objections, but we all agree that Owen Kline's debut film Funny Pages is very good. 

TIMESTAMPS

What We've Been Watching – Tár, Heathers, The Moon Has Risen, Greener Grass (1:45) Take One Action preview (12:05) Funny Pages review (27:20) Venice Film Festival recap (37:40) Strawberry Mansion review (44:35)

Take One Action programme and tickets: https://takeoneaction.org.uk

Recorded at Upload Studios in Leith - https://uploadstudios.co.uk

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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)

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With regular host Peter away, things get a bit weird as Anahit, Lewis and Jamie go down a very strange arthouse rabbit hole this week as we discuss two beguiling and mysterious films from some truly original filmmakers.

First up it's The Girl and the Spider from the Swiss duo the Zürcher Brothers. We also dig into the murky new film from French filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović.

We also discuss Hadžihalilović’s work more generally and we consider what she has in common with other women filmmakers working in the horror genre.

Elsewhere, Anahit gets conflicted about Top Gun Maverick, Jamie laments the bagginess of TV shows and Lewis revisits a recent problematic fave.

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching (01:35)

The Girl and the Spider (13:20)

earwig (26:10)

Great horrors from women filmmakers (40:35)

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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

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In this special bonus mini episode of THE CINESKINNY, we're going back to August, and our review of the incredible new film Aftersun which hits cinemas this weekend. It's amazing, go and see it.

Jamie, Anahit, Lewis and 'Friend Of The Pod' Xuanlin Tham discuss the film, by Edinburgh-born director Charlotte Wells and starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio. This initially went out as part of our EIFF live episode, which you can find in the feed.

Jamie's interview with Charlotte Wells: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/interviews/charlotte-wells-on-aftersun

On this week's episode, Jamie, Anahit, Lewis and Peter go on a festive rampage through some of their favourite Christmas movies.

Cue a surprising amount of violence, the spectre of communism, the invention of the hula hoop, song and dance numbers, and just one reference to The Muppets Christmas Carol. Well, there was always gonna be one... TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching - 1:30 Klaus - 11:40 Gremlins - 17:35 Remember The Night - 24:00 Jingle All The Way - 27:50 You've Got Mail - 34:55 The Hudsucker Proxy - 39:10 Better Watch Out - 44:35 Anna and the Apocalypse - 47:55

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On this week’s pod, Peter Jamie and Anahit go long on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and discuss everyone’s favourite elfin film boi, Timothée Chalamet, ahead of his new film Bones and All.

Elsewhere, Jamie tries and fails to get his colleagues to watch Georgian fable What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?, Peter gets annoyed with James Corden, and Anahit tells us all about *checks notes* Looney Tunes: Back In Action…

TIMESTAMPS

What We’ve Been Watching (1:35) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (7:40) What Do We See… (27:10) Bones and All (34:30) Timothee Chalamet retrospective (40:30)

The Visual Effects Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eALwDyS7rB0

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We've broken away from our usual recording schedule to visit the Glasgow Film Festival, which is currently in full swing. 

One of the most exciting films to emerge from the programme this year has been How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Daniel Goldhaber’s ticking time bomb thriller following an idealistic group of young people drawn from all across America who gather in Texas for a bout of sabotage on a key oil pipeline. 

While they were in Glasgow for the UK premiere of the film, we spoke to Goldhaber and editor Daniel Garber. 

Glasgow Film Festival runs 1-12 March, get full details and tickets at glasgowfilm.org

TIMESTAMPS:

Adapting Andreas Malm’s political manifesto of the same name into a nail-biting heist thriller (1:35)

Creating the film's urgent quality through editing and pacing (3:55)

Hitting upon the film's structure combining cliffhangers and flashbacks (5:38)

Visual influences (8:55)

16mm cinematography (10:15)

The stunning cast of up-and-coming actors (11:35)

Giving young audiences hope (15:26)

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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

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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)

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For our debut episode, Peter Simpson, Jamie Dunn and Anahit Behrooz talk through some of the best films of 2021.

The social terror of Shiva Baby, Titane's body horror, The Green Knight with its perfect himbo and its scary, sexy Barry Keoghan... plus bits on Drive My Car, The French Dispatch, Summer of Soul and Minari.

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THE SKINNY FILMS OF 2021 LIST: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion/the-skinnys-films-of-2021

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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)

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In a genius bit of Bank Holiday scheduling, we're delving into the recent past for Jamie's chat with the excellent director Carol Morley.

We discuss Carol's career, her new film Typist Artist Pirate King and the role of Jane Campion in getting it off the ground, and Carol's work in spotlighting the great Muriel Box. Apologies for the audio on the intro, we were not in a bin – we were in a meeting room, and we want that on the record.

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TIMESTAMPS:

Jamie on Typist Artist Pirate King (1:00) A mini 'What We're Looking Forward To...' (3:20) Carol Morley on Dreams of a Life (4:30) Morley’s new film, Typist Artist Pirate King (7:20) New ways of portraying mental health on screen (12:30) Monica Dolan, ‘one of the greatest actors of our generation’ (22:00) Muriel Box, and celebrating female artists (24:40) Jane Campion, legend (27:40)

Carol and Muriel radio documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jcln

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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)

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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

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Recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live

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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

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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)

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On the hottest day of all time, The Cineskinny review two temperature-appropriate films – volcano doc Fire of Love, and spectacular Iranian road trip comedy Hit The Road.

We also talk about durational cinema, genre-bending video art, and going to the club in the middle of Lord of The Rings. Hot Pod Summer is here and everyone's a bit heated, come and join the gang.

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TIMESTAMPS:

Karlovy Vary, The Babadook, The Bear (2:40)

Hit the Road (10:40)

Fire of Love (25:10)

The Afterlight, and Film Experiences (38:30)

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The Cineskinny returns, more chaotic than ever!

We discuss the buzziest film in all the land, Joachim Trier's The Worst Person In The World! (4:30)

We look ahead to Glasgow Short Film Festival; its amazing opening film The Timekeepers of Eternity (20:15), some picks from the programme (32:25), and some chat from its Directors, Matt Lloyd and Sanne Jehoul (41:20)!

We also talk about Agnes Varda and Wallace & Gromit (51:05)!

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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)

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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

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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)

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Let’s all Glas-go to the lobby, as Peter, Jamie and Anahit take a look at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival programme.

Get ready for East African action auteurs, fashion-forward psychological horror, and The Most Iranian Man Of All Time… plus a bit of intel on where Jack Lowden does his shopping.

GFF, and Film Festivals in General (2:30)

Superior review (8:45)

Zalava review (18:45)

Once Upon A Time In Uganda review (31:40)

Some more GFF picks (44:40)

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The films we recommended, in full:

Superior (8-9 Mar)

Zalava (6-7 Mar and online)

Once Upon A Time In Uganda (5-6 Mar)

Benediction (7-8 Mar), Bergman Island (3-4 Mar), Farewell Amor (12 Mar), Futura (4-5 Mar), Happening (8-9 Mar), Hommage (12-13 Mar), Nobody Has To Know (10-11 Mar), The Girl with the Spider (5-6 Mar), The Hermit of Treig (5-6 Mar and online), Wild Men (11-12 Mar)

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The Cineskinny returns with a distinctly European flavour; reviews of award-laden Spanish comedy The Good Boss and Italian road trip documentary Futura, plus a Wim Wenders discussion as his films return to cinemas.

Oh, and Peter really wanted to talk about the Minions: Rise of Gru soundtrack, and we didn't have the heart to stop him... It's The Cineskinny!

TIMESTAMPS:

What We’ve Been Watching: Mad God, Scrubs, Minions 2 OST (2:15)

The Good Boss (11:00)

Futura (25:10)

Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, and Paris, Texas (37:10)

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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

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This time out, Anahit, Jamie and Peter are talking about love, romance and relationships in The Movies.

We review two films that deal with romance in very different ways: Joanna Hogg's follow-up to The Souvenir (11:21), and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's new anthology film Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (23:53).

There's a deep dive into the history and politics of the romantic comedy (30:40), through the lens of the conveniently-titled 2019 documentary Romantic Comedy.

Plus bits on Keanu Reeves, Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (which we did *not* love), and some cool screenings to check out. Also, we're all together in one room! Next to a castle!

Lots of love, The Cineskinny xx

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After our *proper* 2022 round-up, the gang takes a slightly more chaotic look back on the past year.

We've got Barry Keoghan chat! We talk about The Northman! We put together a whole '2022 in film fashion' retrospective! The 'fits! The knits! etc etc

Big festive fun from the whole gang – we were all a bit ill and woozy when we recorded this one, and you can tell...

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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)

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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

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Recorded at EHFM's Ground Floor Studio in Leith – ehfm.live

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The Cineskinny returns with news of Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film Broker, a chat about the weird and wolf-filled world of mockumentaries, and a whole bunch of fun movie chat...

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching - 2:25 Broker review - 7:45 Mockumentaries (Culloden, Popstar, This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show) - 18:35 What We're Looking Forward To - 36:30

Thanks to Hippodrome Silent Film Festival for sponsoring The Cineskinny! hippfest.co.uk for all the details

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Back once again, the team review Alice Diop's award-winning Saint Omer and Georgia Oakley's Section 28 drama Blue Jean, before ripping into Margaret Thatcher for a good 20 minutes via a discussion of noted 'normal country' Great Britain.

We're talking hauntology, male dance troupes, light-to-mid gangsterism, Bill Nighy shouting into the distance, and films that can make even the saddest amongst you smile. A fun time all round... TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching [The Last of Us, All Quiet on the Western Front] (1:20) Saint Omer (11:05) Blue Jean (27:05) Thatcher and British Cinema [The Long Good Friday, Pride, Adam Curtis, The Full Monty] (39:25) What We're Looking Forward To (59:00)

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The Cineskinny takes the quick route to The Danger Zone, as Peter and Jamie are joined by our production assistant Lewis to talk the return of Top Gun, Tom Cruise's love of big big stunts, and the enduring genius of Psycho.

Iana Murray dials in from Cannes to fill us in on what's good on the Croisette, Jamie gets angry about ghosts, Lewis makes us all feel very old, and we shout out a regional Scottish train line. 

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TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching (02:20)

Top Gun: Maverick (11:40)

Tom Cruise: The Last Action Hero? (20:20)

Iana Murray's Cannes 2022 roundup (35:30)

Psycho at 62 (41:15)

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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)

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We kick off 2023 with a pair of excellent new releases – the *incredible* Nan Goldin documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Tár, starring the excellent Cate Blanchett.

The gang also take a dive into Artificial Intelligence in cinema with some help from a Mr. ChatGPT, Jamie and Anahit talk about the new official 'Best Film of All Time', and Peter has some fun with puns.

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching (Jeanne Dielman, Summer of Soul) - 0:30 All the Beauty... review - 11:40 Tár review - 25:30 AI in cinema chat (Wall-E, The Matrix, Stepford Wives, I'm Your Man) - 37:15

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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)

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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)

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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)

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On this week’s podcast, the gang move into some new digs, and immediately start talking about sex in cinema.

Baz Luhrmann’s biopic of a rock icon, Emma Thompson defying warped social expectations, Ninja Thyberg taking an in-depth look at the adult film industry, and more! Headphones up, The Cineskinny are back in town.

TIMESTAMPS:

What We’ve Been Watching (2:30)

Elvis (12:45)

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (20:30)

Pleasure (31:40)

Discussion on Sex in Cinema (50:50)

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Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny essay: https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/

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This week, the gang discuss the latest work by everyone's favourite staid purveyor of kicking people's heads in, John Wick.

We also discuss the surreal and spooky Filipino action-comedy-drama Leonor Will Never Die, and talk about a few more films making exciting innovations in the field of Fightin' At The Movies.

In case you hadn't guessed, Anahit was away this week, and it turns out Peter had a bit of a cold. Expect mid-energy and vibrancy! Also a surprising amount about horses! And more!

TIMESTAMPS Our Indie Cinema Guide with Film Hub Scotland, and free MUBI screenings (00:30) Jamie on Glasgow Short Film Festival (2:20) Leonor Will Never Die review (6:00) John Wick 4 review (14:40) Kung Fu Hustle, Upgrade, and further watching (30:35)

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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__

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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)

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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)

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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 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)

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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)

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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 is a tale of two halves; Lewis, Jamie and Peter review 'surfing kid' documentary Ride The Wave, and we have some chat from Glasgow Youth Film Festival... then it's off the deep end for a scratchy, gloopy dive into the world of David Cronenberg.

Is his new film, Crimes of the Future, good? No. But might it make for a good excuse to talk about Scanners and The Fly? Who's to say...

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching (EIFF, League of Our Own): 2:05 Ride The Wave review: 9:35 Glasgow Youth Film Festival preview: 21:30 David Cronenberg retrospective (The Brood, Scanners, The Fly): 24:40 Crimes of the Future review: 47:35

Recorded at Upload Studios in Leith - https://uploadstudios.co.uk

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Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

It's that time of year again. Anahit, Jamie, Lewis and Peter are rounding out 2022 by running through The Skinny's top ten films of the year, which include a few titles we didn't get to review on the pod, like Licorice Pizza, Happening and Nope. 

TIMESTAMPS:

Licorice Pizza - 2:46 The Worst Person in The World - 11:20 Happening - 14:04 Hit The Road - 20:52 The Banshees of Inisherin - 24:36 Nope - 29:40 Memoria - 40:16 Everything Everywhere All at Once - 43:25 Decision to Leave - 47:23 Aftersun - 49.59

Read more about The Skinny's Films of 2022 at theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion/films-of-the-year-2022

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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)

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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

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)

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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)

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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

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)

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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)

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