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A film podcast from the team behind The Skinny magazine, looking at the wide world of The Movies.

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01:12:47

On Falling, John Maclean and films on tour

The Cineskinny ·

2025/03/06

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

43:01

Glasgow Film Festival 2025: Peaches Goes Bananas,...

The Cineskinny ·

2025/02/20

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

59:52

Tributes to David Lynch plus The Seed of the Sacred...

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2025/02/06

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

27:03

BONUS: Matthias & Maxime and 21st Century Queer...

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2025/01/30

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,

57:56

Nosferatu, Babygirl, Wallace and Gromit, and What We...

The Cineskinny ·

2025/01/16

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

01:12:15

The Cineskinny Awards 2024: Josh O'Connor, Koreeda,...

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2024/12/17

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

53:44

The Films of 2024: Sexy Tennis, Sexy Grave Robbing,...

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2024/12/05

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

01:00:32

Luca Guadagnino's Queer, Grand Theft Hamlet and Witches

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2024/11/21

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

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Anora, Bird and Our Favourite Wild Tonal Shifts in...

The Cineskinny ·

2024/11/07

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

01:16:49

Megalopolis, Dahomey, A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper...

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2024/10/17

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

01:06:05

The Outrun, Since Yesterday and The Yearning,...

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2024/10/03

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

58:45

The Fall, In Camera, and our Favourite Filmmaking...

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2024/09/19

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

01:05:16

Starve Acre, Red Rooms and Venice Film Festival

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2024/09/05

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

57:50

Kneecap, Alien: Romulus and the best rebellions in film

The Cineskinny ·

2024/08/22

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

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Edinburgh Film Festival 2024: Between The Temples,...

The Cineskinny ·

2024/08/08

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

49:19

Crossing, I Saw The TV Glow, and Edinburgh Film...

The Cineskinny ·

2024/07/18

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

01:06:07

Orlando, My Political Biography; Unicorns and...

The Cineskinny ·

2024/07/04

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

01:03:41

The Exorcism, The G, Bye Bye Tiberias, and Films That...

The Cineskinny ·

2024/06/20

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

01:01:30

Furiosa, Riddle of Fire and Great Queer Movies for Pride

The Cineskinny ·

2024/06/06

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

27:56

GFF 2024: George MacKay on The Beast

The Cineskinny ·

2024/05/30

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

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