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Orlando, My Political Biography; Unicorns and gender-fluid cinema
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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 p…
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The Exorcism, The G, Bye Bye Tiberias, and Films That Didn't Need To Go That Hard
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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 arthou…
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Furiosa, Riddle of Fire and Great Queer Movies for Pride
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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 …
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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 t…
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Hoard, Hit Man, The Idea of You, and Streaming Films vs 'Streaming' 'Films'
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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 thin…
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La Chimera, Shallow Grave and the meteoric rise of Josh O'Connor
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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 …
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Challengers, The Sweet East, Civil War, and a perfect day at the cinema
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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 F…
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Disco Boy, Evil Does Not Exist and Lynne Ramsay
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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 s…
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The Cineskinny Guide to Studio Ghibli
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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 beg…
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GFF 2024 Roundup: Love Lies Bleeding, The Beast, After Hours (w/ Carmen Paddock and Rory Doherty)
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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 …
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GFF 2024: Viggo Mortensen and Solly McLeod on The Dead Don't Hurt
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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 N…
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GFF 2024: Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding
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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 gy…
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Glasgow Film Festival 2024: The Vourdalak, Jericho Ridge, Solo and The Invisible Fight
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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. Pete…
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The Zone of Interest, American Fiction, and Unsettling Cinema
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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. TIME…
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Poor Things, All of Us Strangers and Weird Film Adaptations of Weird Books
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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'…
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The Cineskinny Awards 2023: Knitwear, Needle Drops and Not Liking Popular Films
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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... Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineski…
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The Films of 2023: All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Past Lives, Tár, Passages and more
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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.…
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Saltburn, Tish and our favourite horny freaks in cinema
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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 hor…
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How To Have Sex, Anatomy of A Fall, and Holiday Fun at The Cinema
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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 …
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Killers of the Flower Moon, I Know Where I’m Going! and Powell & Pressburger
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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 bril…
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BlackBerry, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, and Business on Screen
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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, yo…
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A Cat Called Dom, Rotting In The Sun, and Live Music on Film
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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 …
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Past Lives, A Life on the Farm + Anahit’s missive from the Venice Film Festival
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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 an…
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Passages, Scrapper and great love triangles on screen
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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…
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EIFF 2023 Preview: Fremont, Afire, Variety and Femme
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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…
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Barbie and Oppenheimer, aka Barbenheimer, aka Oppenboppie, aka Barboppie
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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 ru…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Films of the Year so Far...
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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 t…
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Asteroid City, The Super 8 Years, and Ye Olde Guide to Folk Horror
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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. Classi…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Chevalier + awesome period dramas
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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 o…
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Workin’ The Land: Full Time, Local Hero at 40, Our Daily Bread, Groundhog Day + Runaway Bride
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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 E…
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Return to Seoul, Final Destination, Giant Ants and Pirates (of the Caribbean)
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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 Festi…
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Polite Society, Sick of Myself, Renfield + ’Draculads on Tour’
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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 '…
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Carol Morley talks Muriel Box, Jane Campion and Typist Artist Pirate King
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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 i…
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John Wick 4, Leonor Will Never Die, and the Wild World of Action Cinema
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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 …
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BFFs & female friendship on screen, Hello Dankness and Rye Lane
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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,…
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GFF 2023: Sanctuary and War Pony (w/ Iana Murray and Rory Doherty)
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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 th…
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GFF 2023: Matt Johnson on telling the rise and fall of BlackBerry
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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. ----more---- Jay Baruchel plays the naive inventor of the BlackBerry, Mike Lazaridis; Only Sunny in Philadelph…
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GFF 2023: Daniel Goldhaber and Daniel Garber on How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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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 …
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Glasgow Film Festival 2023: How To Blow Up A Pipeline, Ramona, I Like Movies + Skin Deep
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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 …
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Broker, Best in Show, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, and Silent Cinema! It’s Back!
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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 - …
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Blue Jean, Saint Omer, and the Dread Spectre of Margaret Thatcher
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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, a…
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Tár, and AI in film
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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', an…
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Cool Kids, Hot Guys, Great Knitwear: The Cineskinny End of Year Round-up
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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, an…
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Films of 2022: from Licorice Pizza to Aftersun via Everything Everywhere All at Once
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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 -…
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A Very Merry Cineskinny Christmas: Klaus, Gremlins, You’ve Got Mail and many more
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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... TIMESTAM…
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Aftersun review: Catharsis, childhood, and the chasm of time (w/Xuanlin Tham)
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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…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bones and All, and lovely Timothée Chalamet
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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, a…
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The Jafar Panahi Appreciation Society: No Bears, Bros, Wendell and Wild
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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. …
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EIFF & Filmhouse closures; Triangle of Sadness; Decision to Leave; The Banshees of Inisherin
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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 Par…
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Girls Girls Girls! Horror, Horror, Horror! Bryan! M! Ferguson!
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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 Edinbu…
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