The Cineskinny

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) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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

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) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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 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) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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 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) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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

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) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected] 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  

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) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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

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) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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

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) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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 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) CINESKINNY FILM CLUB TICKETS: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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

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) CINESKINNY FILM CLUB TICKETS: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/tickets Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected]; 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