A film podcast from the team behind The Skinny magazine, looking at the wide world of The Movies through a cross-cultural lens.We’re talking old films, new films, good films, bad films, the places we watch films, and why we love them.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA film podcast from the team behind The Skinny magazine, looking at the wide world of The Movies through a cross-cultural lens. We’re talking old films, new films, good films, bad films, the places we watch films, and why we love them.
The Cineskinny is hosted by The Skinny. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "EIFF 2026: John Hannah on Bad Day at the Office" (20 August 2026, 22 minutes), "The Odyssey plus the Best Films of 2026 So Far" (23 July 2026, 54 minutes), and "Live recording from the GFT: Gregg Araki's Nowhere" (2 July 2026, 29 minutes).
The Cineskinny publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for The Cineskinny is 42%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Cineskinny requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Cineskinny's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Skinny hosts The Cineskinny, a tv podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Episode #124
During this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival we sat down with veteran Scottish actor John Hannah to discuss his uninhibited performance in the wild first-person POV action-comedy Bad Day at the Office. In...
Episode #122
The Odyssey, the biggest film of the year in every sense, has rolled into town. Christopher Nolan's epic has been receiving rapturous reviews from critics and packing them in at the cinemas on its opening weekend; now...
The Cineskinny were delighted to be invited back again to Queer Cinema Sundays, the GFT's brilliant monthly film night bringing rarely-screened queer films back to the big screen. First time around, we screened Xavier...
Just a couple of episodes ago, we were praising Steven Spielberg as one of our greatest living filmmakers. Then we watched Disclosure Day, and might have to roll back some of those compliments. We gush over Blue Heron...
Charlie xcx is a great pop star, but is she any good as an actor? We find out by watching her as the lead in Erupcja, the new low-key relationship drama from director Pete Ohs. In honour of Erupcja, which makes great...
The full team – Peter, Anahit, Ellie and Jamie – are in the house this week for reviews of crime caper Tuner and chicken-eye-view adventure Hen. And with Steven Spielberg about to release Disclosure Day, his 35th...
On this week’s podcast, we check out Normal, which features Bob Odenkirk as a hangdog lawman who's been assigned as the temporary sheriff of a small town in Minnesota called Normal. But, you guessed it, it turns out...
We try not to confuse Christian Petzold with his fellow prolific European auteurs François Ozon and Olivier Assayas ahead of our discussion of Miroirs No. 3, Petzold's intriguing new drama about a Berlin pianist (Paula...
Episode #115
During this year's Glasgow Film Festival, we caught up with Cornish filmmaking don Mark Jenkin to discuss his excellent new feature Rose of Nevada, an intriguing time-loop puzzle starring George Mackay and Callum Turner...
We’ve an actual, bona fide Hollywood movie star on the podcast this week: Professor X himself, James McAvoy. At this year's Glasgow Film Festival, the PR gods granted us ten meagre minutes with McAvoy to discuss his...
On this week’s show, we pick over the ashes of the 2026 Academy Awards and ask, why are they so boring? Also Oscar-related, we review the new French animation Arco, which was competing in those awards, but left...
Everybody To Kenmure Street tells the true story of a community coming together to resist a Home Office immigration raid in Glasgow's Southside in 2021. For this episode, Jamie caught up with its director, Felipe Bustos...
Episode #111
With the return of Glasgow Film Festival, we review a quartet of films from the programme. Listen in for our thoughts on Gus van Sant’s 70s crime thriller, Mark Jenkin’s existential fishing boat time-hopper, Pauline...
Episode #110
A packed ep of the pod this time – we look at the recent sudden closure of the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow, and what it means for Scottish arts in general, and Scottish cinema in specific. Then, we...
We've a bumper show for you this week. The soul-destroying crush of capitalism is laid bare in Park Chan-wook's sharp and deliriously funny black comedy No Other Choice. Two of our favourite pretty white boys, Paul...
The Cineskinny rides again, kicking off 2026 with Josh Safdie's excellent Marty Supreme, Chloe Zhao's slightly-less-excellent Hamnet, and the oh-my-no-that-ain't-right finale of Stranger Things. All that, plus Peter...
It's the final episode of The Cineskinny for 2025! And it's the top ten films of the year! Peter Jamie and Anahit talk through a list with some surprising thematic links, some personal favourites, and a whole bunch of...
On the penultimate CineSkinny episode of the year, we've got three absolute bangers for you. First up, we take a look at Palme d'Or-winner It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi's powerful moral drama that just got him...
You’ve had your Jamie and Ellie episode. You’ve had your Peter and Anahit episode. Now it’s a Peter and Jamie combo – possibly sponsored by everyone’s fave streaming service, Tubi. They’ll be discussing the...
It's a fresh new config this week, as Peter and Anahit review a trio of new films – the feral, intense Die My Love; the melancholic, Malick-esque Train Dreams; and Alpha, which is also out soon :| We're a lean, mean...
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