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Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident and Cover-Up
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 another unjust jail sentence from the Iranian regime. Another moral crusader who's been a thorn in his corrupt nation's side is journalist Seymour Hersh. His extraordinary career as an investigative reporter is documented by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus in Cover-Up. And finally, we review Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s exquisite and expansive drama examining generational trauma and burning resentment within a Norwegian family. CHAPTERS: What We've Been Watching: The Running Man, Field of Dreams, RoboCop (2:45) It Was Just an Accident review (12:50) Cover-Up review (30:05) Sentimental Value review (47:33) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow us on Instagram @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected] Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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Pillion, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and What Makes a Good Whodunnit?
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 sub-dom-rom-com Pillion, which stars Alexander Skarsgård as a dom biker who takes a shine to Harry Melling’s shy traffic warden. They also dig into the third film in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series, Wake Up Dead Man, which sees Daniel Craig’s detective investigating some strange goings on at an Upstate New York church. And in honour of Wake Up Dead Man, we take a look at what’s required to create a good whodunnit. CHAPTERS: What We've Been Watching: Pennies from Heaven, Speed Racer, Hard Boiled (1:40) Pillion review (12:05) Wake Up Dead Man review (20:30) The art of the whodunnit (31:05) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow us on Instagram @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected] Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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Lynne Ramsay's incredible, intense Die My Love, plus Alpha & Train Dreams
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 reviewin' machine, so strap in for talk about The National, us being infatuated with and scared of Jennifer Lawrence, Peter getting Gene Wilder and Billy Wilder mixed up, and lots of chat about a film we didn't much care for. CHAPTERS: What We've Been Watching (1:30) Train Dreams review (8:25) Alpha review (15:00) Die My Love review (27:55) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow us on Instagram @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected] Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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Frankenstein, The Mastermind, and our favourite heist movies
Guillermo del Toro is back, with his long-gestating Frankenstein! Kelly Reichardt is back, with Josh O'Connor-starring art heist drama The Mastermind! The gang is back, and we're in a new office! What a time to be alive on this, The Cineskinny podcast. Oh, and before we forget, listen to our *other* podcast, Music Now – we spoke to Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman about their new score for the Lon Chaney 1925 Phantom of the Opera (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1JjZNhEPJ5bPezB2MNPTWH?si=1ac9ad32df1a43d8) TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: London geography and capsule hotel reviews (4:55) Frankenstein review (17:10) The Mastermind review (32:15) Heists on film – Inception, Charley Varrick, The Wrong Trousers and more (49:20) Recorded at The Skinny office at Outerspaces, outerspaces.org Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected] Intro and interstitial music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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Plainclothes, Good Boy and horrors to watch this Halloween
This week, we take a peek at Plainclothes, a new thriller/romance about a cop whose job involves the entrapment of gay men, which he feels somewhat conflicted about as he himself is secretly gay. We also take a look at Good Boy, an American indie horror about a dog who's trying to save its owner from a supernatural threat. And with Halloween approaching, we recommend the horror films to catch on the big screen and the small screen at home. TIMESTAMPS: What We’ve Been Watching: The Wiz, Transformers: The Movie (1:42) Plainclothes review (11:37) Good Boy review (26:32) Horror film recommendations: Perfect Blue, Night of the Living Dead, Black Phone 2, V/H/S Halloween and more (37:20) Recorded on location at Jamie's flat in Shawlands, Glasgow. Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd @thecineskinny, email us at [email protected] Intro and interstitial music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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