The Cineskinny

• Mickey 17, Flow, Dystopian Cinema and Love Is Blind

  This week, we review Bong Joon-Ho's latest – Mickey 17 stars multiple Robert Pattinsons and Mark Ruffalo doing what we're assured is not an impression of any named individual. We also dive into the lovely 3D animated waters of Flow, Oscar-winning animation and, fun fact, the highest grossing Latvian film of all time.  Elsewhere, we interrogate horrid visions of surveillance, intrigue, subterfuge and suspicious gender politics, but eventually we do *stop* talking about Love Is Blind and talk about dystopias in cinema instead. The Cineskinny; we had you in the first half, not gonna lie.  TIMESTAMPS: Love Is Blind, Picture This, Good Time (2:10) Mickey 17 review (11:30) Flow review (29:45) Dystopian Cinema chat (39:40) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @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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• On Falling, John Maclean and films on tour

  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 (Glasgow Short Film Festival, HippFest) we wanted to give shout-outs to, and we take a look at some filmmakers who are attempting different distribution models that involve taking their films on intimate tours of the country. We also briefly chew over the Oscar results. TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching: Walking & Talking, Disney Channel original movies, Common Side Effects and more (1:49) On Falling review (14:18) GSFF, HippFest, The People's Joker and Hundreds of Beavers (32:30) Interview: John Maclean on Tornado (50:10) Oscar chat (1:07:50) Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @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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• Glasgow Film Festival 2025: Peaches Goes Bananas, Peacock + Boys Go To Jupiter

  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 podcast. It's The Cineskinny, drink it in. TIMESTAMPS: GFF: A beginner's guide (2:20) Peaches Goes Bananas (6:40) Peacock (15:05) Boys Go To Jupiter (24:10) More GFF picks 33:40 GFF, 26 Feb - 9 Mar, glasgowfilm.org Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @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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• Tributes to David Lynch plus The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Memoir of a Snail

  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 downbeat and whimsical stop-motion film from Australia. TIMESTAMPS: HippFest 2025 (1:25) The Seed of the Sacred Fig review (5:45) Memoir of a Snail review (22:20) Our celebration of the one and only David Lynch (35:50) Recorded at Ground Floor, Leith – eh.fm/live Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @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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• BONUS: Matthias & Maxime and 21st Century Queer Filmmaking (Live at GFT)

  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, give it a blast. Queer Cinema Sundays: https://www.glasgowfilm.org/queer-cinema-sundays/ Get us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram and Letterboxd  @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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