The Cineskinny
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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EIFF 2026: John Hannah on Bad Day at the Office (opens the original)
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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 the film, Hannah plays the mysterious Karl Davis, a man who wakes up in a London hotel with a dead man in his bathtub. Karl has no memory of who he is or how he got there, and he has little time to work it out as men are coming to the hotel to kill him. What ensues is an absolutely
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026: The Education of Jane Cumming, Goodbye Cruel World and The Peril at Pincer Point (opens the original)
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Ahead of Edinburgh International Film Festival kicking off on 13 August, Ellie, Peter, Jamie and Anahit have got together to take a deep dive into three interesting-looking titles in the programme. First they take a trip back to 19th-century Edinburgh for The Education of Jane Cumming, a true-life story that inspired the classic 60s queer drama The Children’s Hour. It’s then off to France for Goodbye Cruel World, a beautifully shot film that begins as a story of teen bullying and depression befo
The Odyssey plus the Best Films of 2026 So Far (opens the original)
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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 team weigh in. And in terms of this week's theme, we were slightly uninspired, but we did notice that the Earth was now over halfway round its yearly rotation of the sun. Therefore, we thought it was a good time to take a little stock of film in 2026 and pick out our
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