Jamie Skinner

Whistle – Review

Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 40 minutes, Director – Corin Hardy After using an Aztec death whistle a group of high schoolers find their deaths hunting them down early. With its tongue firmly out of its cheek Whistle is a call back to 90s group horrors where we’d see the central group ofContinue reading “Whistle – Review”

Crime 101 – Review

Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 20 minutes, Director – Bart Layton The pattern of a thief’s (Chris Hemsworth) heists leads multiple parties towards him as new relationships start to tangle with each other and his criminal activities. The inspiration of 90s crime flicks are all over Bart Layton’s follow-up to his slickly messyContinue reading “Crime 101 – Review”

“Wuthering Heights” – Review

Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 16 minutes, Director – Emerald Fennell Class, ancestry and the future all create tensions in the passionate relationship between Cathy (Margot Robbie) and poor childhood friend Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi), especially in the wake of marriage and personal tragedy. The quote marks around the title of Emerald Fennell’s adaptationContinue reading ““Wuthering Heights” – Review”

Anxi-Tea: The Calm Of Inside Out 2 | Movie Marker

Below is a brief excerpt from a piece that I wrote for Movie Marker in 2024, shortly after the release of Inside Out 2, about the calm that film’s depiction of Anxiety, particularly in terms of its visualisations, made me feel. When it comes to things that I’ve written it’s one of the pieces thatContinue reading “Anxi-Tea: The Calm Of Inside Out 2 | Movie Marker”

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday – Introduction

Possibly the most expensive joke in Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, a film first released in 1953, was inspired by 1975’s Jaws. I look into that, alongside Jacques Tati’s nostalgic condensing of human life into a French seaside town, in this introduction that I gave for the film in October 2025 at The Little Theatre in Bath.Continue reading “Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday – Introduction”

The Straight Story – Introduction

David Lynch famously saw The Straight Story as his most experimental film. Yet, as it shows the director’s love of people and their mindsets it’s thoroughly Lynchian. Unlike other introductions that I’ve recorded, that can also be found on this website, the audio in the video below was recorded before the actual in-person screening, whichContinue reading “The Straight Story – Introduction”

Lost Highway – Introduction

“I want to take this time to talk about three people. Admittedly, one of them isn’t David Lynch. Although, of course, he comes up in his relationship and views of these people. Those three people: David Bowie, Richard Pryor and OJ Simpson.” Through these three people and the ways in which they each represented differentContinue reading “Lost Highway – Introduction”

Vertigo – Introduction

How personal was Vertigo to Hitchcock? In terms of the director’s infamous control over his films, particularly on set, there may have have been a good deal of the director that went into the film. I look at how that comes through in the cycles of Vertigo in this introduction I gave to the filmContinue reading “Vertigo – Introduction”

Wild At Heart – Introduction

David Lynch’s love for The Wizard Of Oz and its “truthful” nature came most to the fore in Wild At Heart, a film that came as decades-long passion project Ronnie Rocket once again stalled. Falling in love with Barry Gifford’s characters of Sailor and Lula he had to make the film, with one or twoContinue reading “Wild At Heart – Introduction”

The Secret Agent – Review

Release Date – 20th February 2026, Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 41 minutes, Director – Kleber Mendonça Filho Brazil, 1977. To escape his recent past, Marcelo (Wagner Moura) finds himself returning to his distant past in the city of Recife, where multiple lives and identities catch up to him with deadly intent. There’sContinue reading “The Secret Agent – Review”