La Chimera, Shallow Grave and the meteoric rise of Josh O’Connor

2024-05-02

On the latest episode of The CineSkinny we go raking around in Etruscan tombs with a very sexy Josh O'Connor and his band of rapscallion grave robbers in La Chimera. We then head to 90s Edinburgh to revisit Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave. Does it still feel fresh 30 years later? Was renting in Edinburgh a nightmare back in 1994 too? Can Ewan McGregor actually act? Tune in to find out. We end the show by celebrating Film Twitter man of the moment Josh O'Connor. Not only is he brilliant as a melancholy Indiana Jones in La Chimera, he's also...

On the latest episode of The CineSkinny we go raking around in Etruscan tombs with a very sexy Josh O'Connor and his band of rapscallion grave robbers in La Chimera. We then head to 90s Edinburgh to revisit Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave. Does it still feel fresh 30 years later? Was renting in Edinburgh a nightmare back in 1994 too? Can Ewan McGregor actually act? Tune in to find out.

We end the show by celebrating Film Twitter man of the moment Josh O'Connor. Not only is he brilliant as a melancholy Indiana Jones in La Chimera, he's also riding high at the box office playing a cocky tennis pro in Challengers. We look back at his short but impressive career, from God's Own Country to The Crown.

TIMESTAMPS:
What We've Been Watching: Buffy, Mary & George, Back to Black and John Tucker Must Die (1:12)
La Chimera review (7:12)
Shallow Grave review (20:35)
In praise of Josh O'Connor (36:48)

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Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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