Time Sensitive

This week, it’s a supernatural thriller told almost entirely from the perspective of a dog who senses something sinister lurking in his owner's home. It’s Good Boy directed by Ben Leonberg. Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media 

We are thrilled to kick off our eighth annual Freaky Film Festival! Throughout the month of October, Time Sensitive will be devoted to blood, guts, and the BEST classic and under-the-radar horror films. Last night at 2:17am, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class woke up, got out of bed, walked downstairs, opened the front door, walked across the front yard and into the dark… and they never came back...

This week, we open up the Vault again and travel back 20 years. What happens to a society when it can no longer imagine a future? What happens to a world without hope? In the qualified hands of a future 4x Oscar winner, you get an overlooked masterpiece. It’s Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab s...

From the canals of Venice to the shores of Lake Ontario, Sam and I will tell you exactly what you need to know from the 2026 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, and how they are shaping the 2027 Oscar race. Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media 

This week, a gambling-addiction story, a fugitive thriller, a ghost story, and a dark comedy bleed into one another. Will the gambler finally beat the game? Or does winning mean walking away? It’s Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media 

This week, we are excited to host our annual Comic Timing episode, where we give the full Time Sensitive treatment to a standout comedy special from the last year. Our subject for this episode: Pete Holmes’ Silly Silly Fun Boy . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media 

This week, it’s time to set the record straight. In an industry propelled by Tik Tok soundbites, streams, and trends, writing a hit song isn’t easy. This one’s for the unsung heroes: the songwriters. It’s the newest movie musical from Irish filmmaker John Carney— Power Ballad . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at Tee...

This week, we’re biting into Meredith Alloway’s debut feature, Forbidden Fruits . Dripping with biblical temptation, sisterhood, glitter, witchcraft, Lizzie McGuire references, and just enough venom, see what happens when the coven turns on itself. Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media 

This week, love and espionage go hand in hand. They say it takes a spy to hunt a spy, but what happens when loyalty to country challenges loyalty to your spouse? It’s Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media 

This week we are giving you a real pick-me-up. What happens when a single, empty nester reluctantly befriends her daughter’s ex-boyfriend? It’s a multi-generational, platonic love story. This movie is genuine joy, a convergence of life transitions, and it will leave you with misty eyes and a huge smile. It’s Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart’s Suze . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: T...

In this episode, we're taking a look at A24's current 2026 theatrical slate. We'll discuss the films that have already been released, preview what's still to come, and speculate about which titles have the best chance of becoming critical favorites, commercial successes, or major awards contenders. Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast G...

This week, Sam and Ian return to prison, well, the prison drama. We’ve discussed prison films before with a Vault review of 1974’s The Longest Yard and its remake, but this week is a bit harder. The Shawshank Redemption , Escape from Alcatraz , Sing Sing , Chicago , and Dead Man Walking have all shaped our outsider perspective on the inside. But the harsh reality is more than Rita Hayworth posters...

This week, we relive my tortuous middle school existence with a psychological thriller about bullying. ELLE magazine calls it a disturbing probe into the existential dreads of male adolescence. I call it an aquatic adaptation of Lord of the Flies . Inspired by Full Metal Jacket and The Shining , it’s The Plague , written and directed by Charlie Polinger. Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Fac...

This week we're pulling back the curtain on one of Hollywood's most misunderstood subjects: film financing. Where does all that money come from? Who gets paid first? Why are movie stars earning $20 million upfront while some actors work for union minimums? And why does a movie's box office total tell only a fraction of the story? Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Ins...

Relationships are messy, and this week, we profile a chaotic, modern farce that puts the ‘screw’ into screwball—a movie that finds absurdist comedy in the hypocrisies, jealousies, and self-deceptions of ethical non monogamy complete with plenty of hanging hog. It’s a satire of modern love with old school comedy techniques. It’s Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSM...

Sam and I actually recorded this episode seventeen years ago, and we will add newly recorded segments throughout. This week is the best of all worlds: music, the internet, television, and film. It’s a mockumentary that blends This Is Spinal Tap and Back to the Future . It’s Matt Johnson’s Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instag...

This week we look back at the incredible career of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers. A guy who directed one of the greatest coming-of-age films ever made, one of the greatest romantic comedies ever made, one of the greatest mockumentaries ever made, one of the greatest courtroom dramas ever made, and one of the greatest psychological thrillers ever made. And he never won an Academy Aw...

Live, die, repeat. According to Decider ’s John Serba, “It’s 2054, and human cloning is a thing now. Not a legal thing, mind you, and that’s why icky politicians are doing the offshore-account thing and hauling their human-generating 3D printers into outer space to colonize other planets since—big shocker here—Earth is increasingly uninhabitable.” They say cats have nine lives, but Robert Pattinso...

Bon jour, and welcome to the show. It’s another annual tradition on Time Sensitive where we take you to the French coast of the Mediterranean Sea and recap the world’s most prominent and lavish film festival. In fact, this is our eighth Cannes recap on Time Sensitive. The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which ran from May 12 - 23, 2026, just closed with a controversial Palme d'Or winner,...

This week, only you can prevent forest fires by giving your wife a little fucking attention. It’s an exploration of mad love and mental illness. Two guys talk about postpartum depression as we review Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media 

You are joining us for another perennial favorite here on Time Sensitive. At the end of nearly every episode, we ask our guest hosts a simple question: What are you into? Even though this sounds like a sexual invitation (it mostly isn’t), we ask our guests to focus on a movie, book, album, game, podcast, or pop culture subject they are currently enjoying. But no one ever asks Sam and Ian what they...

This week, Marriage Story meets The Kings of Comedy . It’s the second film in Time Sensitive history that ceremoniously ends with Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure.” Why can’t we just give love one more chance? It’s a comedy of remarriage. It’s Is This Thing On? co-written and directed by Bradley Cooper, the director of 2018’s A Star Is Born . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook...

 In this episode, Sam and Ian will look ahead to the exciting films projects slated for release in 2026. We’ve got new films from Steven Spielberg ( Disclosure Day ), Denis Villeneuve ( Dune: Part 3 ), Christopher Nolan ( The Odyssey ), Jesse Eisenberg, David Fincher, Martin McDonagh, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Greta Gerwig, David O. Russell, and more on the horizon. Check us out on... Twitter @...

This week we explore an ongoing geopolitical conflict with a movie dubbed, “a blast of pure anti-authoritarian rage.” It’s a biting exercise in uncertainty. Perhaps it was intentional? Perhaps It Was Just an Accident . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media 

In this episode, Sam and Ian outline their  favorite movies from 2025, in a daddy of all recap episodes. Some of these titles have already been profiled on Time Sensitive, others may be the focus of future episodes, and others may never be spoken of in this space again. Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic B...