About this podcast
A film podcast exploring the best and worst under-the-radar movies released in the past 18 months. We focus on those movies that might have fallen through the cracks. Not the major blockbusters or the billion dollar grossers, but the quality cinema swimming just beneath the surface. And when we aren’t reviewing those under-the-radar movies, we find fun topics in the film industry to discuss. Whether it’s comedy specials, short films, the Oscars, trailer reactions, movie news, or just things we’re into, we do it for a laugh and to help you learn a thing or two.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 334 episodes
- Lurker · 51 min · Episode 322This week, it’s our final review of Season 8, and we are going out with a Gen Z bang. One critic called it, “Nightcrawler for starfuckers in the best possible way.” It’s Alex…
- Eephus · 49 min · Episode 321This week, we take you out to the ballgame. On the heels of the 2026 World Series in which the Milwaukee Brewers claimed their first championship in franchise history—we also…
- Drive-Ins, Communism, and Body Snatchers · 1 h 45 min · Episode 320This week, to close our 8th Annual Freaky Film Festival, we profile another classic Hollywood horror franchise. One that begs you not to go to sleep. In 1954, Jack Finney…
- Presence · 60 min · Episode 319This week, we double dip from two filmmakers already profiled on this season of Time Sensitive. How about a uniquely haunting ghost story told from the ghost’s first-person POV?…
- Good Boy · 41 min · Episode 318This 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…
- Weapons · 1 h 21 min · Episode 317We 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…
- The Vault: Children of Men · 1 h 3 min · Episode 316This 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…
- Venice and TIFF 2026 Recap · 38 min · Episode 315From 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…
- Ballad of a Small Player · 52 min · Episode 314This 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…
- Comic Timing: Silly Silly Fun Boy (Pete Holmes) · 51 min · Episode 313This 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…
- Power Ballad · 1 h 0 min · Episode 312This 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…
- Forbidden Fruits · 53 min · Episode 311This week, we’re biting into Meredith Alloway’s debut feature, Forbidden Fruits. Dripping with biblical temptation, sisterhood, glitter, witchcraft, Lizzie McGuire references…
- Black Bag · 50 min · Episode 310This 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…
- Suze · 54 min · Episode 309This 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…
- A24 in 2026 · 53 min · Episode 308In 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…
- Wasteman · 50 min · Episode 307This 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…
- The Plague · 51 min · Episode 306This 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…
- How It Works: FILM FINANCING · 54 min · Episode 305This 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…
- Splitsville · 50 min · Episode 304Relationships 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…
- Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie · 1 h 7 min · Episode 303Sam 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…
- Rob Reiner Retrospective · 47 min · Episode 302This 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…
- Mickey 17 · 58 min · Episode 301Live, 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…
- Cannes 2026 Recap · 31 min · Episode 300Bon 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…
- Die My Love · 58 min · Episode 299This 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…
- What Are You Into? Part X · 31 min · Episode 298You 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…
- Is This Thing On? · 1 h 6 min · Episode 297This 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…
- Our Most Anticipated Movies of 2026 · 49 min · Episode 296In 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…
- It Was Just an Accident · 54 min · Episode 295This 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…
- Our Top Movies of 2025 · 53 min · Episode 294In 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…
- Ella McCay · 50 min · Episode 293From the Oscar-winning romantic comedy writer, director, and producer James L. Brooks, meet Ella McCay, a film The Guardian called, “...a mess—a clunky collection of incoherent…
- Happy Filmversary! 2026 · 37 min · Episode 292You are joining us for our annual celebration of cinema history, specifically those movies celebrating a milestone release anniversary in 2026. It’s a birthday of sorts. We call…
- Rental Family · 55 min · Episode 291This week, two gaijin (outsiders) explore the Japanese family-for-hire industry with a review of Rental Family, co-written and directed by Hikari. Check us out on... Twitter…
- Sovereign · 59 min · Episode 290This week, we explore “Citizen Kane.” Not the Orson Welles classic, but the story of sovereign citizens Jerry and Joe Kane, a father and son who perpetrated unspeakable acts of…
- Oscars 2026 Post-Show · 49 min · Episode 289The votes are in, history has been cemented, and a whole slew of new Academy Award winners are cuddling up with their Oscars as we speak. As we do here on the Time Sensitive, we…
- Oscars 2026 Pre-Show · 1 h 31 min · Episode 288It’s OSCAR WEEK! It’s time to roll out the red carpet, grab some popcorn, cast your ballots, and join our discussion of this year’s Academy Award nominees. Sam and Ian predict…
- Relay · 46 min · Episode 287This week, we explore a modern paranoid thriller in which Riz Ahmed and Lily James use old-school tech for the hearing impaired to engage in corporate espionage. Look out Big…
- Oh, Hi! · 44 min · Episode 286If you’re looking for a bleakly comedic look at modern dating—a situationship with a side of some light BDSM and the cabin-in-the-woods trope, this episode is for you. It is love…
- A House of Dynamite · 1 h 19 min · Episode 285“At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.” It’s gripping cinema. It…
- Twinless · 1 h 36 min · Episode 284It’s the Golden Globe nominated Time Sensitive. We’ve got a great show for you this week. We are back for Season 8 with what Variety calls, “An ingeniously squirmy and borderline…
- Season 8 Teaser · 4 minWe're back baby! Season 8 begins on February 13th Check us out on... Twitter @TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic…
- 5th Annual Sensi Awards · 30 min · Episode 283Get your finest gown or tuxedo on for the 5th Annual presentation of the prestigious Sensi Awards. We welcome you to our Season 7 Finale. Check us out on... Threads…
- 5th Annual Sensi Award Nominees · 5 minGet your votes in now on our social media for the Season 7 Finale and the Sensi Award Presentation that airs on Friday November 21st! Check us out on... Threads…
- Megalopolis · 55 min · Episode 282This is our final film review of Season 7, and we decided to go out with a bang: a bizarre labor of love that provokes as much confusion as it does admiration. A film fifty years…
- Pavements · 44 min · Episode 281This week, we profile—to borrow the headline from The New York Times—”A sly ode to the last band you’d give the biopic treatment.” Self-proclaimed as “a new experimental…
- Cuckoo · 55 min · Episode 280It’s that time of year again! Throughout the entire month of October, Time Sensitive has been devoted to blood, guts, and the BEST classic and under-the-radar horror films, and…
- It's What's Inside · 56 min · Episode 279This week’s episode is not a profile of a traditional horror film, per se, but one which utilizes a conventional horror trope in a new way. If you could switch bodies with…
- The 28 Days Later Franchise · 1 h 32 min · Episode 278It’s that time of year again! Throughout the entire month of October, Time Sensitive will be devoted to blood, guts, and the BEST classic and under-the-radar horror films. We…
- Nosferatu · 54 min · Episode 277“Enduring night. A spectre of death. He spreads his shadow, and he’s coming.” An intertitle from a 1922 film reads: “Nosferatu. Does this word not sound like the deathbird…
- Oddity · 1 h 5 min · Episode 276It’s that time of year again! Throughout the entire month of October, Time Sensitive will be devoted to blood, guts, and the BEST classic and under-the-radar horror films. This…
- Venice and TIFF 2025 Recap · 38 min · Episode 275Oh, yeah, eh? It’s-a movie time! From the canals of Venice to the shores of Lake Ontario, Sam and Ian will tell you exactly what you need to know from the 2025 Venice and Toronto…
