Time Sensitive
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
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
- Is This Thing On?
The episode "Is This Thing On?" discusses the film of the same name, directed by Bradley Cooper, and explores themes of love and remarriage, drawing parallels to "Marriage Story" and "The Kings of Comedy".
- Our Most Anticipated Movies of 2026
Sam and Ian preview upcoming 2026 films, highlighting new projects from directors such as Steven Spielberg, Denis Villeneuve, and Christopher Nolan.
- It Was Just an Accident
The podcast Time Sensitive discusses a film about a geopolitical conflict, characterizing it as anti-authoritarian and uncertain, questioning whether events were intentional or accidental.
- Our Top Movies of 2025
On the Time Sensitive podcast, hosts Sam and Ian discuss their top movie selections from 2025.
- Ella McCay
This episode reviews the James L. Brooks film Ella McCay. The Guardian described the film as a
- Happy Filmversary! 2026
You 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 it a “Filmversary,” and this episode is an ode to those films…
- Rental Family
This 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 @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitive…
- Sovereign
This 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 violence in furtherance of their extremist ideology. SlashFilm…
- Oscars 2026 Post-Show
The 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 set you up last week with the final notes before the 98th Osc…
- Oscars 2026 Pre-Show
It’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 who will win, who s hould win, and who should have been nominat…
- Relay
This 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 Pharma, it’s David Mackenzie’s Relay . Check us out on... Twitte…
- Oh, Hi!
If 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 or lunacy? It’s Sophie Brooks’s Oh, Hi! Check us out on... T…
- A House of Dynamite
“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 also feels like Obama fan fiction, and it ignores the basic ten…
- Twinless
It’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 inappropriate ‘bromance.’” We’re talking codependence, grief…
- Season 8 Teaser
We'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 Big Heads Media
- 5th Annual Sensi Awards
Get 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 @ timesensitivepodcast Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitive…
- 5th Annual Sensi Award Nominees
Get 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 @ timesensitivepodcast Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodc…
- Megalopolis
This 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 in the making, equal parts science fiction, political allego…
- Pavements
This 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 biopic-doc hybrid,” it’s designed to glorify Stockton—the Cleveland…
- Cuckoo
It’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 this week, we bring the 2025 edition of the Festival to a clos…
- It's What's Inside
This 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 someone, would you do it? Maybe Greg Jardin’s It’s What’s Inside ca…
- The 28 Days Later Franchise
It’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 won’t be profiling a single film in this episode. We won’t be pr…
- Nosferatu
“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 calling your name at midnight? Beware you never say it—for then the…
- Oddity
It’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 week, we kick off our seventh annual Freaky Film Festival with…
- Venice and TIFF 2025 Recap
Oh, 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 International Film Festivals, and how they are shaping the 2…
- Poorly Explained Movies
Every time Sam and Ian review an under-the-radar movie on this show, we read the distributor’s own stylized plot description—likely drafted by a team of marketing professionals—before providing our own. And oftentimes, the PR language from…
- Comic Timing: Four Pills (Cameron Esposito)
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: Cameron Esposito’s Four Pills . Check us out…
- September 5
Today, we’re rewinding the tape to Munich, 1972, on the 53rd anniversary of “the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today.” It’s a story of sport turned spectacle, where broadcasters becam…
- The Surfer
This week, Nicolas Cage is The Surfer . But don’t let that fool you. He’s still unhinged, bloody, tense, gun-wielding, manic, fabulously bonkers, and gayly attacking locals with tire irons, rats, and assorted signage. He’s a weirdo losing…
- KPop Demon Hunters
This week, we are jumping on the bandwagon because it’s become impossible to ignore. I can’t believe I am saying this, we are profiling Netflix’s new smash hit, KPop Demon Hunters . This PG-rated animated film has tapped into one of the gl…
- The Vault: Leaving Las Vegas
This week, we open the Vault again and step inside the cage with an Oscar-winning performance from one of Time Sensitive’s most prolific featured performers. The road to nowhere is about to take a detour. It’s 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas . Ch…
- A24 in 2025
In this episode, we want to profile the 18 films currently slated for distribution by A24 in the current calendar year of 2025. We will explore which films have the opportunity for commercial success, briefly discuss those we may have alre…
- I'm Still Here
his week, we go international as well as historical with a review of the Oscar-winning Brazilian drama I’m Still Here , directed by Walter Salles. Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivep…
- The Room Next Door
This week, we really turn up the octane with a solemn contemplation of terminal disease, broken families, the climate crisis, and death with dignity alongside two of Hollywood’s palest women. It’s Pedro AlmoDOvar’s The Room Next Door . Che…
- The Vault: Se7en
This week, we once again open the Vault, repent our sinful ways and find out “what’s in the box,” as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Fincher’s Se7en . Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @…
- Forced to Watch: Ian and MacGruber
You've gotten to know Sam and Ian over the last six seasons of Time Sensitive, and by now, it should be clear what we do and don't like. Well, now we are forcing each other to embrace those things that we don’t like, as we continue a serie…
- Marmalade
Everybody loves a heist movie, and this week, we root for lovers on the run in a wild ride modern Bonnie & Clyde story, evoking the 90s heist aesthetic, with a BigPharma twist. It’s Marmalade , written and directed by Keir O’Donnell. Check…
- Jaws 50th Anniversary
Time Sensitive has a special episode for you this week to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the theatrical release of Jaws . That’s right, this episode drops on June 20, 2025, fifty years TO THE DATE of the movie that revolutionized ci…
- Grand Theft Hamlet
To paraphrase Shakespeare, “It is a tale told by three idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” “So shall you hear of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning a…
- A Different Man
This week, we’re peeling off prosthetics, unpacking identity crises, and trying really hard not to cast our friends in plays about their own trauma. Is it satire? Is it horror? Is it a giant metaphor about who gets to tell whose story? Yes…
- Cannes 2025 Recap
Bon jour, and welcome to the show. Ian is currently wearing a voluminous outfit that both hinders the proper flow of traffic of guests and complicates seating in the theater, and Sam is currently nude, as we protest the new Cannes dress co…
- Holland
This week, we’re going Dutch… Well, sort of. The original spec script describes it as a “Hitchock-ian style thriller with black humor.” However, much like the titular town, in the words of its lead character Nancy Vangergroot, this movie i…
- What Are You Into? Part IX
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),…
- Monkey Man
It’s a subject we’ve covered many times on the pod with reviews of You Were Never Really Here , The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot , Bacurau , Promising Young Woman , Pig , Vengeance , and of course, Do Revenge . How could we f…
- Hundreds of Beavers
This might be the most bizarre film ever reviewed on Time Sensitive, and yet it is one of the most critically-acclaimed. Return to the nineteenth century for a slapstick, furry-infused, Elmer Fudd/Bugs Bunny-style, brutally genocidal survi…
- Happy Filmversary! 2025
You are joining us for our annual celebration of cinema history, specifically those movies celebrating a milestone release anniversary in 2025. It’s a birthday of sorts. We call it a “Filmversary,” and this episode is an ode to those films…
- Kneecap
There are over seven million people on the entire island of Ireland. 80,000 of those are Irish speakers. Only 6,000 of those Irish speakers live in Northern Ireland. Three of those are rappers. This is their story. It’s a rage against the…
- Our Most Anticipated Movies of 2025
In this episode, Sam and Ian will look ahead to the exciting films projects slated for release in 2025. We’ve got new films from Bong Joon Ho, Steven Soderbergh, Danny Boyle, Paul Thomas Anderson, Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie, Noah Baumbac…
- Love Lies Bleeding
As we’ve stated before on Time Sensitive, 2024 was, in many ways, the year of the lesbian, so we figured we would celebrate that with one of the year’s most critically acclaimed queer films: Rose Glass’s fun, sweaty, pulpy, and violent neo…
- Woman of the Hour
Before there was Love Is Blind , there was The Dating Game , and a 1978 episode of the show became retroactively notorious when it helped many women realize their deepest fears. What happens when a cross-country serial killer appears as an…