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This 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? It’s Presence, the experimental horror thriller with a big twist ending, directed by Steven Soderbergh. To accurately set expectations, the film’s screenwriter, David Koepp, says this: “This is not a scary movie; it’s an eerie movie, filled with dread, and it’s quite unsettling, a really intense experience. The last 15 minutes are hard for me. In some of the screenings, I leave early because I just don’t want t...

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.

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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. It’s Zach Cregger’s grotesque fairy tale Weapons.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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, daring escapes, Shakespearian plays, lavish musical fantasies, and gridiron football. It’s gritty, brutal, and unrelenting. And what better way to capture that than with contraband cellphone video from the prison...

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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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 Award. We are talking about Rob Reiner.

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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 Pattinson has 18. It’s the latest wakadoo spectacle from master director Bong Joon ho. It’s Mickey 17.

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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, divided critical reception, and an industry increasingly grappling with AI's future.

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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.

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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 are into, so we have decided to devote a whole episode to our own pop culture proclivities.

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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.

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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From 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 characters and confounding plot that seem to defy basic story logic at every turn.” Perhaps the film is not as good as it gets? You be the judge!

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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 that have stood the test of time 5, 10, 20, 50, and even 100 years after their original release due to box office success, cultural significance, and/or Oscar glory.

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This week, two gaijin (outsiders) explore the Japanese family-for-hire industry with a review of Rental Family, co-written and directed by Hikari.

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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 even named it “The Most Underrated Movie Of 2025.” It’s Christian Swegal's Sovereign.

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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 Oscar ceremony, and this week, we recap everything you may or may not have seen.

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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 should win, and who should have been nominated, as the best of the best compete for the film industry’s most coveted accolades.

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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.

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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!

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 “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 tenants of nuclear strategy. It’s Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite.

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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, and discomfort that can point the way to deeper truths. It’s a Fight Club meetcute. It’s It Takes Two meets Dear Evan Hansen. Is it cruel, or is it kinky? Either way, it’s James Sweeney’s Twinless.

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We're back baby! Season 8 begins on February 13th

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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.

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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!

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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 allegory, and personal manifesto from one of the greatest living directors. It’s proof that some people still haven’t processed 9/11, and quite possibly the only place you’ll see an Asian Elvis impersonator singing “America the Beautiful.” It’s Megalopolis, written, directed, produced, and funded by the legendary Francis Ford Coppola.

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