Time Sensitive

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 prisoners themselves? It’s Wasteman directed by Cal McMow.

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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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