The Time Shifters Podcast

The Time Shifters Podcast is built around the pleasure of talking movies at length, especially when the movie is strange, scrappy, bloody, charming, or all of the above. Christopher and Tom review film and television with a steady preference for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, action, older titles, and independent screeners. The show is not overly polished. That is part of its shape. Episodes often begin with a casual check-in, a bit of life chatter, or a stray viewing recommendation before the hosts settle into the feature at hand. Once they do, the conversation tends to balance plot explanation with gut-level judgment. A film like Infiltrate gets measured by whether the fights are sharp, whether the story holds, and whether familiar Bond-like villain touches still work. A movie like Long Time Listener gets called out for building a thriller around podcasting while seeming not to understand how podcasting works. The Guardroom becomes a discussion about promise, atmosphere, and pacing. Bone Keeper gives them room to talk caves, creature lore, missing relatives, and the danger of one filmmaker carrying too many production jobs. The back catalog also reaches into older genre oddities, including Warrior of the Lost World and other titles with MST3K-adjacent appeal. Those episodes bring in public-domain film history, bad-movie endurance, and affection for flawed artifacts that still have entertainment value. The show is at its best when the hosts disagree slightly, test each other's reactions, and keep the conversation loose enough for rabbit holes. It can be funny without becoming a comedy show. It can be critical without sounding detached. Interview specials add another mode, letting Peter McLeod talk through First Moon, werewolf mythology, passion, othering, and what makes a monster. The result is a roomy genre-review feed for listeners who want opinions, context, and conversational texture rather than compressed verdicts. It feels like sitting near two longtime movie watchers after a screening, hearing what stuck, what annoyed them, and what they would still recommend anyway.