The Movies You Should Be Watching This Summer (From Prestige Junkie)
The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders
4.9 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re bringing you an episode from our friends at Prestige Junkie.
Sam joins host Katey Rich to look ahead at this summer’s stacked box office lineup. From Christopher Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' and Spielberg’s 'Disclosure Day' to the movies you shouldn’t sleep on including Aleshea Harris’ directorial debut 'Is God Is' and Hannah Einbinder’s queer slasher film 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.'
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, Sam here. Thanks so much for checking out my show with KCRW. |
| 0:09.8 | Today, movies. Summer movies. |
| 0:16.4 | It's that time. It's mid-May. We are in the season. |
| 0:19.9 | We're going to share this week a very special episode I taped with my friend Katie Rich for her podcast, Prestige Junkie. |
| 0:28.0 | Prestige Junkie is a podcast that talks about all things film and TV and awards and the business of all of it. Katie Rich is working hard to give you all the details about all the movies you |
| 0:38.6 | should care about. For this chat, Katie and I dug into this summer's stacked movie lineup. |
| 0:45.8 | She sent me this list a few weeks ago, and she said, Sam, here are all the movies. Let's talk about |
| 0:50.5 | them. And let me tell you, I like the list and going through it was quite fun. |
| 0:54.8 | This summer's going to be big for movies. You got Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated The Odyssey. |
| 1:01.3 | Stephen Spielberg's out with the new one, Disclosure Day. There's a new Star Wars movie. There's a new toy story. |
| 1:07.7 | And there are a few smaller films that I am truly stoked about. For instance, |
| 1:12.0 | Is God Is, from director Alicia Harris. That movie's out right now. I've already seen it twice. |
| 1:17.6 | It is For Colored Girls meets Quentin Tarantino and Spaghetti Western. It's remarkable. |
| 1:24.1 | There's also Hannah Einbinder's upcoming queer slasher film, Teenage Sex and Death at Kemp Myasma. |
| 1:30.7 | It is wild. |
| 1:31.7 | It is horny. |
| 1:32.5 | It is meta. |
| 1:33.7 | I could go on. |
| 1:35.1 | And in fact, I will. |
| 1:37.3 | Right now, Katie Rich and I talking about all the summer movies that should be on your radar. |
| 1:43.5 | Let's get into it. Enjoy. |
| 1:48.4 | Okay, Sam, I do kind of feel like when the conversations you and I had, we talked during |
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