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We said we'd be back with more CANCELED TOO SOON sooner than you think, and we meant it! What started out as a gag on this week's episode of our STAR TREK podcast ALL OUR YESTERDAYS is now a long-awaited episode of CANCELED TOO SOON . It's QUARK , the short-lived sci-fi comedy sitcom from GET SMART co-creator Buck Henry, starring Richard Benjamin as the captain of an interstellar garba...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, Godzilla meets his evil twin, a giant metal robot with rainbow laser eyes and rocket fingers, controlled by aliens from a black hole planet, in GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA !  Plus: Archaeology, super tobacco pipes, the introduction of King Caesar, and the final appeara...

We started SCARYTOBER with a failed horror pilot from one of the worst filmmakers in history, and we end with a failed horror pilot from one of the best! Martin Scorsese teamed up with author Dean Koonz and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remake director Marcus Nispel to bring you FRANKENSTEIN , a modern update of the classic novel, starring Parker Posey as a New Orleans cop who teams up with the man-made...

Witney Seibold flies solo and proves for the umpteenth time that he's absolutely fantastic! While William Bibbiani endures a chaotic and exhausting move, Witney reviews the new and new-ish releases FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S , KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON , DIVINITY , MORE THAN EVER , THE PERSIAN VERSION and SHAKY SHIVERS! It's an all-new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED , and don't worry, because...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, the underwater kingdom of Seatopia hijacks a robot named Jet Jaguar, to use it as a tour guide for their rampaging monster. It's GODZILLA VS. MEGALON , and also Gigan again, in one of the silliest Godzilla movies of them all! Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.co...

We're back! Where were we? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explain why their lives have been thrown into chaos lately - and why a cricket is co-hosting this episode - in an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL , the podcast where they answer YOUR emails! And they answer a whole heck of a lot of them! Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork  for exclusive content and exci...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, Godzilla and his best buddy Anguirus rush to humanity's rescue as cockroach aliens deceive a manga artist and turn a children's amusement park into a death machine, before unleashing King Ghidorah and his best buddy, Gigan, who is a cyborg razor goose! Plus: How...

SCARYTOBER continues with a failed TV pilot from the director of KINKY BOOTS , the co-writer of one of the best STAR TREK episodes ever, and what the heck, let's throw Faye Dunaway in there too! It's ANONYMOUS REX , and it's about a velociraptor private detective investigating a murder mystery in a world where dinosaurs didn't go extinct, but did go into hiding, and are impersonati...

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST SCI-FI HORROR MOVIES EVER MADE!  Monsters! Mad scientists! Math! Everything that could possibly scare you about science run amok awaits in the latest episode of THE IRON LIST! Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork  for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bo...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, Godzilla fights a monster made out of human waste and toxic waste, in the very strange and very gross GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH , a.k.a. GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER! We know we say this every week but this very well might be the weirdest movie we've reviewed on THANK G...

We found a failed pilot based on the blockbuster horror movie HOUSE OF WAX that was too intense for audiences in the 1960s, and got sent to theaters with a brand new gimmick, a brand new title ( CHAMBER OF HORRORS ) and - for some reason - a completely unnecessary cameo from Tony Curtis! Was this surprisingly violent detective series... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are ab...

It's a veritable extravaganza of new movie reviews! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED , film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review David Gordon Green's THE EXORCIST: THE BELIEVER , as well as the final film from the director of The Exorcist, THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL!  Plus, reviews of the sci-fi film THE CREATOR , the horror sequel SAW X , the sci-fi drama FOE , the horr...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, an amoeba from space transforms a cuttlefish, a crab and a turtle into giant monsters, in a film somewhat fittingly titled SPACE AMOEBA! It's got some of the best visual effects we've seen so far on the THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY podcast... but is it also...

We're bringing CANCELED TOO SOON back for the Halloween season, with a month-long event we call SCARYTOBER! First up, a failed pilot for a horror anthology series written and directed by Ed Wood, about an actor looking at things in a theater after dark! It's an episode called FINAL CURTAIN , in what would have been a show entitled PORTRAITS OF TERROR! Ed Wood has been called the worst dire...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, it's a film most GODZILLA fans hate, but a film that GODZILLA creator Ishiro Honda loved. And we're going to have one heck of a time deciding if it's the worst film in the series, the most interesting film in the series, or both! It's the anti-bullying c...

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST SINGLE LOCATION MOVIES EVER! These are the movies that take place in a place that's so confining, it created a challenge for the filmmakers. And these are the films where the filmmakers overcame those challenges! We've got thrillers, comedies, dramas, sci-fi and horror movie recommendation...

It's must be Oscar season, because the biopics are descending!  This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED , William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the murder mystery A HAUNTING IN VENICE , the macho actionfest EXPEND4BLES , the sci-fi horror film NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU , the biopics CASSANDRO and A MILLION MILES AWAY and DUMB MONEY and EL CONDE , and the quasi-biopic queer noir ROTTING IN THE SUN! A...

It's the first Godzilla movie we're reviewing that wasn't made in Japan! Has the world's mightiest kaiju finally met his match in Marv Newland's cult classic short film, BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA? It's an all-new episode of THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY , and it's over 20 times longer than the movie we're reviewing! If you want to follow along with us, the list of film...

It's an EXTRA-LONG episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL! Nearly two full hours of William Bibbiani and WItney Seibold answering YOUR correspondence about the future of the film industry (if it has one), strange TV edits of movies, the problem with searching for movies on streaming, the best and worst BBC Shakespeare adaptations, how to pick the first horror movie to show your kids, and more! Subscrib...

It's the film that was supposed to end the GODZILLA series! Godzilla and Mothra and Rodan and Manda and Baragon and Minilla and Gorosaurus and Anguirus and Kumonga and Varan team up to destroy the world, and then save it from aliens! It's DESTROY ALL MONSTERS , in the latest episode of THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY! If you want to follow along with us, the list of films we're plannin...

The CONJURING UNIVERSE is back and this time there's a scary nun in it! Again! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review THE NUN II on this week's CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED podcast, along with the Airbnb thriller 8 FOUND DEAD , the Sundance Award-winning comedy-drama SCRAPPER , and the folk music documentary STATE OF THE UNITY! The Nun II - 3:32 8 Found Dead - 34:52 Scrapper - 42:...

Godzilla finds a baby Godzilla on an island populated by giant mantises, and a giant spider, and a bunch of scientists who want to freeze the Earth!  It's SON OF GODZILLA , and the title character may or may not be our new favorite character THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY , the podcast where William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review every GODZILLA movie ever... on Fridays!  If you want to fo...

Denzel Washington's back and he's equalizing the hell out of Sicily in THE EQUALIZER 3! Film critics William BIbbiani and WItney Seibold review the latest thriller from director Antoine Fuqua, as well as the new documentary WE KILL FOR LOVE , about the straight-to-video erotic thrillers of the 1990s, and the new indie FREMONT! The Equalizer 3 - 2:02 We Kill for Love - 29:00 Fremont - 1:00:...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! A supervillain named Doctor Who (?!) kidnaps King Kong and makes him do his dirty work, and fight the giant robot Mechani-Kong!  It's another rough day to be a kaiju, but a great day to be in the audience here at THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY!   If you want to follow along...

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST BOX OFFICE BOMBS EVER! These are the best movies that didn't just fail to make money, but famously lost a LOT of money. But there's no direct correlation between a film's quality and its box office success, and sometimes even the biggest failures in motion picture history aren't ju...