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This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new sports biopic/video game movie GRAN TURISMO , the raucous teen comedy BOTTOMS , and the Liam Neeson thriller RETRIBUTION! And since you're a patron, you get to listen to the episode AD-FREE! Hurray! Gran Turismo - 2:42 Bottoms - 23:26 Retribution - 43:00 Review Round-Up - 52:44 Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, psychics, dance competitions and bank robberies all conspire to send a a ragtag band of misfits to an island run by nuclear powered terrorists who kidnapped people from Mothra's island to make yellow fluid that repels sea monsters! Godzilla is about to have a real...

What are Bibbs and Witney's favorite Greek mythology epics, and how does BARBENHEIMER relate to the fall of the Hollywood costume epics in the mid-20th century? Which STAR TREK shows can you safely skip, and do they all have crappy first seasons? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer these questions and more on an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL podcast. Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.c...

We've got TWO superhero movies about unwitting heroes in bug armor fighting a villainous organization making super soldiers: BLUE BEETLE and SHIN MASKED RIDER! Plus, reviews of the Shudder horror movie BAD THINGS and the raunchy talking dog movie STRAYS! Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork  for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commen...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, Frankenstein is back, and instead of getting framed for murder by a giant flappy-eared underground kaiju, he's getting framed for murder by another Frankenstein! It's THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS , and it directly inspired both ATTACK ON TITAN and PACIFIC RIM! If y...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR emails and talk about the perils of catching up to long-running TV shows, movie franchises and comics, as well as great films about grief, what those science tubes in all the mad scientist labs actually do, and - because our listener demanded it - what they have to criticize about each other . Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/criticallyaccla...

There's a Dracula on a boat and film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold have opinions . This week they've got reviews of THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER , the Netflix spy thriller HEART OF STONE , the time travel drama APORIA , the sexy Amazon rom-com RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE , and the Shudder Original movie THE COMMUNION GIRL! The Last Voyage of the Demeter - 2:24 Heart of Stone...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, aliens who dress like Devo ask Earth to borrow Godzilla and Rodan in exchange for the cure for cancer, only to turn right around and use Godzilla, Rodan and King Ghidorah to conquer the planet Earth! It's INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER , and it's the film where G...

Disney made another HAUNTED MANSION movie! A24 made a horror movie called TALK TO ME! Netflix made a sci-fi comedy called THEY CLONED TYRONE ! And there's another TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES movie, and this one's got MUTANT MAYHEM! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review them on all this week's CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED podcast Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaim...

Last week's installment of WE'VE GOT MAIL got pre-empted for the special bonus episode of CANCELED TOO SOON , so we hope you enjoy it today! (We'll release the new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED on Wednesday.) This week on WE'VE GOT MAIL we answer YOUR emails about bad movies that have great songs, the history of "a GI-ant WOLFman?!" , old books about monster movies, whether movies a...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, Nazis smuggle the still-beating heart of the Frankenstein monster to Japan, where a nuclear bomb irradiates it, causing it to evolve into a giant teenager, who gets framed for murder by an underground lizard monster! You guessed it, it's FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold bring CANCELED TOO SOON back for one (for now) very special episode, because one of the most infamous TV shows in U.S. history has finally surfaced... TURN-ON , the sketch comedy series so controversial it was canceled during the first commercial break! It's a series from the creators of ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN , co-written by Albert Brooks, about a...

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST MOVIE CAMEOS EVER! These are the moments when an actor you had no idea was in the movie shows up for only one or two scenes and completely blows you away, by being totally hilarious, or unexpectedly creepy, or just by being themselves.  And for (maybe? we think?) the first time either, there are N...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, Mark Jackson takes center stage as a badass American pulling diamond heists, stopping diamond heists, and kicking butt with karate! And somehow the film manages to make a little time for DOGORA , a giant betentacled space creature that's destroying the world! If you...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold have new reviews of BARBIE , OPPENHEIMER and COBWEB! It's BARBWEBENHEIMER! Ca... Cabarbenheimer? Barbie 1:50 Oppenheimer - 48:35 Cobweb - 1:18:50 Review Round-Up - 1:37:00 Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork  for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! Join the new S...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, Godzilla meets his arch-nemesis, GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER , and teams up with Rodan and Mothra to save the Earth! And he's a bratty little kid about it, and doesn't want to! Plus, Venusian spiritual possessions, political assassinations, and more! If...

Our mission? To review MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -DEAD RECKONING PART 1 (and all of the other MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies!), along with the new hockey documentary BLACK ICE , the Sundance comedy THEATER CAMP , the Shudder thriller QUICKSAND , and FINAL CUT , the remake of ONE CUT OF THE DEAD from the director of THE ARTIST! Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 2:02 Black Ice - 51:12 Theater Camp...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, Godzilla wages war against the most heroic kaiju of them all, Mothra! An evil amusement park entrepreneur has stolen one of Mothra's eggs and is using it as a tourist trap, and by sheer coincidence they also built the park on Godzilla's not-quite-dead corpse! Wh...

We're answering YOUR emails and talking about the mess Warner Bros. made of Turner Classic Movies, how movies have been devalued to the point where the industry is imploding, time travel enigmas, queer teen films, fun trans characters and more! Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork  for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary track...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are back with reviews of the supernatural sequel INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR , the documentaries THE YOUTUBE EFFECT and WHAM! , the comedies THE OUT-LAWS and JOY RIDE , the horror drama RUN RABBIT RUN , and the Italian drama AMANDA! Insidious: The Red Door - 3:56 The YouTube Effect - 39:51 Wham! - 1:09:36 The Out-Laws - 1:22:50 Joy Ride - 1:33:38 Run Rabbit Run - 1:...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, it's an undersea adventure that combines secret aquatic invaders, a high-tech super-submarine, a giant sea monster, and a complex discussion about Japanese militaristic patriotism in the wake of World War II! It's ATRAGON! ( EDITOR'S NOTE: This episode had...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold return with a giant-sized INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY review, and reviews of the new Swissploitation comedy MAD HEIDI , the Netflix animated film NIMONA , and the indie drama PAST LIVES! Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 1:50 Mad Heidi - 1:08:46 Nimona - 1:21:34 Past Lives - 1:38:36 Review Round-Up - 1:50:43  Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, it's one of the biggest motion picture match-ups of all time! KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962), a film that began as a FRANKENSTEIN movie and wound up redefining the GODZILLA series for decades to come. Does this epic throwdown live up to the hype? Subscribe on Patre...

Because YOU demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS EVER! These aren't the best musical scores or the best musicals, these are the soundtracks consisting of new or pre-existing songs that amplify the film in question, and/or stand on their own as a fantastic album! Find out which movies made Bibbs and Witney's respective lists, an...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, one of Godzilla's greatest enemies and bestest buddies makes her cinematic debut, in a lavish and colorful and musical (!) spectacular! It's MOTHRA , and it's an important milestone in the kaiju canon! Subscribe on Patreon  at  www.patreon.com/criticallyac...