Critically Acclaimed Network

Every month on THE IRON LIST, the Patrons of the Critically Acclaimed Network get to pick a topic for a giant-sized episode! This month it's THE BEST CLASSIC LITERATURE MOVIES! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are picking out the very best movies based on greatest books, stories and plays of all time, from iconic romances to terrifying horror, to mind-boggling sci-fi and dashing adventure!...

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the post-physics blockbuster F9, the horror comedy WEREWOLVES WITHIN, the mafia biopic LANSKY, the true-love story I CARRY YOU WITH ME, the haunted house thriller THE EVIL NEXT DOOR, the low-budget supernatural thriller AN UNQUIET GRAVE, the pregnancy paranoia thriller FALSE POSITIVE, and the Edgar Wright mu...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners who want to talk about templates used by integration tests only, everything we got wrong about the cult musical THE APPLE, which 1970s movies new film fans should start with, fan backlash to negative and po...

Welcome to THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners! This week on THE STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney dive into THE BLACK HOLE, Disney's epic response to STAR WARS, with an all-star cast orbiting an unthinkable void in space! It's a bi...

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new Pixar animated family film LUCA, the new Russian underwater monster movie THE SUPERDEEP, the Kevin Hart family comedy FATHERHOOD, and the new drama MISS JUNETEENTH! Luca - 1:13  The Superdeep - 48:44  Fatherhood - 48:44  Miss Juneteenth - 59:57  Subscribe on Patreon  at www.patreon.com/criticallyaccl...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners wondering what our hosts dream vacations would be, whether a film's box office take really matters in the long run (or only under certain conditions), songs Bibbs and Witney want to hear in more movies,...

Welcome to THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners! This week on THE STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney pluck out THE APPLE, a cult classic movie musical from 1980, about a pair of idealistic musicians who get sucked into a hellish disco/new wav...

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are joined by a special guest, YouTube critic LADY KNIGHT THE BRAVE! They're saying goodbye to the late, great Ned Beatty and reviewing the new Jon M. Chu musical IN THE HEIGHTS, the long lost George A. Romero horror movie THE AMUSEMENT PARK, Antoine Fuqua's sci-fi actioner INFINITE, the sci-fi thriller AWA...

The year was 1970, and one of the most expensive television shows in the world was LANCELOT LINK: SECRET CHIMP, a spy spoof for children, starring real chimpanzees as secret agents and their offensively stereotyped roster of villains! Who the heck was this show made for? Why the heck is it so bad? Is it really the worst live-action tv series we've ever reviewed? And was it... CANCELED TOO SOON...

Welcome to THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners! This week on THE STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney explore one of the most notorious duds of the 1990s, based on one of the most popular novels of the 1980s! THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES stars...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners looking for great movies about computer science and concert movies that'll blow your mind! Plus, Bibbs and Witney talk about films based on Mark Millar's comics, comic book movie fatigue, and have a...

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are joined by special guest B Peterson from THE SCREEN'S MARGINS! They're reviewing the new Netflix feature BO BURNHAM: INSIDE, the horror sequel THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT, the Shudder thriller CAVEAT, and the independent films LIMBO and THE PERFECT CANDIDATE! Bo Burnham: Inside - 3:00  The Con...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners wondering why all pulp adventure movies are compared to INDIANA JONES even though that's just a very small part of the genre, the best films to help introduce students to cinematic literacy, the cinemat...

Welcome to THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners! In the first standalone episode of THE STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney explore two cult films from the late 1980s/early 1990s: TROOP BEVERLY HILLS, a family comedy starring Shelley Long as a...

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the blockbuster horror sequel A QUIET PLACE PART II, the Disney prequel CRUELLA, the Chinese documentary SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE, the Moby documentary MOBY DOC, the teen comedy PLAN B, and the Brazilian gore film SKULL: THE MASK! A Quiet Place Part II - 4:56  Cruella - 18:37  Swimming Out Till t...

Every month on THE IRON LIST, the Patrons of the Critically Acclaimed Network get to pick a topic for a giant-sized episode! This month it's THE BEST MOVIE MONSTERS EVER! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are presenting their picks for the greatest creatures in movie history, whether the actual movies are good or not! What makes a great movie monster, and which famous (and not s...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners with personal experience with autism who recommend films and tv shows with respectful representation, discuss the movie reviews that completely nailed it, reconsider the ending of TOGETHER TOGETHER, and rev...

One of Disney's first foray into modern TV animation was a failed pilot called FLUPPY DOGS, based on an adorable toy line for children about puppies that are fluffy!  But when the time came to turn FLUPPY DOGS into a show, something happened... something wonderful, but something that also doomed the show completely.  Was DISNEY'S FLUPPY DOGS really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics Willia...

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new Zack Snyder epic ARMY OF THE DEAD, the slasher SEANCE, World War II documentary FINAL ACCOUNT, and the coming of age film DRUNK BUS! Also on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney explore Gillo Pontecorvo's THE BATTLE FOR ALGIERS, one of the most influential movies ever made, a...

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point! This week, Bibbs and Witney present THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, the only film ever directed by celebrated actor Charles Laughton, starring Robert Mitchum as a serial killer preacher who's hunting two children in the Am...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney talk about representation in film and television, the original HAIRSPRAY vs. the musical HAIRSPRAY, the film series JOSH KIRBY... THE TIME WARRIOR (for some reason), their favorite TV mini-series, movies that work better when viewed...

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new releases SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW, FRIED BARRY, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, MAINSTREAM, THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD and THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS! And on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney explore Takashi Miike's gigantic samurai action epic 13 ASSASSINS! Spiral: From the Book...

From the co-creator of FIREFLY and the co-writer of Pixar's CARS movie came DRIVE, a high-octane action series about an illegal cross-country road race, starring Nathan Fillion, Emma Stone, Dylan Baker, Melanie Lynskey and many, many more! Fox canceled DRIVE after only four episodes, but was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are about to find out! Subscribe on Patreo...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney discuss how to find long lost TV shows, which James Bond movie was almost a killer crab movie, what movies they'd show to aliens to introduce the human race, what their film criticism pet peeves are, the difference between raccoo...

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point! This week, Bibbs and Witney present a triple feature: Hammer Horror's THE KARNSTEIN TRILOGY, a trio of queer-themed vampire movies that pushed the boundaries in the early 1970s! There's the celebrated THE VAMPIR...