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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 find out if IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE! Jack Arnold's sci-fi classic tells the story of an alien spacecraft that crashelands outside a small town in the desert, but are they here to take ov...

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 how important it is for Americans to watch international TV, the WEIRD things they believed as kids, strange head canons for CATS, how Hollywood tackled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how natural it is to grow out o...

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 MOVIES THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER B! A few months ago William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold presented THE BEST MOVIES THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER A , and now it's time to continue their cinematic journey through the alphabet, featuring classic f...

It's January, but there are actually some danged good movies this week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! William Bibbiani and Witney are back and reviewing the new releases PSYCHO GOREMAN, OUR FRIEND, IDENTIFYING FEATURES, THE MARKSMAN, PIXAR POPCORN, NOTTURNO, COMING CLEAN, MLK/FBI, IN AND OF ITSELF, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, OUTSIDE THE WIRE and THE DIG! And this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING...

Our annual SUDDENLY LAST SEASON event continues! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are exploring some of the biggest shows that lasted only one season (or less) within the last year on CANCELED TOO SOON! This week, it's HIGH FIDELITY! It's a Hulu series based on the book by Nick Hornby, which was previously adapted into an acclaimed film starring John Cusack, about a record store owner w...

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 how to balance watching new movies and old movies, the older movies they saw for the first time in 2020, why movie trailers should try harder, more of our listeners' picks for the best movies of last year, and why pret...

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 on EPISODE ZERO, author M. Lopes da Silva joins Bibbs and Witney to go FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! Russ Meyer's cult classic stars Tura Satana as the leader of a drag racing, kidnapping, murdering go go...

Our Patrons have the power to sponsor an episode of their choice! We call it YOUR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! This week on YOUR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold have been asked to record a free, downloadable commentary track for the notorious box office and critical dud, CATS! How the heck did one of the most beloved Broadway shows in history turn out like, well, CATS?! Synch up...

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 which movies deserve shot-by-shot analysis, double features they'd like to schedule, why cinematographers deserve more credit, the much-debated ending of HAPPIEST SEASON, who they'd cast in THE MUPPET GREAT GATSBY,...

Every year, dozens of new TV shows fail. And we're here to eulogize them! It's our yearly SUDDENLY LAST SEASON event on CANCELED TOO SOON, where William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the most recent crop of TV shows that lasted only one season or less! First up: HELSTROM, a Hulu series based on the Marvel comic book SON OF SATAN, which is all about the son of Satan... ish. Was Marvel&...

It was one of the worst years ever. But the movies were pretty great! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold highlight their picks for the very best films that 2020 had to offer, including big budget action, daring horror, intimate dramas and hilarious comedies! Subscribe on Patreon  at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting re...

Our Patrons have the power to sponsor an episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED of their choice, and we call it YOUR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! This week it's a special episode hosted by R Clay Johnson! But rather than join us on our show, R Clay Johnson invited Witney Seibold and William Bibbiani onto their own!  R Clay Johnson hosts the RALLY FC podcast on the podcast feed THE FLYING COW! It's a sho...

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 on EPISODE ZERO, Bibbs and Witney drop into THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, the German Expressionist silent horror classic that critiqued the rise of authoritarianism in post-World War I Germany, helped usher in...

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 relitigate the controversial film CLIMAX, remind everyone that THE 100 LIVES OF BLACK JACK SAVAGE still exists, consider a brand new syllabus for the history of horror cinema, reveal which movies their parents surprisingly loved, sta...

With 2020 behind us, it's time to play catch-up on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!  This week, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review 15 of the biggest movies of the year that one or both them missed, starting with the major releases TENET and THE NEW MUTANTS, and moving on to the indies DRIVEWAYS, FIRST COW, MINARI, BACURAU, THE 40-YEAR-OLD VERSION, SWALLOW, NOMADLAND, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS...

It's the most requested CANCELED TOO SOON show in history, and it's finally here! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the short-lived, critically acclaimed and extremely ambitious sci-fi western THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY JR.! It's the show that did steampunk before steampunk was cool, and gave cult icon Bruce Campbell his most superheroic role ever! Campbell stars alongsid...

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 MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 movies! We're not talking about the best episodes of MST3K, we're highlighting the best of the (allegedly) bad films that were scrounged up to be part of the series.  Subscribe on Patreon  at www.patreon.com/c...

Santa gave us a whole lot of new movie releases, so let's review them on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!  This week, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new superhero sequel WONDER WOMAN 1984, the latest Pixar fantasy SOUL, the revenge thriller PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, the George Clooney sci-fi film THE MIDNIGHT SKY, the Tom Hanks western NEWS OF THE WORLD, and the Robert Rodriguez superhero fi...

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 on EPISODE ZERO they travel back in time to the heyday of the "social guidance" or "hygiene" films, which children were forced to watch for decades, and which were essentially government propag...

The year was 2017, and William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold had the very silly idea to record an audio commentary track for a video fireplace , aka a yule log. And somehow it became one of our most popular episodes ever! So here, at last, is the long-awaited sequel: THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED YULE LOG COMMENTARY TRACK 2020, with Bibbs and Witney adding updates to the history of the video yule log, se...

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 are come up with their perfect movie-themed ringtones, highlight movies that are better when you're young than when you're old (and vice-versa), re-litigate the reputation of LAST ACTION HERO, debate new and exciting ways to...

Get your red hot movie reviews, right here at CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review EDUCATION, the final installment of Steve McQueen's SMALL AXE cycle, the new Paul W.S. Anderson video game movie MONSTER HUNTER, the Michael Ealy/Hilary Swank thriller FATALE and Chadwick Boseman's final film, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM! Also this week on...

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 are challenged to come up with a film history syllabus, full of screenings that represent the vast swath of movie history! Plus, they ponder the filmmakers whose work they admire despite their personal politics, filmmakers fans would...

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 on EPISODE ZERO they take a dip into two-strip Technicolor with Michael Curtiz's pulpy horror classic DOCTOR X, about a cannibalistic serial killer who's pursued by a heroic mad scientist with a scheme...

Get your red hot movie reviews, right here at CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Ryan Murphy's star-studded musical THE PROM, John Patrick Shanley's Irish rom-com WILD MOUNTAIN THYME, the animal documentary GUNDA, Julia Hart's crime thriller I'M YOUR WOMAN, the coming of age film FUNNY BOY, and Steve McQueen's latest SMALL A...