Canceled Too Soon

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 Haunting in Venice - 3:14Expend4bles - 29:28No One Will Save You - 56:45Cassandro - 1:09:00A Million Miles Away - 1:20:10Dumb Money - 1:28:15El Conde - 1:43:35Rotting in the Sun - 1:51:57Review Round-Up - 2:00:35Subscribe 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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Adve

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 films we're planning to cover is here at Bibbs's Letterboxd page!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 planning to cover is here at Bibbs's Letterboxd page!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 - 3:328 Found Dead - 34:52Scrapper - 42:50State of the Unity - 54:30Review Round-Up - 1:11:14Subscribe 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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 follow along with us, the list of films we're planning to cover is here at Bibbs's Letterboxd page!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 - 2:02We Kill for Love - 29:00Fremont - 1:00:45Review Round-Up - 1:11:54Subscribe 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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 with us, the list of films we're planning to cover is here at Bibbs's Letterboxd page!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 just good... they're great!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 - 52:44Subscribe 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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 really bad day in... EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP!If you want to follow along with us, the list of films we're planning to cover is here at Bibbs's Letterboxd page!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/br

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.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Join the new SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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, commentary tracks and much, much more!Join the new SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 you want to follow along with us, the list of films we're planning to cover is here at Bibbs's Letterboxd page!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com

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/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Join the new SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 - 2:24Heart of Stone - 27:25Aporia - 49:14Red, White and Royal Blue - 1:02:45The Communion Girl - 1:16:35Review Round-Up - 1:24:52Subscribe 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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 Godzilla dances!If you want to follow along with us, the list of films we're planning to cover is here at Bibbs's Letterboxd page!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: h

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 podcastSubscribe 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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 actually need "character development" to be good, and more!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 WORLD, aka FRANKENSTEIN VS. BARAGON!If you want to follow along with us, the list of films we're planning to cover is here at Bibbs's Letterboxd page!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 SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB at Patreon.com/SaltCatSoap today! You can also buy soaps at our Ko-fi store!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPriv