We've Got Mail #7 | The Movies of the Digital Age!

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters!

And this week it's a doozy. You asked us to talk about big criticism concepts like style vs. substance, the perilous future of physical media, how to be a good film snob, and how cinematic storytelling has changed as we enter a hitherto unimaginable digital age!

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Canceled Too Soon #172 | Whiskey Cavalier (2019)

Two sexy spies struggle with international acts of terrorism - and their feelings! - in the sensitive espionage thriller series WHISKEY CAVALIER! It had one of the biggest marketing pushes of 2019, and even debuted right after the Academy Awards, but this slick and action-packed comedy series couldn't make it past one season.

Was "Whiskey Cavalier"... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold go undercover to explore the TV spy genre, the importance of keeping sexual chemistry at a low simmer and a heck of a lot more in the latest episode of our SUDDENLY LAST SEASON month-long event!

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Critically Acclaimed #103 | Frozen 2, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ford v Ferrari, The Knight Before Christmas and MORE!

It's a double-sized episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!  

This week, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review two weeks worth of movies, including FROZEN 2, KLAUS, A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, DARK WATERS, WAVES, FORD V FERRARI, SCANDALOUS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER, CITIZEN K and THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.  

Holy heck, that's a lot of movies!  

Frozen 2 Review - 6:01
Klaus - 19:31 
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - 34:32 
Dark Waters - 48:00 
Waves - 1:03:24 
Ford v Ferrari - 1:14:54 
Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer - 1:21:03 
Citizen K - 1:27:35 
The Knight Before Christmas - 1:36:26

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We've Got Mail #6 | Are 1980s Movies Overrated?

Get ready for a huge episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters!

This week, Bibbs and Witney take requests to review all the FRIDAY THE 13TH movies, debate Alan Moore's controversial statements about the superhero genre, and consider the very real possibility that all the 1980s movies you love... are overrated.

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The Two-Shot | Kazaam and The Man Who Fell to Earth!

The 90s were a hell of a decade for Shaquille O'Neal, who ruled the basketball courts, had his own rap career, invented a new kind of martial arts and played a magical genie in the embarrassing kids flick KAZAAM! 

On the latest episode of THE TWO-SHOT, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold release "Kazaam" from its magical boombox and reveal why, in a bizarre twist of fate, it's the perfect double feature for Nicolas Roeg's experimental sci-fi classic THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, starring the late David Bowie!

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Canceled Too Soon #171 | Swamp Thing (2019)

What do you get when you combine DC superheroes, disgusting body horror, and swamps? You get SWAMP THING, an expensive and ambitious TV series starring Andy Bean, Crystal Reed, Kevin Durand, Will Patton, Ian Ziering, Jennifer Beals and Virginia Madsen!

SWAMP THING is about a swampy thing in a swamp, and it only lasted one season on the new DC Universe streaming service! Was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? 

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore the whole hulking series, the state of streaming services and more in a massive, mossy episode, as our SUDDENLY LAST SEASON month continues!

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The Iron List #1 | The Best Film Noirs Ever!

Happy #Noirvember! We're celebrating by introducing a whole new podcast to THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK, in which every month film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for the best movies ever, in genres selected by our Patreon subscribers!

And fittingly enough, in #Noirvember, our Patrons chose "Film Noirs" to be the first subject of... THE IRON LIST! Find out which films Bibbs and Witney selected and sign up for our Patreon to pick next month's giant-sized podcast topic!

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The Two-Shot | Samurai Cop and Hard-Boiled!

It's been called one of the worst movies ever made, but not by us! This week on THE TWO-SHOT, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold unleash the wild and weird 1991 thriller SAMURAI COP, complete with a lion made of yarn and a car chase that defies the laws of time and space! 

And they're following that up with an early classic from action movie luminary John Woo, HARD-BOILED, which is like if The Departed had John Wick's action sequences and suddenly turned into Die Hard halfway through... and it's even cooler than that sounds! 

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We've Got Mail #5 | What is 'The Movie of the Year?'

You wrote us emails, and we're answering them on the air in WE'VE GOT MAIL!

This week, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED co-hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold talk about what should qualify as the "Movie of the Year," what "auteur theory" really means, how the MPAA works and more!

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Critically Acclaimed #102 | Midway, Doctor Sleep, Marriage Story, Honey Boy, The Mistletoe Secret

Surprise! Despite a ton of early buzz and a giant marketing push, DOCTOR SLEEP wasn't the #1 motion picture of the weekend. This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold debate whether DOCTOR SLEEP is a misunderstood classic or just a weird, contrived movie.

Plus, reviews of that unexpected hit MIDWAY, the art house releases MARRIAGE STORY and HONEY BOY, and the new Hallmark Christmas movie THE MISTLETOE SECRET.

Midway Review - 3:36
Doctor Sleep Review - 16:41
Marriage Story Review - 47:47
Honey Boy Review - 57:41
The Mistletoe Secret Review - 1:08:00

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The Two-Shot | All Six(-ish) Critters Movies!

The CRITTERS movies are kinda like the "Gremlins," movies except they’ve got badass shape-changing bounty hunters! So, it could be argued, they’re even better.

In the latest episode of THE TWO-SHOT, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore the five weird feature films in this series - featuring early performances by Leonardo DiCaprio and Angela Bassett! - and also the web series, which doubles as a feature length film in its own right!

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Canceled Too Soon #170 | Tuca and Bertie (2019)

It's that time of year again! CANCELED TOO SOON is back with SUDDENLY LAST SEASON, a whole month where we review nothing but TV shows that failed within the last year, and we're starting with one of the most acclaimed Netflix shows ever made... TUCA AND BERTIE!

From the producer of "Bojack Horseman" came an animated sitcom about two mismatched birds growing up, and apart, in a surreal world filled with unimaginable sight gags and heartbreaking emotional sincerity. Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore the incredible world of TUCA AND BERTIE and decide, for the sake of posterity, whether this animated series was... CANCELED TOO SOON!

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We've Got Mail #4 | Steven Spielberg's War Movies, Ridley Scott vs. Tony Scott, and International Cinema!

You wrote us emails, and we're answering them on the air in WE'VE GOT MAIL!

This week, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED co-hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold talk about Steven Spielberg's war movies, the competing cinematic oeuvres of Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, how the Oscars handle international cinema and much, much more!

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Canceled Too Soon #169 | Night Stalker (2005)

"Kolchak: The Night Stalker" is one of the most important and influential "Canceled Too Soon" shows in TV history. But what about the reboot, NIGHT STALKER, from "X-Files" producer Frank Spotnitz, starring Stuart Townsend and Gabrielle Union? Was it a worthy follow-up to a cult TV classic, or a generic early-2000s supernatural detective series with a catastrophically miscast star?

You'll have to listen to CANCELED TOO SOON to find out! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold dig up NIGHT STALKER to see how it stacks up to the original, how it stacks up to "The X-Files," and why all the show's problems probably could have been solved with a $20 trip to an outlet store.

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Critically Acclaimed Episode 101 | Terminator: Dark Fate, The Irishman, American Dharma, Arctic Dogs, Earthquake Bird, Christmas Scavenger Hunt

It's a HUGE week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! We've got an overview of the TERMINATOR franchise, leading up to a review of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE, and an in-depth review of Martin Scorsese's ambitious gangster epic THE IRISHMAN! 

Plus, we've got reviews of the Netflix murder mystery EARTHQUAKE BIRD, the family-friendly talking animal animated movie ARCTIC DOGS, and - because YOU demanded it - the return of our HALLMARK CHRISTMAS reviews, starting with the aptly titled CHRISTMAS SCAVENGER HUNT!

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