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 music documentary THE SPARKS BROTHERS!
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 positive reviews, and the deeper meaning of our physical media collections!
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 big budget sci-fi horror movie starring Anthony Perkins, Maximilian Schell, Rob Forster, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, Slim Pickens and more!
THE BLACK HOLE was a gigantic box office disaster, but does it really suck, or is it an underappreciated cinematic spectacle?
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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!
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, the intricate plot of a STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED series episode, and an invaluable perspective on autism representation in film and cinema!
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 wave nightmare hellscape of sex, drugs and rock and roll!
THE APPLE premiered to boos and vandalized movie theaters, but now it's got a reputation as a charmingly weird relic of a bygone era. But how good is it, REALLY?
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This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are joined by special guest, YouTube film 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 AWAKE, the indie drama HOLLER, the psychological horror film CENSOR, and the Sony Animated movie WISH DRAGON!
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?
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are about to answer all these questions and more!
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 Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith and Morgan Freeman, and completely fails to dramatize, satirize, or suggest it knows anything at all about social tensions in New York City.
Is THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES the worst Tom Hanks movie ever made? Let's find out!
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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 healthy debate about the superhero genre!
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!
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 cinematic legacy and future of GHOSTBUSTERS and more!
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 an out of touch socialite who takes over a scout troop, and A GNOME NAMED GNORM, a buddy cop comedy about a cop who teams up with - yup - a gnome. They're both on TubiTV!
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