Canceled Too Soon

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

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold bring CANCELED TOO SOON back for one (for now) very special episode, because one of the most infamous TV shows in U.S. history has finally surfaced... TURN-ON, the sketch comedy series so controversial it was canceled during the first commercial break!It's a series from the creators of ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN, co-written by Albert Brooks, about a network that uses a computer to automatically generate content. It may be good, it may be bad, but it sure was ahead of its time.But was it CANCELED TOO SOON? Let's find out!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://redc

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST MOVIE CAMEOS EVER!These are the moments when an actor you had no idea was in the movie shows up for only one or two scenes and completely blows you away, by being totally hilarious, or unexpectedly creepy, or just by being themselves. And for (maybe? we think?) the first time either, there are NO OVERLAPS on Bibbs and Witney's lists! They didn't pick any of the same cameos or films!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, Mark Jackson takes center stage as a badass American pulling diamond heists, stopping diamond heists, and kicking butt with karate! And somehow the film manages to make a little time for DOGORA, a giant betentacled space creature that's destroying the world!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/p

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold have new reviews of BARBIE, OPPENHEIMER and COBWEB! It's BARBWEBENHEIMER! Ca... Cabarbenheimer?Barbie 1:50 Oppenheimer - 48:35 Cobweb - 1:18:50 Review Round-Up - 1:37:00Subscribe 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, Godzilla meets his arch-nemesis, GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER, and teams up with Rodan and Mothra to save the Earth! And he's a bratty little kid about it, and doesn't want to! Plus, Venusian spiritual possessions, political assassinations, and more!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

Our mission? To review MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -DEAD RECKONING PART 1 (and all of the other MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies!), along with the new hockey documentary BLACK ICE, the Sundance comedy THEATER CAMP, the Shudder thriller QUICKSAND, and FINAL CUT, the remake of ONE CUT OF THE DEAD from the director of THE ARTIST!Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 2:02Black Ice - 51:12 Theater Camp - 57:16 Quicksand - 1:04:48 Final Cut - 1:14:40 Review Round-Up - 1:22:16Subscribe 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, Godzilla wages war against the most heroic kaiju of them all, Mothra! An evil amusement park entrepreneur has stolen one of Mothra's eggs and is using it as a tourist trap, and by sheer coincidence they also built the park on Godzilla's not-quite-dead corpse! Whoops!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://re

We're answering YOUR emails and talking about the mess Warner Bros. made of Turner Classic Movies, how movies have been devalued to the point where the industry is imploding, time travel enigmas, queer teen films, fun trans characters 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 back with reviews of the supernatural sequel INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR, the documentaries THE YOUTUBE EFFECT and WHAM!, the comedies THE OUT-LAWS and JOY RIDE, the horror drama RUN RABBIT RUN, and the Italian drama AMANDA!Insidious: The Red Door - 3:56The YouTube Effect - 39:51Wham! - 1:09:36The Out-Laws - 1:22:50Joy Ride - 1:33:38Run Rabbit Run - 1:40:49Amanda - 1:50:10Review Round-Up - 1:55:13 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, it's an undersea adventure that combines secret aquatic invaders, a high-tech super-submarine, a giant sea monster, and a complex discussion about Japanese militaristic patriotism in the wake of World War II! It's ATRAGON!(EDITOR'S NOTE: This episode had to be recorded remotely and we had some audio issues. Please forgive us if the quality is a little subpar his week!)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 quest

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold return with a giant-sized INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY review, and reviews of the new Swissploitation comedy MAD HEIDI, the Netflix animated film NIMONA, and the indie drama PAST LIVES!Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 1:50Mad Heidi - 1:08:46Nimona - 1:21:34Past Lives - 1:38:36Review Round-Up - 1:50:43 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, it's one of the biggest motion picture match-ups of all time! KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962), a film that began as a FRANKENSTEIN movie and wound up redefining the GODZILLA series for decades to come. Does this epic throwdown live up to the hype?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 YOU demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS EVER!These aren't the best musical scores or the best musicals, these are the soundtracks consisting of new or pre-existing songs that amplify the film in question, and/or stand on their own as a fantastic album!Find out which movies made Bibbs and Witney's respective lists, and join our Patreon to help pick our IRON LIST topic for July 2023!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, one of Godzilla's greatest enemies and bestest buddies makes her cinematic debut, in a lavish and colorful and musical (!) spectacular! It's MOTHRA, and it's an important milestone in the kaiju canon!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

Bibbs and Witney are answering YOUR emails and talking about their favorite action sequences in interesting locales, the best movie theaters in Los Angeles (and maybe the world), movies with whole scenes they think should've been cut, how STAR TREK cleverly filled a plot hole they previously complained about, and much more!It's an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL!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're back with reviews of the DCEU swan song THE FLASH, the transforming robot animal saga TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS, the Chris Hemsworth stunt spectacular EXTRACTION 2, the Pixar rom-com ELEMENTAL, the latest Wes Anderson film ASTEROID CITY, Eva Longoria's corporate biopic FLAMIN' HOT, and the Shudder horror drama BROOKLYN 45!It's an all-new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!The Flash - 2:52Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - 36:22Extraction 2 - 53:16Elemental - 1:08:33Asteroid City - 1:24:39Flamin' Hot - 1:38:17Brooklyn 45 - 1:51:19Review Round-Up - 1:58:45Subscribe 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://

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!This week, a TV-movie that got lost along the way, and wound up in theaters! It's VARAN, THE UNBELIEVABLE, about a giant monster that was minding its own business until scientists bothered it, and now those scientists have to kill it dead!Plus, Bibbs and Witney unpack the very different American version of the film, which adds new characters and new plot points, and only includes about 15 minutes of the original movie!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 & O