Episodes
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla is 20,000 years old and the size of a mountain, and the handful of human and alien survivors have to team up with the Mothra twins and a city made of Mechagodzilla parts to destroy him once and for all! But what's standing in our hero's way this time, and why isn't Jet Jaguar in this one? He should be! Subscribe on Patreon...
Published 05/10/24
Published 05/10/24
It's one of the best weekends for new movies in years! But also UNFROSTED came out! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Jerry Seinfeld's Netflix comedy, the Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt action-comedy THE FALL GUY, Jane Schoenbrun's incredible new film I SAW THE TV GLOW, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's contemplative EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, the animated French sci-fi noir MARS EXPRESS, and the horror flick TAROT! Unfrosted - 2:29 The Fall Guy - 31:28 I...
Published 05/06/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla conquers planet Earth and humanity flees into outer space! And when they come back 20,000 years later Godzilla is still there, and bigger and scarier than ever! It's GODZILLA: PLANET OF THE MONSTERS, the first film in a whole trilogy of anime Godzilla films! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting...
Published 05/03/24
UPDATE: While discussing the film "Late Night with the Devil" in this episode, Witney Seibold and William Bibbiani had a debate about the film's (brief) use of A.I. art, in which Witney was sympathetic with the filmmakers since they were working on a budget. It has been less-than 12 hours since this episode was recorded and Witney wants everyone to know he's changed his mind, writing "Golly, I was very wrong last night. I regret ever thinking that A.I. had a part of any future that's not...
Published 05/01/24
Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST 24-HOUR MOVIES EVER! These are the films that take place entirely (or almost entirely) in a single day, and experience the humor, drama, horror, suspense, and more! It's nearly 2 1/2 hours of motion picture recommendations from Bibbs and Witney! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series,...
Published 04/28/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! King Kong gets transformed into an extended metaphor for the Vietnam War and fights a buncha weird stuff in KONG: SKULL ISLAND, the second film in the Legendary Monsterverse! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more! Email us...
Published 04/26/24
Bibbs and Witney are back and they're reviewing movies! MOVIES, WE TELL YOU!!! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, it's a smorgasbord of cinema, including Alex Garland;s CVIL WAR, the horror comedy ABIGAIL, the space opera REBEL MOON - PART 2: THE SCARGIVER, the sasquatch movie SASQUATCH SUNSET, the Guy Ritchie WIII caper THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE, the Nicolas Cage monster movie ARCADIAN, and the giant spider movie STING! CIVIL WAR - 2:22 ABIGAIL - 29:17 REBEL MOON - PART 2:...
Published 04/23/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla has fought giant moths, three-headed dragons, robot doppelgangers, and even a clump of smog, but in SHIN GODZILLA he's finally met his match: bureaucracy! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more! Email us...
Published 04/19/24
Bibbs and Witney are answering YOUR emails on an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL! This time, they're debating what gives an action sequence its impact, reminiscing about naugahyde, learning about video game criticism, and looking back at "twin" movies like DEEP IMPACT and ARMAGEDDON to decide which highly similar film was better! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much...
Published 04/16/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The Legendary Monsterverse begins with Gareth Edwards' GODZILLA, a film that took Godzilla so seriously that he barely shows up in it. But at least it's got Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche... for a few minutes... Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and...
Published 04/12/24
Monsters! Nuns! Monkeys! Clowns! Put them all together and you get,,, monunkeyowns! But also, you get the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! This week, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE, THE FIRST OMEN, MONKEY MAN and THE PEOPLE'S JOKER! Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - 3:10 The First Omen - 26:08 Monkey Man - 41:55 The People's Joker - 57:30 Review Round-Up - 1:16:52  Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get...
Published 04/10/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The Millennium Era comes to an epic end with GODZILLA: FINAL WARS, an X-Men movies crossed with The Matrix that gets bored of nu metal human fights after an hour and decides to become a Godzilla movie! Godzilla fights most of his greatest nemeses and even a few of his friends, in a film that would close out the franchise for ten whole years! Subscribe on Patreon...
Published 04/05/24
Bibbs and Witney used to do hour-long filmmaker interviews, and now we're bringing them back! It's an in-depth conversation with VERA DREW, the director and star of THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, the independent, autobiographical, transgender satire of the Batman villain and mythos! Her film is a personal work of art told through superhero iconography, a rare and unusual cinematic experiment with a lot to talk about! William Bibbiani and Vera Drew talk about THE PEOPLE'S JOKER in the first installment...
Published 04/02/24
Because YOU demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST FRANKENSTEIN MOVIES EVER! These are the films that are about and/or prominently feature the Devil, and not necessarily in the classical sense! Tons of movie recommendations and digressions ahead! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more! Email us...
Published 03/31/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! We're almost done with the Millennium Era, but before the big blow-out finale, we have to check back in with our old buddy Mechagodzilla! How you doing there, pal? Do you wanna do one last epic fight with Godzilla, and would you mind if Mothra showed up to make it interesting? And to die, of course, because that's what Mothra does? It's GODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S. on the latest...
Published 03/29/24
We came, we saw, we reviewed some movies! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and WItney Seibold review GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE, the remake of ROADHOUSE, the nunsploitation horror movie IMMACULATE, the French animal mutation drama THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, the pigeon racing heist movie LITTLE WING, the based-on-a-true World War II story ONE LIFE, and the Lindsay Lohan rom-com IRISH WISH! Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire- 9:11 Roadhouse - 56:28 Immaculate - 1:11:50 The Animal...
Published 03/26/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The director of GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRUS is back with GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA, a film that kinda remakes GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRUS! Can a stoic soldier and an eccentric scientist team up to stop Godzilla with a fantastic new superweapon? And can you believe how awesome the final fight is? Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive...
Published 03/22/24
We're back with a new WE'VE GOT MAIL, where we answer your correspondence, and talk about whatever you want us to talk about! This time, Bibbs and Witney explain the difference between scripts and screenplays, which version of a script gets judged by the Oscars, slow movies, plot holes, sequels that outclass the original, and more! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and...
Published 03/18/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla is evil again, and this time he's haunted by ghosts! To defeat him it will take the combined strength of heroic good guy kaiju like Mothra, Baragon and [checks notes]... King Ghidorah?! Bibbs and Witney venture into one of the stranger corners of the Godzilla multiverse in GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK! Subscribe on Patreon...
Published 03/15/24
The Oscars are finally over! We don't have to talk about them anymore! Except for this week, when we talk about them a little bit. Plus, new reviews of KUNG FU PANDA 4, the fourth film about a kung fu panda, the queer crime film LOVE LIES BLEEDING, the raunchy comedy RICKY STANICKY, and what the heck, let's throw AMERICAN DREAMER in there too! Oscars 2024 - 4:24 Kung Fu Panda 4 - 36:02 Love Lies Bleeding - 51:38 Ricky Stanicky - 57:35 American Dreamer - 1:06:21 Review Round-Up -...
Published 03/12/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Hey, do you remember those bug monsters from RODAN? They're back, and they're bigger than ever! Can Godzilla fight a giant dragonfly, destroy all of Japan's power companies, reboot his continuity (again), and survive a weaponized black hole? We'll find out in GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRUS! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts...
Published 03/08/24
Hey, DUNE: CHAPTER TWO is out! Does anybody out there like DUNE? Well, this week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED our critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing that DUNE, and also DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS because that came out too! Plus, Bibbs and Witney reveal their picks for what will win at the Oscars this year, and what should. DUNE: CHAPTER TWO - 5:28 DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS - 43:32 REVIEW ROUND-UP - 55:53 OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2024 - 58:05 Subscribe on Patreon...
Published 03/04/24
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The Millennium Era begins with a film about a new version of Godzilla fighting Roland Emmerich's UFOs from INDEPENDENCE DAY and a monster that looks kinda like Roland Emmerich's GODZILLA!  Hmm... I wonder why they have such a beef with Roland Emmerich? We'll find out in GODZILLA 2000: MILLENNIUM! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get...
Published 03/01/24
Bibbs and Witney don't make short podcasts, but this one is about short films! On the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review all 15 of the Oscar-nominated short films at the 96th annual Academy Awards, including the nominees for BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM, and BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive...
Published 02/28/24