Canceled Too Soon

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore the Hayao Miyazaki's new animated film THE BOY AND THE HERON, Yorgos Lanthimos's Frankenstein feminism dramedy POOR THINGS, Ava DuVernay's ambitious treatise on class and racism ORIGIN, the unexpected new animated superhero movie MERRY LITTLE BATMAN, and the motion picture sensation that's sweeping the world... SKIBIDI TOILET!The Boy and the Heron - 2:41Poor Things - 32:12Origin - 45:19Merry Little Batman - 1:06:08Skibidi Toilet - 1:20:16Review Round-Up - 1:35:23Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code criticallyacclaimed50 for a great deal: https://www.facto

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!This week, there's Godzilla fights a giant rosebush that's spliced with his DNA and haunted by the ghost of a mad scientist's daughter! It's GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE and it's... folks, it's really a lot.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 at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code criticallyacclaimed50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bibbs got his computer back from the shop, just in time for the first weekend in December, which is always one of the slowest weekends of the year!But! This year we've got a pretty eclectic group of films, including the much ballyhooed GODZILLA MINUS ONE, the Eddie Murphy Christmas comedy CANDY CANE LANE, John Woo's silent action thriller SILENT NIGHT, and the new thriller starring Thomasin Mackenzie and Anne Hathaway, EILEEN!Godzilla Minus One - 4:35Candy Cane Lane - 31:33Silent Night - 49:45Eileen - 107:21Review Round-Up - 1:15:34Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code criticallyacclaimed50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/Advertising Inquiries

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!This week, there's only one thing Godzilla loves more than smashing stuff, and it's a delicious Dr. Pepper! Godzilla returns once again in GODZILLA 1985, the American version of GODZILLA RETURNS with more comic relief, more product placement, and more Raymond Burr!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 at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code criticallyacclaimed50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We're back from Thanksgiving break and Bibbs's computer is broken again but we're making it work somehow!This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold exhume Disney's WISH, go historical on Ridley Scott's NAPOLEON, get a little... um... salty-burned on Emerald Fennell's SALTBURN, conduct an investigation into Bradley Cooper's MAESTRO, take a seat for the documentary AMERICAN SYMPHONY, go month-to-month for Todd Haynes's MAY DECEMBER, do lizard things for the Adam Sandler animated comedy LEO, get disturbed by DO NOT DISTURB and decide if GOOD BURGER 2 is good, burgery, and/or 2!Wish - 9:54Napoleon - 34:20Saltburn - 48:06Maestro - 57:50American Symphony = 1:10:00May December = 1:15:10Leo - 1:22:51Do Not Disturb - 1:33:29Good Burger 2 - 1:41:53Review Round-Up - 2:00:14Subscribe on Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!Godzilla took most of a decade off and almost fought the devil, but instead he's back in a reboot that ignores every movie in the series except the original! That's right, David Gordon Green didn't invent that! Godzilla returns in THE RETURN OF GODZILLA!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code criticallyacclaimed50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/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 NON-TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER!It's a cavalcade of Christmas-themed movies that either defy Christmas movie conventions, or are languishing in obscurity while more famous films dominate all the "other" top ten lists!Find out what Bibbs and Witney picked on this brand-new episode of THE IRON LIST!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code criticallyacclaimed50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/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!And we do mean every movie, because this week we're playing catch-up with another Ishiro Honda-directed monster movie, which would cross over into the GODZILLA franchise in a single panel of a single comic book as a throwaway Easter Egg! It's the killer yeti movie HALF HUMAN!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code criticallyacclaimed50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani is back and we're reviewing some gosh-darned MOVIES, dang it!This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, Bibbs and Witney Seibold review the new MCU movie THE MARVELS, the David Fincher thriller THE KILLER, the Nicolas Cage fantasy drama DREAM SCENARIO, the Sofia Coppola biopic PRISCILLA, the holiday slasher IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE, the Netflix biopic NYAD, and the queer holiday rom-com A HOLIDAY I DO!The Marvels - 5:52The Killer - 34:25Dream Scenario - 47:30Priscilla - 55:00It's a Wonderful Knife - 1:08:42Nyad - 1:21:37A Holiday I Do - 1:29:29Review Round-Up - 1:36:21 Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcirc

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!This week, a mad scientist rebuilds Mechagodzilla and puts his secret cyborg daughter in charge of controlling both the giant robot and the new kaiju Titanosaurus! TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA isn't just Ishiro Honda's final Godzilla movie, it's the last movie he ever directed, and the final Godzilla movie until the 1980s!Plus: Archaeology, super tobacco pipes, the introduction of King Caesar, and the final appearance for decades of Godzilla's canonical best friend... Anguirus!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out:

We said we'd be back with more CANCELED TOO SOON sooner than you think, and we meant it!What started out as a gag on this week's episode of our STAR TREK podcast ALL OUR YESTERDAYS is now a long-awaited episode of CANCELED TOO SOON.It's QUARK, the short-lived sci-fi comedy sitcom from GET SMART co-creator Buck Henry, starring Richard Benjamin as the captain of an interstellar garbage scow getting in wacky adventures a la STAR TREK and STAR WARS.It only lasted eight episodes, but could it be that QUARK was... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are about to 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!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https:

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!This week, Godzilla meets his evil twin, a giant metal robot with rainbow laser eyes and rocket fingers, controlled by aliens from a black hole planet, in GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA! Plus: Archaeology, super tobacco pipes, the introduction of King Caesar, and the final appearance for decades of Godzilla's canonical best friend... Anguirus!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We started SCARYTOBER with a failed horror pilot from one of the worst filmmakers in history, and we end with a failed horror pilot from one of the best! Martin Scorsese teamed up with author Dean Koonz and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remake director Marcus Nispel to bring you FRANKENSTEIN, a modern update of the classic novel, starring Parker Posey as a New Orleans cop who teams up with the man-made monster to fight crime!Was it CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are going to 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!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Witney Seibold flies solo and proves for the umpteenth time that he's absolutely fantastic! While William Bibbiani endures a chaotic and exhausting move, Witney reviews the new and new-ish releases FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, DIVINITY, MORE THAN EVER, THE PERSIAN VERSION and SHAKY SHIVERS!It's an all-new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, and don't worry, because even though Witney absolutely rocked this, Bibbs won't be gone for much longer!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!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, the underwater kingdom of Seatopia hijacks a robot named Jet Jaguar, to use it as a tour guide for their rampaging monster. It's GODZILLA VS. MEGALON, and also Gigan again, in one of the silliest Godzilla movies of them all!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We're back! Where were we? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explain why their lives have been thrown into chaos lately - and why a cricket is co-hosting this episode - in an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where they answer YOUR emails! And they answer a whole heck of a lot of them!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!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 and his best buddy Anguirus rush to humanity's rescue as cockroach aliens deceive a manga artist and turn a children's amusement park into a death machine, before unleashing King Ghidorah and his best buddy, Gigan, who is a cyborg razor goose!Plus: How will Witney fare in Bibbs's new game show? You'll find out in THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

SCARYTOBER continues with a failed TV pilot from the director of KINKY BOOTS, the co-writer of one of the best STAR TREK episodes ever, and what the heck, let's throw Faye Dunaway in there too!It's ANONYMOUS REX, and it's about a velociraptor private detective investigating a murder mystery in a world where dinosaurs didn't go extinct, but did go into hiding, and are impersonating humans using holograms!Was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are about to 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!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today!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 SCI-FI HORROR MOVIES EVER MADE!Monsters! Mad scientists! Math! Everything that could possibly scare you about science run amok awaits in the latest episode of THE IRON LIST!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, Godzilla fights a monster made out of human waste and toxic waste, in the very strange and very gross GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH, a.k.a. GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER!We know we say this every week but this very well might be the weirdest movie we've reviewed on THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY! Again! Really!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/brands