Canceled Too Soon

We found a failed pilot based on the blockbuster horror movie HOUSE OF WAX that was too intense for audiences in the 1960s, and got sent to theaters with a brand new gimmick, a brand new title (CHAMBER OF HORRORS) and - for some reason - a completely unnecessary cameo from Tony Curtis!Was this surprisingly violent detective series... CANCELED TOO SOON?William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are about to find out, as SCARYTOBER continues!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

It's a veritable extravaganza of new movie reviews!This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review David Gordon Green's THE EXORCIST: THE BELIEVER, as well as the final film from the director of The Exorcist, THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL! Plus, reviews of the sci-fi film THE CREATOR, the horror sequel SAW X, the sci-fi drama FOE, the horror time travel comedy TOTALLY KILLER, the brutally violent WHEN EVIL LURKS, the raunchy DICKS: THE MUSICAL, and all four of Wes Anderson's new Roald Dahl short films: THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR, POISON, THE SWAN and THE RAT CATCHER!It's another epic episode of film reviews, and it's AD-FREE just for patrons!The Exorcist: Believer - 2:43The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial - 35:24The Creator - 48:26Saw X - 1:01:50Foe - 1:23:45Totally Killer - 1:32:53When Evil Lurks - 1:44:52Dicks: The Musical - 1:53:48Wes Anderson's Roald Dahl Shorts - 2:04:05Review Round-Up - 2:28:00 Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!This week, an amoeba from space transforms a cuttlefish, a crab and a turtle into giant monsters, in a film somewhat fittingly titled SPACE AMOEBA!It's got some of the best visual effects we've seen so far on the THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY podcast... but is it also one of the worst films?You're about to find out!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://redcircl

We're bringing CANCELED TOO SOON back for the Halloween season, with a month-long event we call SCARYTOBER!First up, a failed pilot for a horror anthology series written and directed by Ed Wood, about an actor looking at things in a theater after dark! It's an episode called FINAL CURTAIN, in what would have been a show entitled PORTRAITS OF TERROR!Ed Wood has been called the worst director of all time, so why, dear listeners, do William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold spend so much time comparing his work to Alain Resnais and Ingmar Bergman? And was his failed pilot... CANCELED TOO SOON?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

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!This week, it's a film most GODZILLA fans hate, but a film that GODZILLA creator Ishiro Honda loved. And we're going to have one heck of a time deciding if it's the worst film in the series, the most interesting film in the series, or both!It's the anti-bullying coming of age drama ALL MONSTERS ATTACK, which happens to have monsters in it, in an all-new episode of THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY!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

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST SINGLE LOCATION MOVIES EVER! These are the movies that take place in a place that's so confining, it created a challenge for the filmmakers. And these are the films where the filmmakers overcame those challenges! We've got thrillers, comedies, dramas, sci-fi and horror movie recommendations awaiting you in this month's 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

It's must be Oscar season, because the biopics are descending! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the murder mystery A HAUNTING IN VENICE, the macho actionfest EXPEND4BLES, the sci-fi horror film NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU, the biopics CASSANDRO and A MILLION MILES AWAY and DUMB MONEY and EL CONDE, and the quasi-biopic queer noir ROTTING IN THE SUN!A Haunting in Venice - 3:14Expend4bles - 29:28No One Will Save You - 56:45Cassandro - 1:09:00A Million Miles Away - 1:20:10Dumb Money - 1:28:15El Conde - 1:43:35Rotting in the Sun - 1:51:57Review Round-Up - 2:00:35Subscribe 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!Adve

It's the first Godzilla movie we're reviewing that wasn't made in Japan! Has the world's mightiest kaiju finally met his match in Marv Newland's cult classic short film, BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA?It's an all-new episode of THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY, and it's over 20 times longer than the movie we're reviewing!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/privacy

It's an EXTRA-LONG episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL! Nearly two full hours of William Bibbiani and WItney Seibold answering YOUR correspondence about the future of the film industry (if it has one), strange TV edits of movies, the problem with searching for movies on streaming, the best and worst BBC Shakespeare adaptations, how to pick the first horror movie to show your kids, 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

It's the film that was supposed to end the GODZILLA series! Godzilla and Mothra and Rodan and Manda and Baragon and Minilla and Gorosaurus and Anguirus and Kumonga and Varan team up to destroy the world, and then save it from aliens!It's DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, in the latest episode of THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY!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/privacy

The CONJURING UNIVERSE is back and this time there's a scary nun in it! Again! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review THE NUN II on this week's CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED podcast, along with the Airbnb thriller 8 FOUND DEAD, the Sundance Award-winning comedy-drama SCRAPPER, and the folk music documentary STATE OF THE UNITY!The Nun II - 3:328 Found Dead - 34:52Scrapper - 42:50State of the Unity - 54:30Review Round-Up - 1:11:14Subscribe 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

Godzilla finds a baby Godzilla on an island populated by giant mantises, and a giant spider, and a bunch of scientists who want to freeze the Earth! It's SON OF GODZILLA, and the title character may or may not be our new favorite character THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY, the podcast where William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review every GODZILLA movie ever... on Fridays! 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/privacy

Denzel Washington's back and he's equalizing the hell out of Sicily in THE EQUALIZER 3! Film critics William BIbbiani and WItney Seibold review the latest thriller from director Antoine Fuqua, as well as the new documentary WE KILL FOR LOVE, about the straight-to-video erotic thrillers of the 1990s, and the new indie FREMONT!The Equalizer 3 - 2:02We Kill for Love - 29:00Fremont - 1:00:45Review Round-Up - 1:11:54Subscribe 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!A supervillain named Doctor Who (?!) kidnaps King Kong and makes him do his dirty work, and fight the giant robot Mechani-Kong! It's another rough day to be a kaiju, but a great day to be in the audience here at THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY! 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/privacy

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST BOX OFFICE BOMBS EVER!These are the best movies that didn't just fail to make money, but famously lost a LOT of money. But there's no direct correlation between a film's quality and its box office success, and sometimes even the biggest failures in motion picture history aren't just good... they're great!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

This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new sports biopic/video game movie GRAN TURISMO, the raucous teen comedy BOTTOMS, and the Liam Neeson thriller RETRIBUTION!And since you're a patron, you get to listen to the episode AD-FREE! Hurray!Gran Turismo - 2:42 Bottoms - 23:26 Retribution - 43:00 Review Round-Up - 52:44Subscribe 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, psychics, dance competitions and bank robberies all conspire to send a a ragtag band of misfits to an island run by nuclear powered terrorists who kidnapped people from Mothra's island to make yellow fluid that repels sea monsters! Godzilla is about to have a really bad day in... EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP!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/br

What are Bibbs and Witney's favorite Greek mythology epics, and how does BARBENHEIMER relate to the fall of the Hollywood costume epics in the mid-20th century? Which STAR TREK shows can you safely skip, and do they all have crappy first seasons? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer these questions and more on an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL podcast.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've got TWO superhero movies about unwitting heroes in bug armor fighting a villainous organization making super soldiers: BLUE BEETLE and SHIN MASKED RIDER!Plus, reviews of the Shudder horror movie BAD THINGS and the raunchy talking dog movie STRAYS!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, Frankenstein is back, and instead of getting framed for murder by a giant flappy-eared underground kaiju, he's getting framed for murder by another Frankenstein! It's THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS, and it directly inspired both ATTACK ON TITAN and PACIFIC RIM!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