Wednesday, September 30, 2020

The Iron List #11 | The Best William Shakespeare Movies

Every month on THE IRON LIST, the Patrons of the Critically Acclaimed Network get to pick a topic for a giant-sized episode!

This month it's THE BEST WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MOVIES, with films that adapt the greatest playwright in history to the big screen! We've got war movies, sci-fi movies, samurai movies, sexy comedies and more!

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Critically Acclaimed #144 | Enola Holmes, The Swerve, The Artist's Wife, Gaslight

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has several movies to review this week! Not as many as usual, but some! 

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new YA adventure ENOLA HOLMES, the despairing drama THE SWERVE and the marriage melodrama THE ARTIST'S WIFE!

Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney journey into the dark and tortured world of George Cukor's GASLIGHT!

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Saturday, September 26, 2020

Canceled Too Soon #199 | Clerks (1995)

 

Kevin Smith's first film, CLERKS, was a motion picture sensation in the early 1990s, speaking for a disenfranchised generation and making pop culture discourse part of the cinematic lexicon, along with the films of Quentin Tarantino. So naturally they made it into a boring sitcom!

Was CLERKS, a failed TV pilot that Kevin Smith had nothing to do with, CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore this epic misfire, featuring future stars Keri Russell and Jim Breuer, to see where the heck it all went wrong! 

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Friday, September 25, 2020

We've Got Mail #47 | Why Do We Make So Many Podcasts?

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 talk about why they make so many danged podcasts, why they don't want to be quoted all the time in movie marketing, movie scores we know best from other movies, why you should (or shouldn't) meet your heroes, more queer movie recommendations, how to get started writing movie reviews and why so many movies about racism seem to be made for white audiences! 

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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Critically Acclaimed #143 | Antebellum, The Devil All the Time, Spiral, Alone, Wireless, Cape Fear


CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has a shocking number of films to review this week! 

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new VOD horror film ANTEBELLUM, the Netflix southern gothic drama THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME, the Shudder thriller SPIRAL, the VOD thriller ALONE and the Quibi thriller WIRELESS!

Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney delve into the scuzzy neo-noir realm of the original CAPE FEAR!

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Sunday, September 20, 2020

Canceled Too Soon #198 | Baccano! (2007)

ANIME MONTH concludes - really, really late - with a series about prohibition era gangsters, a few immortals, some serial killers and a heck of a lot more!

Is BACCANO! the most complex series we've ever seen at CANCELED TOO SOON? And was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold unravel the threads of this cult favorite anime show! 

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

We've Got Mail #46 | Our Favorite Movie Urban Legends!

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 talk about which classic stories need modern movie updates, the depiction of mental illness in cinema, more queer movie recommendations, whether films need sympathetic protagonists or not, blockbusters vs. indies in the year 2020, their favorite urban legends about movies, international film distribution and more!

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