Canceled Too Soon

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

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR emails and talk about the perils of catching up to long-running TV shows, movie franchises and comics, as well as great films about grief, what those science tubes in all the mad scientist labs actually do, and - because our listener demanded it - what they have to criticize about each other.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

There's a Dracula on a boat and film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold have opinions. This week they've got reviews of THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, the Netflix spy thriller HEART OF STONE, the time travel drama APORIA, the sexy Amazon rom-com RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE, and the Shudder Original movie THE COMMUNION GIRL!The Last Voyage of the Demeter - 2:24Heart of Stone - 27:25Aporia - 49:14Red, White and Royal Blue - 1:02:45The Communion Girl - 1:16:35Review Round-Up - 1:24:52Subscribe 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, aliens who dress like Devo ask Earth to borrow Godzilla and Rodan in exchange for the cure for cancer, only to turn right around and use Godzilla, Rodan and King Ghidorah to conquer the planet Earth! It's INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER, and it's the film where Godzilla dances!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: h

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