Canceled Too Soon

Bibbs and Witney are buckling down and catching up on some Patreon podcasts, so this week's CANCELED TOO SOON has been delayed, but we do have enough scintillating letters to present a long-awaited new installment of WE'VE GOT MAIL!They're answering questions about acclaimed movie performances they don't think are very good, the ins and outs of STAR TREK conventions, whether SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE is still good or not, and much more!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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Because YOU demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for the best car chase movies in history!These cars go vroom vroom! Also some trucks and motorcycles. BUT NO TRAINS. THAT'S THE RULE.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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Three years before FOREVER KNIGHT became a hit TV series about a cop who's also a vampire, NICK KNIGHT was a failed TV series about a cop who's also a vampire!Rick Springfield stars in the original TV movie, which tells the same story as the pilot for FOREVER KNIGHT except with a bigger budget, better music, and also it's much, much, much less popular.But could it be that NICK KNIGHT was CANCELED TOO SOON? And could it even have been better than FOREVER KNIGHT...?[NOTE: We had to record this episode remotely, which led to some audio issues which we have fixed to the best of our ability, which is to say, not entirely. Some of the audio may be quieter than usual as a result.]SCARYTOBER begins!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!Advertising Inqu

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the possibly great and possibly crap MEGALOPOLIS, the animated sci-fi parable THE WILD ROBOT, Jason Reitman's behind the scenes movie about the first episode of SATURDAY NIGHT (live), and a silent post-apocalyptic horror thriller starring Samara Weaving called AZRAEL!Megalopolis - 4:02 The Wild Robot - 32:05Saturday Night - 48:45 Azrael - 1:11:28 Review Round-Up - 1:20:38Subscribe 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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

One week after THE DUCK FACTORY joked about all of Tim Conway's failed TV shows, we've got one of Tim Conway's failed TV shows! Conway stars as ACE CRAWFORD: PRIVATE EYE, a private detective who bumbles his way through various crimes, and only occasionally dresses up in offensive disguises!It's a spoof comedy in the tradition of POLICE SQUAD, but maybe a little too much in that tradition, because it was also canceled after only a few episodes. But was it CANCELED TOO SOON?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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's about to get weird! And Transformer-y! And... weird!This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the award-winning gross out art house horror comedy drama satire THE SUBSTANCE, the animated franchise prequel TRANSFORMERS ONE, the George Clooney/Brad Pitt crime comedy WOLFS, the Alexandre Aja/Halle Berry horror movie NEVER LET GO, the bleak Canadian thriller RED ROOMS, and the ensemble drama HIS THREE DAUGHTERS!The Substance - 6:08 Transformers One - 30:38 Wolfs - 51:00 Never Let Go - 1:00:40 Red Rooms - 1:12:33 His Three Daughters - 1:38:17 Review Round-Up - 1:23:39Subscribe 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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

10 Years before Jim Carrey became the biggest star in Hollywood, he was almost the biggest star in television! Jim Carrey starred in a sitcom called THE DUCK FACTORY back in 1984, about a team of wacky animators working at a struggling studio.If THE DUCK FACTORY had been a hit, Carrey's career might have gone in a very different direction. Could it be that Carrey's biggest early failure was... CANCELED TOO SOON?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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We've got reviews of new (and new-ish) films like Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, the horror remake SPEAK NO EVIL, the Netflix thriller REBEL RIDGE, the Netflix YA film UGLIES, Kevin Smith's nostalgic THE 4:30 MOVIE, the indie cat transformation movie BOOGER, the horror comedy THE FRONT ROOM, the grim western THE THICKET, and the buzzy indie horror hit STRANGE DARLING!Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - 4:02Speak No Evil - 33:20Rebel Ridge - 46:06 Uglies - 59:38 The 4:30 Movie - 1:16:39Booger - 1:29:21The Front Room - 1:39:44The Thicket - 1:50:42Strange Darling - 1:59:13Review Round-Up - 2:08:25Subscribe 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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You loved his Muppet Christmas special. You loved him when he met God. And you sure as heck loved his mellow country jams. But will you love John Denver when he's KICKING ASS IN ALASKA?William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold ascend to HIGHER GROUND, a failed TV pilot starring relaxing music legend John Denver as a tough FBI agent fighting bootleggers in Alaska!Can John Denver save Alaska from [checks notes] booze?! And was his show... CANCELED TOO SOON?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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You knew this was coming, and if you didn't, well, now you do. The staggeringly expensive TV series STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE - which was about an acolyte, in Star Wars - was just canceled after one season. It was ambitious, and it pissed people off for mostly weird reasons, but some people loved it.Now the only question is... was it CANCELED TOO SOON?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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What do you get when you cross a supernatural bird with the president of the united states? And also A.I.?You get this week's CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the remake of THE CROW, the John Woo's remake of John Woo's THE KILLER, Ray Liotta's final film 1992, the HFS presidential biopic REAGAN, Lee Daniels' exorcism movie THE DELIVERANCE, the Blumhouse A.I. scare flick AFRAID, and the little league drama YOU GOTTA BELIEVE!The Crow - 3:27The Killer - 34:161992 - 52:09Reagan - 1:03:58 The Deliverance - 1:27:52 AfrAId - 1:39:02 You Gotta Believe - 1:50:20Review Round-Up - 1:56:20Subscribe 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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.

NBC made a knockoff of THE LOVE BOAT that was so expensive - and such a huge failure - that it almost bankrupted the network!Folks, this is SUPERTRAIN, a series about a nuclear-powered train with celebrity guests who for some reason are always committing crimes! Huge names! Weird stories! Could it be that one of the most notorious TV shows ever was... CANCELED TOO SOON?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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Because YOU demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present THE BEST MOVIES OF THE 1970s!The 1970s were one of the best decades for movies - ever - the lists may surprise you. There's a really good chance you haven't even heard of a lot of them!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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Years before Dennis Franz joined N.Y.P.D. BLUE he sat astride a horse and chased a tiger through Central Park in N.Y.P.D. MOUNTED! And also he kinda had sex with a car for some reason!With early roles for John Leguizamo, Kristin Davis and Roxann Dawson, N.Y.P.D. MOUNTED is the wacky horse cop TV show you didn't know you might have always wanted, maybe. It only lasted one episode, but was it CANCELED TOO SOON?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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new and new-ish releases ALIEN: ROMULUS, the animated WATCHMEN: CHAPTER 1, M. Night Shyamalan's TRAP, the horror film CUCKOO, the video game adaptation BORDERLANDS, the Hammer horror film DR. JEKYLL, the Netflix action comedy THE UNION, the Irish rap biopic KNEECAP, the indie sci-fi thriller THE ABANDON, the Matt Damon/Doug Liman reunion THE INSTIGATORS, the family film HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON, and the thriller SKINCARE!It's over 2 1/2 hours of movie reviews!Alien: Romulus - 4:08Rebel Moon: Director's Cuts - 42:30Watchmen: Chapter 1 - 1:04:30Trap - 1:13:50Cuckoo - 1:24:44Borderlands - 1:32:38Dr. Jekyll - 1:40:38The Union - 1:52:35Kneecap - 2:00:15The Abandon - 2:05:00The Instigators - 2:09:25Harold and the Purple Crayon - 2:17:46Skincare - 2:27:13Review Round-Up - 2:32:42Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email u

Ben Stiller returned to Fox - the network that canceled his Emmy Award-winning BEN STILLER SHOW - after becoming a box office superstar! The project: HEAT VISION AND JACK, a comedy starring Jack Black as a fugitive astronaut with mind powers, Owen Wilson as a talking motorcycle, and Ron Silver as Ron Silver, a superpowered NASA mercenary who also acts in movies in his spare time.HEAT VISION AND JACK is one of the most beloved failed TV pilots in history, but was it really CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are about to find out!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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Because YOU demanded it, Bibbs and Witney are presenting their picks for THE BEST MEDIEVAL MOVIES EVER!Comedies, horror movies, art house classics and action films, the only thing they all have in common is that they take place between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500.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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

David Lynch created one of the most important television shows of all-time: TWIN PEAKS! But he didn't stop there. He also co-created an ambitious anthology series set in the same hotel room on different days and years, starring Harry Dean Stanton, Glenne Headly, Deborah Kara Unger, Mariska Hargitay, Griffin Dunne, Crispin Glover and Alicia Witt!It's HOTEL ROOM, and it may or may not have been CANCELED TOO SOON!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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

They're fish. They're police. And they're horny?This week on CANCELED TOO SOON, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold swim back to the 1990s to visit one of the first primetime animated series to emerge after the unexpected success of THE SIMPSONS! John Ritter, Megan Mullally, Hector Elizondo, JoBeth Williams, Robert Guillaume and Ed Asner star in FISH POLICE, a cop comedy about fish who solve crimes and really, really, really want to have sex with each other.FISH POLICE was canceled after only three episodes, but was it... CANCELED TOO SOON?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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take a stab at the R-rated Marvel blockbuster DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, the breezy storm chaser sequel TWISTERS, the acclaimed coming of age drama DIDI, the scary-as-hell horror movie ODDITY, and the all-star hangout movie THE FABULOUS FOUR!Deadpool & Wolverine - 3:12Twisters - 48:59 Didi - 1:07:15 Oddity - 1:16:40 The Fabulous Four - 1:26:50 REview Round-Up - 1:39:35 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy