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THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY! | "Half Human" (1955) Nov 17, 2023

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William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays!

And we do mean everymovie, 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!

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Critically Acclaimed #277 | The Marvels, The Killer, Dream Scenario, Priscilla, It's a Wonderful Knife, Nyad, A Holiday I Do Nov 13, 2023

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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 - 5:52

The Killer - 34:25

Dream Scenario - 47:30

Priscilla - 55:00

It's a Wonderful Knife - 1:08:42

Nyad - 1:21:37

A Holiday I Do - 1:29:29

Review Round-Up - 1:36:21

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THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY! | "Terror of Mechagodzilla" (1975) Nov 10, 2023

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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!

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Canceled Too Soon #244 | Quark (1977-1978) Nov 06, 2023

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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!

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THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY! | "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla" (1974) Nov 03, 2023

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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!

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Canceled Too Soon #243 | Frankenstein (2004) Oct 31, 2023

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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!

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Critically Acclaimed #276 | Five Nights at Freddy's, Killers of the Flower Moon, Divinity, More Than Ever, The Persian Version, Shaky Shivers Oct 30, 2023

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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!

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THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY! | "Godzilla vs. Megalon" (1973) Oct 27, 2023

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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!

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We've Got Mail #162 | Where We've Been and Why There's a Cricket Oct 25, 2023

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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!

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THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY | "Godzilla vs. Gigan" (1972) Oct 20, 2023

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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!

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