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We've Got Mail #160 | 'Twas the Night Before Picard Day! Aug 24, 2023

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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.

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Critically Acclaimed #270 | Blue Beetle, Shin Masked Rider, Bad Things, Strays Aug 21, 2023

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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!

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Thank Godzilla, It's Friday! | "The War of the Gargantuas" (1965) Aug 18, 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, 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!

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We've Got Mail #159 | SCIENCE TUBES!!! Aug 17, 2023

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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.

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Critically Acclaimed #269 | The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Heart of Stone, Aporia, Red White and Royal Blue, The Communion Girl Aug 15, 2023

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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 - 2:24

Heart of Stone - 27:25

Aporia - 49:14

Red, White and Royal Blue - 1:02:45

The Communion Girl - 1:16:35

Review Round-Up - 1:24:52

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Thank Godzilla, It's Friday! | "Invasion of Astro-Monster" (1965) Aug 11, 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, 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!

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Critically Acclaimed #268 | Haunted Mansion (2023), Talk To Me, They Cloned Tyrone, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Aug 09, 2023

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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 podcast

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We've Got Mail #158 | Do Movies Really NEED 'Character Development?' Aug 07, 2023

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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!

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Thank Godzilla, It's Friday! | "Frankenstein Conquers the World" (1965) Aug 04, 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, 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!

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Canceled Too Soon #239 | "Turn-On" (8:30pm-8:40pm, February 5, 1969) Aug 02, 2023

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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!

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