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We've Got Mail #56 | Are Americans Really Like They Are Portrayed in Movies? Nov 26, 2020

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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 what's wrong with so many coming of age movies, exploring the history and relevance of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, give Bibbs a chance to review some shows on Quibi, and reveal which movie tropes about Americans are actually 100% true!

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Critically Acclaimed #151 | Wolfwalkers, Small Axe: Mangrove, Run, Collective, The Last Vermeer, and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter Nov 25, 2020

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has returned from the grave and we've brought a bunch of new movie reviews with us!

This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new animated fantasy WOLFWALKERS, Steve McQueen's Amazon film SMALL AXE: MANGROVE, the Hitchcockian Hulu thriller RUN, the hard-hitting documentary COLLECTIVE and the World War II drama THE LAST VERMEER!

Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney are forced to sit through the cult horror-western hybrid JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, which is... quite a thing.

Wolfwalkers - 10:24 Small Axe: Mangrove - 28:54 Run - 39:46 Collective - 55:20 The Last Vermeer - 1:01:58 Movie Review Round-Up - 1:10:18 Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter - 1:13:21

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Rocky Horror: Episode Zero - Forbidden Planet (1956) Nov 20, 2020

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Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point!

This week on EPISODE ZERO they travel to the 1956 sci-fi classic FORBIDDEN PLANET, which blazed new trails in sound design, special effects, out of this world storytelling and repressed sexuality!

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We've Got Mail #55 | Which Other Movies Deserved a D+? Nov 19, 2020

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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 find out why snow sucks, recommend how to introduce movies to your kids (and pick out their first movie ever), explain why the credits are important, ponder the big questions about their fandom of STAR TREK and reveal which older movies would have received their lowest rating... which has only ever been given to CATS!

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Critically Acclaimed #150 | Mank, Freaky, Ammonite, The Climb, The Life Ahead, Jingle Jangle, Wild Wild West Nov 17, 2020

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has a chalice from the palace full of movie reviews!

This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new releases MANK, FREAKY, AMMONITE, THE CLIMB, THE LIFE AHEAD and JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY!

Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney venture way out west to watch WILD WILD WEST, the massive blockbuster flop from 1999! Is it really as bad as they say?

Mank - 3:46 Freaky - 27:47 Ammonite - 40:36 The Climb 48:52 The Life Ahead - 53:57 Jingle Jangle - 57:04 Wild Wild West - 1:10:34

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Rocky Horror: Episode Zero - Scorpio Rising (1963) Nov 13, 2020

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Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point!

This week on EPISODE ZERO they gear up for Kenneth Anger's experimental queer short film SCORPIO RISING, about a group of masculine bikers who defy popular convention. Bibbs and Witney explore the way that SCORPIO RISING forever changed how filmmakers used movie music, paved the way to help legalize controversial and risqué motion pictures, inspired Martin Scorsese and David Lynch and Nicolas Winding Refn, and much, much more!

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We've Got Mail #54 | What Movie Props Do We Want the Most? Nov 12, 2020

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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 learn more about FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, talk about the movie props they want to add to their collections, consider the links between extended universes and fandoms, discuss the difference between "good taste" and "wrong taste," and choose the movie theme months they want to get started!

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Critically Acclaimed #149 | Proxima, Let Him Go, Attack of the Demons, Operation Christmas Drop, Holidate, Fiddler on the Roof Nov 10, 2020

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has a giant cornucopia of movie reviews!

This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new releases PROXIMA, LET HIM GO and ATTACK OF THE DEMONS, and the Netflix Christmas comedies OPERATION OF CHRISTMAS DROP and HOLIDATE!

Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney look back at the highest grossing movie of 1971, the iconic and Oscar-winning musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

Proxima - 2:12 Let Him Go - 13:08 Attack of the Demons - 23:45 Operation Christmas Drop - 36:00 Holidate - 53:48 Fiddler on the Roof - 1:05:04

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Rocky Horror: Episode Zero - The Old Dark House (1932) Nov 08, 2020

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Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point!

This week on EPISODE ZERO they explore the way ROCKY HORROR took its influences from the horror, sci-fi and queer films that preceded it, starting with Jame Whale's brilliant yet often-overlooked THE OLD DARK HOUSE! It's the film that helped introduce many of the horrifying tropes we take for granted today, and it's kooky as hell to boot.

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My Dinner With My Dinner With Andre (With Tentpole Trauma!) Nov 07, 2020

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William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are inviting fascinating people to watch MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, a film about fascinating people having a conversation, and have their own conversation about it!

This week's guests are Sebastian and Jennifer from TENTPOLE TRAUMA, the podcast where they do post-mortems on would-be blockbusters that weren't! Subscribe to TENTPOLE TRAUMA on ApplePodcasts!!

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