Critically Acclaimed #347 | The Running Man, Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Nouvelle Vague, Arco, Lesbian Space Princess, Keeper, The Carpenter's Son, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, A Merry Little Ex-Mas

Bibbs and Witney review WICKED: FOR GOOD, the Brendan Fraser drama RENTAL FAMILY, the Eurospy throwback REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, the action sequel SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE and the Netflix rom-com CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS!(UPDATE: It has come to our attention that we accidentally misgendered filmmaker Hikari in this episode. We apologize for this extreme oversight and we will not make this mistake in the future.)Wicked: For Good - 2:00Rental Family - 32:00Reflection in a Dead Diamond - 43:15Sisu: Road to Revenge - 55:55Champagne Problems - 1:06:20Review Round-Up - 1:14:55Subscribe 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 [email protected], 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

Bibbs and Witney review a great big pile o' new releases, including Edgar Wright's Stephen King adaptation THE RUNNING MAN, the magic heist threequel NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T, Richard Linklater's ode to Jean-Luc Godard (and Godard's ego) NOUVELLE VAGUE, the French animated time travel story ARCO, the Australian animated lesbian space princess story LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS, Osgood Perkins' cabin in the woods thriller KEEPER, the biblical Nicolas Cage horror movie THE CARPENTER'S SON, the Jonas Brothers Christmas movie A VERY JONAS CHRISTMAS MOVIE, and the Alicia Silverstone Christmas movie A MERRY LITTLE EX-MAS!The Running Man - 9:55 Now You See Me: Now You Don't - 36:30Nouvelle Vague - 47:18Arco - 1:00:48Lesbian Space Princess - 1:14:26Keeper - 1:24:50The Carpenter's Son - 1:39:10A Very Jonas Christmas Movie - 1:48:48A Merry Little Ex-Mas - 1:57:13Review Round-Up - 2:05:33Subscribe 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 [email protected], 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

Bibbs and Witney review the new sci-fi sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS, the new international ensemble drama SENTIMENTAL VALUE, Yorgos Lanthimos' kidnapping thriller BUGONIA, the historical legal drama NUREMBERG, Lynne Ramsay's latest DIE MY LOVE, Colin Farrell's gambling woes in BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER, the Netflix animated kids flick IN YOUR DREAMS, and the Sydney Sweeney boxing biopic CHRISTY!Predator: Badlands - 5:55 Sentimental Value - 33:53 Bugonia - 47:35 Nuremberg - 58:18 Die, My Love - 1:08:10 Ballad of a Small Player - 1:22:23 In Your Dreams - 1:35:07 Christy - 1:41:41 Review Round-Up - 1:55:45Subscribe 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 [email protected], 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

Bibbs and Witney are back and answering YOUR letters and emails about Siskel and Ebert, UCLA Film School, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, and yes, even Heathcliff! The cat! Really It's a whole, cool thing!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 [email protected], 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

Bibbs and Witney love movie marathons, and they've each programmed an awesome all-nighter for Halloween 2025!Welcome to THE ALL-NIGHTER, a new thing we're trying! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold each concoct their own perfect all-night movie marathon, with movies and shorts and TV episodes designed to give you the ultimate holiday experience, starting with a scary movie creeptacular for Halloween!Who came up with the best all-night Halloween movie night? You'll have to let us know!If you like this podcast, let us know! It won't be a regular weekly or bi-weekly staple at the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK, but we might do more episodes for special holidays and other popular observances and anniversaries.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 [email protected], 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

Bibbs and Witney review Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN, Scott Derrickson’s supernatural sequel BLACK PHONE 2, film critic Chris Stuckmann’s directorial debut SHELBY OAKS, Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear thriller A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, Netflix’s animated Roald Dahl adaptation THE TWITS, the hit anime film CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC, Nia DaCosta’s updated Henrik Ibsen adaptation HEDDA, Michelle Garza Cervera’s remake of THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, and Tina Romero’s queer zombie comedy QUEENS OF THE DEAD!Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein - 6:45 Black Phone 2 - 34:20 Shelby Oaks - 48:28 A House of Dynamite - 1:04:35 The Twits - 1:21:20 Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc - 1:38:13 Hedda - 1:50:10 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - 1:59:55 Queens of the Dead - 2:10:18 Review Round-Up - 2:18:16 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 [email protected], 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

The podcast where Bibbs and Witney track down and play retro movie and television tabletop games on the air is back! We got a lot of positive feedback about THIS AIN'T NO GAME, so we're keeping it around a while.This time they go head to head in STAR TREK: THE GOLDEN TRIVIA GAME, released in 1985, covering the entire original series and the first three movies! And we gotta warn you, these questions are HARD.Listen up as Bibbs and Witney suffer one ignominious failure after another, and find out if Witney can continue his winning streak, after he obliterated Bibbs last episode, in TRIVIAL PURSUIT: SILVER SCREEN EDITION!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 [email protected], 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, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for THE BEST VAMPIRE MOVIES! Like, EVER!Friends, there are SO MANY vampire movies, it's ridiculous. But between them, Bibbs and Witney manage to take a hefty bite out of the genre, by presenting the very best of the on THE IRON LIST!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 [email protected], 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

Bibbs and Witney review Disney's latest attempt to make TRON happen, TRON: ARES! Plus, the sword-and-sorcery reboot DEATHSTALKER, the dog-in-a-haunted-house movie GOOD BOY, the Dwayne Johnson Oscar-hopeful THE SMASHING MACHINE, Shane Black's Amazon crime caper PLAY DIRTY, Luca Guadagnino's topical all-star drama AFTER THE HUNT, Daniel Day-Lewis's first film in eight years ANEMONE, Bryan Bertino's evil box movie VICIOUS, the Orwellian documentary ORWELL: 2+2=5, and the anime track-and-field drama 100 METERS!Tron: Ares - 2:40 Deathstalker - 29:28 Good Boy - 50:12 The Smashing Machine - 59:22 Play Dirty - 1:08:55 After the Hunt - 1:23:12 Anemone - 1:32:15Orwell: 2+2=5 - 1:45:00 Vicious - 1:58:15 100 Meters - 2:06:48 Review Round-Up - 2:13:30 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 [email protected], 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

The idea for THIS AIN'T NO GAME (named after the classic SUPER MARIO BROS: THE MOVIE tagline) is simple: We track down and play retro table top games, but only the ones related to movies! It could be movie trivia, official tie-ins, card games, even role-playing games if we find a fun one!For our pilot episode, Bibbs and Witney scrounge up the beloved TRIVIAL PURSUIT: SILVER SCREEN EDITION, which was released in 1983. Which means there are no trivia questions about movies after 1983, so some of the questions could be very tricky, and some of the answers might not be accurate anymore!If you like this episode and want us to make more, YOU HAVE TO LET US KNOW. Otherwise we'll think you hated it and we'll stop! So tell us in the Patreon comments, find us on social media, add a review on Apple Podcasts, write us an email or a postcard, whatever works for you.And if you have any suggestions for old movie-themed board games or card games or RPGs we should play, let us know that too!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 [email protected], 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