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This Ain't No Game #1 | Trivial Pursuit: Silver Screen Edition (1983) Listen to Critically Acclaimed Network on RedCircle

We're trying something new at The Critically Acclaimed Network!

THIS AIN'T NO GAME is a podcast where @witneyseibold.bsky.social and I play retro movie-themed games.

We're starting with TRIVIAL PURSUIT: SILVER SCREEN EDITION! It's from 1983, so are the answers still accurate? Let's find out!

Bibbs and Witney point at you, the audience, in a still image from the Movie Trivia Schmoedown web series

We don't know if we're going to make any more episodes of THIS AIN'T NO GAME, so let us know if you like it! Comment here, or on our patreon page, or send us an email, or train a carrier pigeon, whatever you gotta do.

If we don't get any feedback we'll assume this sucks and never do it again!

Our patrons now have early access to the next CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review 10 new films, including SUPERMAN, JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH, KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, HOT SPRING SHARK ATTACK, KILL THE JOCKEY, TO A LAND UNKNOWN and more!

Everyone else can hear the ep tomorrow!

Critically Acclaimed Newsletter (7/13/25): We’re Back! A Podcaster’s Tale | The Critically Acclaimed Network Get more from The Critically Acclaimed Network on Patreon

We have a weekly newsletter for our CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK patrons! And it's free!

All you gotta do is sign up and you'll get personal essays, reviews of art we don't get to talk about in other mediums (or don't have enough time to discuss properly), and all the links to our latest articles!

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New episode!

We've got ballerinas! Predators! Sharks! Chucks! Julianne Moores and Sydney Sweeneys!

Reviews of BALLERINA, PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, THE LIFE OF CHUCK, DANGEROUS ANIMALS and ECHO VALLEY await you on an all-new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED podcast! redcircle.com/shows/critic...

That's the prologue! After the opening scenes it takes place ten years later.

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Bibbs and Witney get crane kicked in the face!

Also, they're reviewing the new KARATE KID: LEGENDS, Wes Anderson's THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, and BRING HER BACK, the second film from the directors of TALK TO ME!

It's an all-new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, you lucky so-and-so's! redcircle.com/shows/24b1bd...

Clown in a Cornfield

Fight or Flight

Absolute Dominion

Summer of 69

We're back with a slew of new movie reviews, including the "okay I guess" CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, the kooky Josh Hartnett actioner FIGHT OR FLIGHT, the ambitious religious fighting tournament movie ABSOLUTE DOMINION, Jillian Bell's hilarious SUMMER OF 69, and the latest Billy Shakes, JULIET & ROMEO!

Bibbs and Witney review the spy thingy THE AMATEUR, the Hitchcockian DROP, the Viola Davis Die Hard riff G20, the warfare movie WARFARE, the Christian animated film THE KING OF KINGS, and the music doc ONE TO ONE: JOHN AND YOKO!

It's an all-new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! redcircle.com/shows/critic...

Is A MINECRAFT MOVIE (gasp!) kind of okay?!

Is SCREAMBOAT (gasp!) kind of okay?!

@williambibbiani.bsky.social and @witneyseibold.bsky.social review these films and THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA and HELL OF A SUMMER on an all-new episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!

Friday the 13th

The Fast and the Furious

A fistful of dollars

The Omen

What are THE BEST KNOCKOFF MOVIES EVER?

Film critics @williambibbiani.bsky.social and @witneyseibold.bsky.social present their picks in an all-new IRON LIST podcast!

Only one of these four classic knockoffs made the list! Any idea which one...? redcircle.com/shows/critic...

And also, reviews of...

Night of the Zoopocalypse
Opus
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Queen of the Ring
My Dead Friend Zoe
The Parenting

It's an all-new, epic episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, with @williambibbiani.bsky.social and @witneyseibold.bsky.social! redcircle.com/shows/critic...

One podcast, TWELVE new film reviews!

This week, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold analyze...

Electric State
The Day the Earth Blew Up
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Black Bag
Mickey 17
Novocaine

Hang on, we don't have enough room in one post... redcircle.com/shows/critic...

Blame South Park for its short run.

You can, and very much should, buy our guest @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social's empowering, thought-provoking, queer horror short story collection INFINITY MATHING AT THE SHORE & OTHER DISTURBANCES wherever fine books are sold! 🏳️‍⚧️

Author M. Lopes Da Silva joins us to exhume Ralph Bakshi's forgotten animated HBO cyberpunk adult anthology series SPICY CITY!

Was this raunchy, violent, pro-sex work and awesomely queer 1997 series... CANCELED TOO SOON?

Let's find out!

redcircle.com/shows/critic...

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It's a special episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review all 15 of this year's Oscar-nominated short films!

Plus: Their picks for who will - and who SHOULD - win this year's Academy Awards! redcircle.com/shows/critic...

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We've got new movie reviews for CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD, THE MONKEY, THE GORGE, BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY, THE DEAD THING and CLEANER!

Film critics @williambibbiani.bsky.social and @witneyseibold.bsky.social are back with a brand CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! redcircle.com/shows/critic...

Only the Best | The Best Picture Nominees of 1957! | The Critically Acclaimed Network Get more from The Critically Acclaimed Network on Patreon

Which film SHOULD have won Best Picture at the 30th Academy Awards...?

Film critics @williambibbiani.bsky.social and @witneyseibold.bsky.social explore the nominees PEYTON PLACE, SAYONARA, 12 ANGRY MEN, WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION and THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI in our podcast, ONLY THE BEST!

Thank you @criticacclaim.bsky.social for having me on your podcast! It was a total blast and one of my favorites on the network!

Good call!

YouTube video by Sparks - Topic The Oblongs

And if you want to hear the original, rejected theme song to THE OBLONGS - by Sparks! - it's right here, and it shreds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X2Y...

Brain Spotting - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark Failing writer Julie is suddenly struck with inspiration when her fantasy creations leap off the page and into her life. The price of her creativity comes at a high cost however when she discovers her visions are the result of a brain tumor. A dark comedy about what it means to pursue a dream.

Chelsea Spirito's new film BRAIN SPOTTING is crowdfunding RIGHT NOW!

We invite you to contribute to the project at Seed and Spark!

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Will Ferrell and Jean Smart starred in an animated sitcom about a mutated family living in a landfill beneath their capitalist oppressors!

Was THE OBLONGS... Canceled Too Soon?

Filmmaker Chelsea Spirito joins William Bibbiani & Witney Seibold to make the final call!

redcircle.com/shows/critic...

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What are the BEST MOVIES OF THE CENTURY SO FAR?

Film critics @williambibbiani.bsky.social and @witneyseibold.bsky.social have OPINIONS on a special bonus episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! redcircle.com/shows/critic...

Time stamps from this episode of Critically Acclaimed. Star Trek: Section 31 review starts at 1:45 and ends at 54:23

Sirs, that is an entire episode of ALL OUR YESTERDAYS

All Our Yesterdays | "Aquiel" (Star Trek: TNG) | The Critically Acclaimed Network Get more from The Critically Acclaimed Network on Patreon

What do you get when you combine STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, John Carpenter's THE THING and Otto Preminger's LAURA?

If you guessed "something good," you'd be wrong!

@witneyseibold.bsky.social and @williambibbiani.bsky.social review the TNG episode AQUIEL in an all-new Patreon exclusive!