It’s one of the most notorious musicals in movie history, so why is the 1980s pop embarrassment XANADU the perfect double feature with Kenji Mizoguchi’s brilliant and celebrated fantasy allegory for wartime avarice, UGETSU…? You’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out.

Also, we’re reviewing all of the Oscar-nominated short films this week! Hurray!

Welcome back to Critically Acclaimed, where highbrow and lowbrow collide! Every week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review a BAD movie of YOUR choice and pair it with a GREAT movie of THEIR choice, to make an awesome and enlightening double feature. They also review new movies, answer your letters and more!

Email us at criticallyacclaimedfans(at)gmail.com, and follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold.

Schedule:

1:34 - Introductions

5:54 - The Cloverfield Paradox

23:49 - Fifty Shades Freed

38:56 - Peter Rabbit

48:55 - Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

1:12:29 - Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts

1:26:35 - Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

1:42:36 - Xanadu

2:10:19 - Ugetsu

2:33:42 - Letters Column: European World War II Movies, Should Pixar Movies Be Re-Animated?