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They run, they jump, they swim and play! They row and go on trips! But the thing that lasts forever... are our dear 98TH ANNUAL OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS!

Yes, Bibbs and Witney are back with their yearly look at all 15 of this year's Academy Awards nominees, for BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT, BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT and BEST ANIMATED SHORT!

It's a cavalcade of impressive - and brief! - motion pictures about hard-hitting social issues, dystopian and 19th century social taboos, love and death and also a bunch of donkeys!

Find out all about this year's nominees and impress all your friends who watch the Oscars, but don't watch the shorts!

Best Documentary Shorts - 11:33

Best Live-Action Shorts - 56:15

Best Animated Shorts - 1:35:20 

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William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Emerald Fennell's weird new take on WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Gore Verbinski's anti-A.I. sci-fi comedy GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE, the animated basketball movie GOAT, the all-star Los Angeles crime drama CRIME 101, the cult phenomenon NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, a film where Juliette Lewis swaps bodies with a chair called BY DESIGN, and the sci-fi horror comedy COLD STORAGE!

Wuthering Heights - 4:18

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die - 33:05

Goat - 47:45

Crime 101 - 59:55

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie - 1:09:35

By Design - 1:23:20

Cold Storage - 1:32:10 

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You're stuck in bed and the only streaming service you've got is the Criterion Channel! What do you do? What do you do?

Bibbs and Witney are answering YOUR questions on an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL, and in addition to that particular puzzler they're also talking about Danish cinema, Psychotronic movies, advice for writing criticism, and when it's okay to talk during a movie!

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Bibbs and/or Witney review Sam Raimi's new horror-thriller SEND HELP, the execrable new "documentary" MELANIA, the indie horror video game adaptation IRON LUNG, the long-dreaded trilogy-capper THE STRANGERS - CHAPTER 3, the supernatural horror movie WHISTLE, the Amazon buddy action flick THE WRECKING CREW, the Amazon book commercial RELATIONSHIP GOALS, the Kevin James rom-com SOLO MIO, the queer BDSM biker romance PILLION, and the Jason Statham-y Jason Statham movie SHELTER!

Send Help - 4:43

Melania - 23:18

Iron Lung - 55:55

The Strangers - Chapter 3 - 1:14:25

Whistle - 1:27:17

The Wrecking Crew - 1:36:20

Relationship Goals - 1:50:20

Solo Mio - 1:58:30

Pillion - 2:04:44

Shelter - 2:12:44

Review Round-Up - 2:18:18 

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Welcome back to THE ALL-NIGHTER, the very special, once in a blue moon podcast where Bibbs and Witney curate and schedule an all-night movie marathon for life's biggest occasions!

Our HALLOWEEN ALL-NIGHTER episode was one of our most popular new ideas of 2025, so we're back with all-new ideas for movie marathons, this time for VALENTINE'S DAY! We've got classic rom-coms, bizarre animated shorts and hygiene videos, forgotten cult flicks, even a blockbuster action movie!

If you have requests for other important events/holidays/occasions that could use an ALL-NIGHTER, let us know in the comments. And be sure to email us your own all-night movie marathon ideas! We might read them on an upcoming episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL!

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Is YouTube the future of cinema? Are we too cavalier with our STAR TREK spoilers? What piece of movie memorabilia do Bibbs and Witney want most? Which truly obscure cult movies have yet to be discovered? What does Gibbs really think about Paul W.S. Anderson movies? And is Jay Sherman, aka THE CRITIC, actually a good critic?

Bibbs and Witney are answering YOUR emails in an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL, and this one's a doozy! 

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Because YOU demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY EVER!

It's a nearly three-hour, audio-only podcast in which two film critics describe really cool-looking things that you can't see while they're talking! We may not have thought this through, but we're going to try to make it work, and tell you about some truly gorgeous motion pictures in the process!

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Bibbs and Witney run down the 98th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS nominations, then get to reviewing the pro-dystopia sci-fi film MERCY, the soulful post-apocalyptic zombie movie 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, the Matt Damon/Ben Affleck cop movie THE RIP, the sex-with-vacuum-cleaners movie A USEFUL GHOST, the multigenerational puzzle box SOUND OF FALLING, and the weepy falconry drama H IS FOR HAWK!

The 98th Annual Oscars - 5:30 

Mercy - 34:11 

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - 51:45 

The Rip - 1:05:55 

A Useful Ghost - 1:17:55 

Sound of Falling - 1:25:03 

H is for Hawk - 1:32:43 

Review Round-Up - 1:41:40

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Bibbs and Witney review the Oscar hopeful MARTY SUPREME, the killer chimpanzee movie PRIMATE, the not-so-killer snake movie ANACONDA, the colonial musical THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, Jim Jarmusch's FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, the post-apocalyptic thriller GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION, Gus Van Sant's 1970s thriller DEAD MAN'S WIRE, the creepy bullying film THE PLAGUE, the Palestinian generational drama ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU, and the high-concept theater adaptation THE DUTCHMAN!

Marty Supreme - 8:39

Primate - 28:07

Anaconda - 43:20

The Testament of Ann Lee - 1:00:45

Song Sung Blue - 1:13:05

Father Mother Sister Brother - 1:23:00

Greenland 2: Migration - 1:31:23

Dead Man's Wire - 1:41:35

The Plague - 1:51:25

All That's Left of You - 2:02:45

The Dutchman - 2:08:45

Review Round-Up - 2:16:20

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Bibbs and Witney answer YOUR letters and emails in an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL!

This time, we're talking about our favorite real-life road trips, the unsung filmography of animation legend Don Bluth, movies we may have defended a little too much, and offering backup to a listener's grandmother, who really, really, really wants her grandson to watch THE TOWERING INFERNO!

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