Tubi or Not Tubi
So you're sitting on your couch... Or in your bed... Or on the subway during a 3-hour commute to a generic ceremony that vaguely involves a series of bizarre acquaintances... And you need something to stream. You stumble across the free film streaming app named Tubi. You marvel at the variety of quality films, many of which no one has encountered before. You click a title that interests you based on the description. A dog vomits within the first ten minutes... in live-action. We made a podcast to experience that so you don't have to. Join Ceci and Rafiq as they traverse the inner depths of Tubi's vast film library to view, analyze, and evaluate your next favorite (or least favorite) works of cinema.
Episodes
In this fabulously blood-spattered episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we sashay our way through Slay, the 2024 film written and directed by Jem Garrard.
Tubi has an excellent track record when it comes to delivering stories from the voices who most want to tell them, and this one is another feather in the cap!
CW: This podcast episode contains mild discussion/description of sexual assault. The film itself is NOT mild in its depiction, however.
In this looming, brooding episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we take a haunting journey into the 2017 film, The Lullaby, directed by Darrell Roodt.
Pregnancy has an extremely varied and convoluded cinematic history and presence, and we've had our share of pregnant horrors on the podcast before: but the t...
In this ever-present, culturally prescient episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we evaluate mob mentality in the 1956 film, Storm Center, written and directed by Daniel Taradash and starring Bette Davis.
Tubi has a pesky habit of preseving fascinating cinematic works of the past, and on this show, Bette Davis always draws a crowd. But does the message of Storm Center hold up to this day? Does the gut punch taste the same? Stick around and ...
In this historical, touchingly innocent episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we bend as no one has bent before with the 2007 film, Ballet Shoes, directed by Sandra Goldbacher and starring Emma Watson.
One of the frequent coming-of-age genres that can be found in abundance on Tubi is "Orphan Girls Learn Ballet." What happens when Emma Watson is said orphan girl? Is it as predictable a result as one would imagine?
In this new-agey, aimless episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we wander around the desert pretending we're cute in the 2019 film, Tyger Tyger, directed by Kerry Mondragón and starring Dylan Sprouse.
What happens when one accidentally strays from the Official Unofficial Sprouse Twins Ritualisitic At Least Once A Year Ceremony?
Tyger Tyger. That's what happens. This movie happened to us.
In this investigatively journalistic episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we take a hard long look at the 2006 film, Inspector Mom, directed by Brad Keller.
Often times one comes across a film description on Tubi that is irresistable to resist. In this case there is both a soccer mom and a murder described as "brutal" all in one package... So of course it warranted investigation!
For our season 6 premiere, we are returning to, unveiling, and dissecting the hidden wonders of a film that will forever shake our mental foundations for all time.
That film is the 1995 cinematic force known as The Passion of Darkly Noon, written and directed by Phillip Ridley... starring Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, and Viggo Mortensen.
This episode is a deepm dive, and that is a severe understatement, so it is highly reccommended...
In celebration of our fifth anniversary, Tubi or Not Tubi will be reviewing Tár, written and directed by Todd Field and starring Cate Blanchett.
When we consider the state of society in 2025, this film becomes even more prescient as a thesis on power, privelege, and cultural ignorance as predicated by the value systems of the fine art insititutional structures we often overlook.
Tár is a film so journalistically prescient that we a...
In this rapid-fire, spookalicious episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we tackle the listener-suggested wonder that is the 2023 film, Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, written, directed, and starring Andrew Bowser.
Tubi is a powerful entity, that happily absorbs many a passion project: and this one is no exception. But does that passion show on the screen? Let's investigate!
In this hardcore, blazing episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we lazily lounge at the honky tonk that characterizes the 1977 film, Punk Rock, directed by Carter Stevens.
Tubi has an interesting track record when it comes to radical radicalism, in fact it is so interesting that said record is impossible to track. What even is Punk Rock? It's still a mystery.
In this brisk, hardened episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we mosey on down into the 2024 Tubi Original film, The Thicket, directed by Elliott Lester and starring Peter Dinklage.
When one examines the state of cinema in modern times, they cannot avoid the inevitability of Tubi. How come? Tubi is where passion projects go to be their unapologetic selves, and this film is no exception. But will that passion rub off on us?
CW: Ableist Tomfoolery
In this edgy, crime-ridden episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we plan to rob as many stores as possible in the 2015 film, Stealing Sunrise, written and directed by Michael Jason Allen.
Some heists are not meant to happen, and others are. Other times heists are too sad. Tubi heists are often strange. But are they dangerous and thrilling? Sometimes. How does one steal sunrise anyways.
In this forward-looking, frightful epsiode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we are catching a glimpse of potential terrors in the 2021 film, Future Fear, directed by Ken May.
Tubi often loves to surpise us these days. It did it again here, to widely varying effectiveness. But will it be enough to make us fear for our future? Who knows.
Are we kicking off the year with a round of Tubi Twofers? Yes...
Okay, okay hear me out. Tubi started being utterly relentless in its assault on the senses and frankly we needed a chance to trauma dump a little bit. You know.
For our health.
Anyways! It's Tubi Twofers! Buyer Beware!
In this Christmasy Christman Christmas of a Christmas Holiday Episode, we Christmas the Christmas all over the Christmas with the 1999 Christmas film, Christmas Classics Series: O'Christmas Tree, directed by Bert Ring and starring Ed Asner.
A Tubi Christmas is often a twister that not only rivals but TOWERS OVER the Hallmark traditions. It is the truth. It simply is. No god-fearing member of the New York Times Cultural Critics Ca...
In this disaster-fueled, taciturn episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we're comtemplating the strange futures proposed by the 2015 film, Night Cries, written and directed by Andrew Cymek.
The Tubi library is no stranger to the fusion of sci-fi and drama, and said needle is a difficult one to thread... Will the cries in the night time do it?
Oh my great golly goodness it's a Turkey Surprise!
Yes, it's another edition of Tubi Twofers, the minigame in which we unlock the hidden knowledge we do not wish to remember for the elusive Quizmaster Pete... Who will snatch victory this time? Listen to find out!
In this mechanical, abandoned episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we are entering the darkest depths of unknown terrors in the 2009 film, Pandorum, directed by Christian Alvert and starring Dennis Quaid.
2009 is the year before 2010, and when it comes to the science fiction of that time everything seemes to feel like eating at Applebees. So of course one must wonder what happens when you eat Applebees at Tubi.
That made no sense. I'm...
In this flighty, whistful episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we once again stop the motion of our emotions for 2006 film, Blood Tea and Red String, written and directed by Christiane Cegavske.
Tubi is once again gracing us with fantastical fantasy stop motion! Will it strike at our hearts? Will our heart be cut out off screen somehow? I do not know! Let's find out!
In this memeified, reclining episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we finally get the Tubitunity to witness the 2019 cult classic, Killer Sofa, written and directed by Bernie Rao.
Sofas are genuinely dangerous. Especially those heavy ones that have the recliner with all those bars on the inside that are impossible to carry comfortably. So of course Tubi will understand our plight into the true terror of this grave object! Of course Tubi wi...
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