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Tubi or Not Tubi

Cecilia Dillon & Rafiq Taylor

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

tv & film film reviews

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01:03:41

Episode 149: Tubi Twofers, Seventeenth Edition

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/12/03

This week on Tubi or not Tubi... we pretend as if a week was not skipped and also pretend that Abulele was not expected to arrive at Thanksgiving because we have SOME MORE TWOFERS to hold you all over while we organize our boats as we ride the river of life!

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01:28:15

Episode 148: Vampire Bats

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/11/12

In this blood-suckling, eduactionally grandstanding episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we find ourselves agitating the wrong placental mammals in Vampire Bats, the 2005 film directed by Eric Bross and starring Lucy Lawless. Tubi tends to specialize in providing the genre of animal attack horror, and films like this fall squarely into that special category. What strange details will this one conjure, we wonder?

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01:38:43

Epsiode 147: All Hallows' Eve

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/10/29

BOO! In this SPOOKTACULAR Halloween Special of Tubi or Not Tubi, we conduct a meticulous deep dive of a personal podcast fave: 2016's All Hallows' Eve starring the Meryl Streep of Tubi herself: Lexi Giovagnoli! Join us as we conduct a deep dissection into the incomparable, dangerously imaginative entity unofficially known as: The Lexi Giovagnoli Cinematic Universe.

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01:16:52

Episode 146: The Ruby Ring

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/10/15

In this hopelessly romantic, life-threatening episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we take an ill-informed journey into the past for The Ruby Ring, the 1997 film directed by Harley Cokeliss. Coming-of-age time-travel adventures come in many shapes, sizes and creeds. However, there is always the question of convention: will this flick follow them too closely, or break them too harshly? Only Tubi can tell...

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01:06:25

Episode 145: Ghost Goggles

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/10/01

In this coma-induced vision of a Tubi or Not Tubi episode. We chastise a widow for accepting booty calls in Ghost Goggles, the 2016 film directed by Creep Creepersin. Tubi has such a deep well of wild children on wacky adventures, and almost every time there are unexpected elements... It is safe to assume this film is no different, and in being no different, it is ALWAYS different!

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01:14:27

Episode 144: Tubi Woofers!

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/09/17

Oh, were you waiting for The Wait? Well, The Wait will have to Wait for reasons worth Waiting about. If you're lucky, you may be waiting forever! There totally most definitely isn't a specific reason related to human error and oppresive technological ecosystems that you shall Wait for The Wait. Besides, it's Quizmaster Pete's birthday! We must take the time to celebrate by doing a fun little twist on our Tubi Twofer Traditions!

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01:13:13

Episode 143: Black Bear

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/09/04

In this foggy, maple-flavored episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we have an argument at the dinner table that we'll be inevitably whining to our therapist about in Black Bear, the 2020 film written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine, and starring Aubrey Plaza. Tubi has a plethora of specific films designed to with specific inspirations, but what happens when Tubi delivers it on a plate of Aubrey Plaza?

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01:06:52

Episode 142: Tubi Twofers, Sixteenth Edition

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/08/21

This week on Tubi or Not Tubi... More Twofers again?! Listen, it's a crazy time of year and we have a lot of Tubi Trauma to get off our chest so take a listen while you wait for Aubrey Plaza okay?

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01:23:09

Episode 141: The Mummy an' the Armadillo

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/08/06

In this literary, amethyst episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we put on our berets and drink black coffee upon viewing The Mummy an' the Armadillo, the 2004 film written and directed by J. S. Cardone. On occasion the Tubi viewer comes across a particular piece with fierce, artful intentions. With a title like this, who knows what chaos may come?

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51:12

Episode 140: Tubi Twofers, Fifteenth Edition

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/07/23

It has been a hot second since we've had one of these, but let's roll with it! Once again, we conduct a battle of Tubi Recollection Wizardry. Who will come out on top this time?

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01:08:26

Episode 139: Slay

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/07/09

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!

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01:08:12

Episode 138: The Lullaby

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/06/26

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 thing is... It's different every single time. Good different? Who

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01:34:23

Episode 137: Storm Center

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/06/11

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 find out...

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01:19:33

Episode 136: Ballet Shoes

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/05/29

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?

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01:21:49

Episode 135: Tyger Tyger

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/05/14

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.

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01:15:32

Episode 134: Inspector Mom

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/04/30

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!

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02:27:48

Episode 133: The Passion of Darkly Noon

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/04/16

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 for the viewer to listen having seen - scratch that, having

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51:15

Episode 132: Tár

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/04/02

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 are publishing our review of Tár on April 1st, a day of festive note

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01:39:35

Episode 131: Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of...

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/03/20

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!

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01:07:22

Episode 130: Punk Rock

Tubi or Not Tubi ·

2025/03/05

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.

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