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.
In this sweltering, scandalous episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we watch the chaos wrought in Queen Bee, the 1955 film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall and starring Joan Crawford. Tubi is a wonderful and generous archive, that has a range of options that span all of time. What a delight it is to gaze toward the past as we have done in this episode...
In this patriotic, cherry tree of a Tubi or Not Tubi episode, we boil some tar and pluck some pheasants for Rise & Fight: The Battle of Hobkirk's Hill, the 2025 film written and directed by Christopher Forbes. This episode is a special treat, because it actively enabled Rafiq to elaborate fully on the reason why he has an irrational obsession with the "hypereducational-but-still-super-confusing-indie-US-war-reenactment-or-something" genre.
In this nondescript, dreary episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we stare into the vague void of barely a memory in Dimland, the 2021 film written and directed by Peter Collins Campbell. Tubi has this habit of shocking the eyes who witness it in ways that force internalizatuon. I will not elaborate. Not in this description.
This week on Tubi or Not Tubi , we bring you a truly delightful conversation with Niclas Larsson, the director of Mother, Couch ! It is often a wonderful experience to pick the brain of a creator regarding their creation, and it is a privilege to connect with the mind behind Mother, Couch . Join us as we take a deeper dive into the finer tapestries of freaky familial cosmic furniture.
In this effervescent, timely* episode of Tubi or Not Tubi: we reflect on the meaning of life as well as life's many meanings in the halls of Moon Manor, the 2022 film directed by Machete Bang Bang & Erin Granat. Our attention was captured by a totally cool poster, but will the film follow through? Tune in to find out! *Editor's Note: Happy Pride. I'm allowed to be late on this one, I'm gay.
A bunch of graduations happend and we are academic people so this week it's 18th edition of Tubi Twofers! A game where we competitively educate each other on some of the stones and poisons found in the deep library of this mysterious app...
In this honky-dory, wildly wacky episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we log flume directly into a crowd containing Hundreds of Beavers, the 2022 film directed by Mike Cheslik. On occasion, pit stops are taken at the cult classic gas station on this journey. However, one must wonder: is this a true oasis or a trick of the starved mind?
In this very southern, very Christian episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we kick off the season at a raunchy party with Terri Joe: Missionary in Miami, the 2026 Tubi Original film directed by Dale S. Lewis. Starting off with a Tubi Original is one of the more fitting ways to kick off the season, but will the film behave or betray?
This year has been one of those years that operates on such a hectic energy that our executives granted us the privelege of celebrating yet another year with libations. Join us as we reminice on what we've witnessed like your local respected stolen honor war vets!
In this well-traveled, informational episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we find ourselves far from home in The Crucifixion, the 2017 film directed by Xavier Gens. Sometimes you'll find a film Lionsgate picked up roaming the halls of Tubi. Surely that's a sign of normalcy... Right?
In this turbulent, weathered episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we desperately stuggle to find familial closure in Mother, Couch!, the 2023 film written and directed by Niclas Larsson. Things get heated in the recording room as Tubi twists our sensibilities and plot perception as our hosts litigate the meaning or lack therof of this surrealist festival darling...
In this culturally relevant, vaguely confusing episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we open up a Smash Bros. envelope containing an invite to the Murder at the Murder Mystery Party, the 2023 Tubi Orginal film directed by Jake Helgren. The murder mystery genre is one of the least mysterious genres to ever genre. Of course, one must wonder to what degree the app known as Tubi can change that perception...
CW: Discussion of concentration camps, colonialism, and their related horrors. In this bleak, sobering episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we deeply immerse ourselves in the dreaded reality of Breathing In, the 2023 film written and directed by Jaco Bouwer. The history of the world is so big, and Tubi aspires to be somehow even larger. When it comes to project as targeted as this one: sometimes the all-too-fantastic is also all-too-real.
In this springy, whistful episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we throw ourselves into a bloody interpretation of a fairytale classic: Cinderella's Revenge, the 2024 film directed by Andy Edwards. You can always find some kind of Tubi Twist on a fairytale. That said, one must wonder: how will Cinderella get her revenge? What does Tubi have to say on the matter?
In this soaring, searing episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we casually have a difficult time expressing ourselves to our alleged best friend while taking Synchronic, the 2019 film directed by Justin Benson and starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. The movies that Tubi provides for us somehow never fail to be strange. Even the modern ones with modern casts that have allegedly been seen by many people tend to confound.
In this highly anticipated, caffinated episode of Tubi or Not Tubi, we protect the ancients known as Abulele, the 2015 film written and directed by Jonathan Geva. The circumstances and mentality behind the story this film tells fascinates on many fronts, especially for being Yet Another Tubi E.T...
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!
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?
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.
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...
