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Donald Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion discover the absolute, undeniable, and scientifically proven greatest performance in your favorite actor's esteemed career via a direct-elimination bracket, usually with a kind lil' guest.
Don & Pat discuss Brian De Palma's earliest works on this week's The Academy Academy! Is Greetings a counter-cultural barn burner? Is Ladybugs Rodney Dangerfield's best film? Should Post Malone have made a theme song for Eddington? Does Hi, Mom! still shock and push boundaries? Tune in and find out!
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Don & Pat continue to plumb the depths of Cinema Speculation as they discuss Sisters on this week's The Academy Academy. Discover what makes Bernard Herrmann furious! Find out which heavy metal musician is most comparable to Brian De Palma! Determine what family friendly feature was felled by The Untouchables at the box office and more!
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Is having the middle name "Eroica" a telltale sign your parents are emotionally closed-off intellectuals? Does Bill Maher think he's Warren Beatty when he's really Jack Warden? Do men love getting into jams? Are jams the juice?!
All this and more is discussed on this week's The Academy Academy!
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It's a Feiffer Double Feature, folks!
Should Hollywood let Karl Ove Knausgård direct a feature film? Are shorts for quitters? Is there an intern feeding New York Times opinion columnists cold Campbell's Soup as they lie dormant?
All this and more will be answered on this week's The Academy Academy!
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What happens when a seemingly strait-laced Esquire Magazine Columnist-type guy smokes exactly one joint and watches a Fellini movie? Is America the original Megalopolis? And where did you get that Francis Ford Coppola's Jack Challenge Coin?!
Don & Pat discuss Arthur Penn's Mickey One and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People on this week's The Academy Academy!
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We're actually finally back for real this time, folks!
Don & Pat catch up and list some films they've watched during the pod's absence. Japanese cinema, David Simon joints, blockbusters- all genres are covered on this week's The Academy Academy!
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This is an episode, ostensibly a Patrick's birthday episode, that was recorded way way back in April. Apologies for the hiatus. Please enjoy a pod filled with soda intrigue, Eric Roberts fantasy casting, and thumb shenanigans.
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It's the antiestablishment post-sixties auteurs vs the cinema brats! Cauldrons of creativity! Laps of luxury! Was Dennis Hopper the next Orson Welles? Which famous director was beaten up by members of the Hell's Angels MC? Did you get to be Vinnie Barbarino when you played Welcome Back, Kotter on the playground?
All this and more will be assessed and addressed as Don and Pat discuss Easy Rider and MAS*H on this week's The Academy Academy!
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It's our final episode of Don and Pat's miniseries within a miniseries delving into he exploitation world of Kevin Thomas! Does Tubi have the best commercials? Does a person make a hole in the earth shaped like themselves when they fall from an incredibly high distance? Is there any any figure in Hollywood more likeable than Paul Bartel? Probably not!
The fundraising campaign for Don's Short Film Long Time, No See is still underway!
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Lusty Austrian Wives! Giant Sewer Gators! Shari Eubank! Robert Forster! These movies have everything!! Don & Patrick assess Kevin Thomas' assessment of Supervixens and Alligator on this week's The Academy Academy!
The fundraising campaign for Don's Short Film Long Time, No See is still underway!
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It's b-b-b-bonus episode, folks! We're talking films that influenced Don's latest and greatest short film: Long Time, No See. We discuss the three levels of masculine conversation, the off-kilter nature of small town America populated with Canadians, and of course, Broheim.
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Don & Pat are deep-diving into the world of Kevin Thomas! What is the value of film criticism? Does smoking a pipe and wearing a bowtie immediately make you a weirdo? Do slasher films bum your hosts out because those young crazy kids had they're entire lives in front of them and they're already getting the Michael Myers treatment? All this and more will be discussed on this week's The Academy Academy!
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It's our Top 10 Films released (for the most part!) in 2024! Did Danny Collins 2 make the cut? Were we brutal on The Brutalist? Did Anora have us talkin' at the agora? Tune in to find out! There are not a lot of words that rhyme with Anora.
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The Movieheads are back, and everything from glaring cinematic gaps to obscure oddities only available on Eastern European youtube equivalents are discussed on this week's The Academy Academy as Don, Pat, and Jesse provide their Top 10 Cinematic Discoveries of 2024.
Did Free Guy make it on to one of our lists? Does war undumb-dumbify us all? Is there any gift more heartwarming than a liter of soda, a pizza, and a copy of Lethal Weapon on VHS? Tune in to find out!
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We're entering the Bufordverse, folks! We're talking Point Blank and Walking Tall on this week's The Academy Academy. Is Point Blank an overrated feature? Is the Monkees movie underrated? Who is Lloyd Bochner's cool son?! All these questions and more are answered. Enjoy!!
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Is Robert Duvall the best Parker? Is Joe Don Baker the best hang? Does this movie contain the sweatiest middle-aged mafiosos imaginable? Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Man, Clyde Barrow sure is going through some stuff! Are Robert Benton and David Newman the original Willie & Phil? Who coined the term "pulling a Dernsey"? And, of course, why oh why is there a paucity of paunchy middle-aged semi-balding tough character actors in Modern Hollywood?! All this and more is discussed on this week's riveting The Academy Academy!
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Is Morgoth bae? Would you like to have a beer with The Burning Bush? Do you support Big Wiggle? All these questions and more are answered as Patrick "Musty Brain" Gremillion and his special guests Jack Seavor "The Pepperonis Are Rubies" McDonald and "Elena "The Lead Goob aka Mayo" Martinez wax poetic about Willem Dafoe on this week's The Academy Academy. Heads up: This ep was recorded back in August, so there may be a rogue discrepancy here or there. Enjoy... and get me a picture of that hot dog!
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Sam Peckinpah as a Na'vi! Manic Pixie Slim Pickens! Dzundza mispronunciations! This podcast has it all! Don & Pat discuss Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen's The Getaway on this week's The Academy Academy. Enjoy!
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Country Musician. Actor. Rhodes Scholar. He was Whistler in Blade and he wrote Me and Bobby McGee. We're covering the dearly departed Kris Kristofferson, folks. We do a brief overview of his fascinating life, dive deep into the Panoply of Western Movie Character Actor Guys that is Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and kinda regret that we chose to watch Semi-Tough. Tune in and find out who James Coburn considered to be "The most evil m&@!cker to work in this business" on this week's The Academy Academy! I don't think Coburn is talking the ice cream business, folks...
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It's Never Leave The House Week, folks! Don & Pat covering Macon County Line and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on this addition of The Academy Academy. This ep has everything: Geoffrey Lewis as Hemp(Hamp?), musings about the Jokerfication of America's youth, and of course, that funky dude just trying to find himself: Leatherface. Enjoy!
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Don and Pat take a break from the hustle and bustle of Roku City to go on a Cool and Definitely Not Scary canoeing trip on this week’s The Academy Academy!
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Don & Pat dive delve into violent waters on this week's The Academy Academy as we discuss Michael Winner's Death Wish and Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. If you enjoy films directed by son-of-a-bitch bon vivants and movies that interrogate the inextricability of violence from human nature, then this is the pod for you!
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Don & Pat tackle the Dirty Harry portion of Cinema on this week's The Academy Academy. Do you miss old school DVD special features? Do you think Unforgiven and Men At Work is the perfect double feature? Do you think Emory Cohen has a shot at becoming the next Paul Walter Hauser? Do you want to learn about the life and times of Don Siegel, the guy who was NEARLY 60 when he directed Dirty Harry and got his start working on montages for films like THE ROARING TWENTIES and CASABLANCA?! This is some must-listen pod material, folks!
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It's another extra credit ep, folks! One of the movies discussed is a goodie, while the other is a... confusie. We discuss Cool Cops, Dad Cops, Crazy Uncle Cops, Lunchpail Cinema, and all things Sweaty Troubling Men on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Does Bullitt contain the most popular vehicle in all of cinema? Does Frank Bullitt play into liberal cop fantasies the way Dirty Harry plays into conservative ones? Would Steve McQueen have made Sorcerer a bonafide box-office success? Pat & Don discuss all this and more on this week's episode of The Academy Academy!
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Did you bragbout brag about watching R-rated films to gain social cache on the playground? Is your life riddled with moments worth of a John Cheever short story? Is Bruce Glover your go-to goon? If you answered yes to any of these questions, look no further: this pod is for you! Don & Pat discuss Wendell James Franklin's The Bus Is Coming and Robert Hartford-Davis' Black Gunn on this week's The Academy Academy. Enjoy!
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Don & Pat use Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation as a framework to discuss the most provocative features of a filmic era they find endlessly fascinating, beginning with Joe and Where's Poppa. Is this button-pushing double feature still relevant today, or merely a mildly concerning curio? What kind of movie uses "The Tush Scene Alone Is Worth the Price of Admission" as its poster logline and which one of these films grossed over $18,000,000 on a $100,000 budget? Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Don & Pat triumphantly return from their brief hiatus with a banger of an ep, folks! We're concluding our Schlesinger detour with the airport thriller adaptation classic Marathon Man and the cinematic Spruce Goose known as Honky Tonk Freeway. Are you down for a William Devane double feature? Do you think Tubi is the streaming equivalent of a video rental store? What is the true price of watching an elephant water ski? Tune in and find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
Who knows! Don & Pat don't as they cover The Day of the Locust on this week's The Academy Academy!
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The Academy Academy covering another feel-bad film from the twisted mind of John Schlesinger, folks! Can you recognize the rot around you, or are you one amongst the stampeding horde? Do you ever want to see a movie in a crowded theater just to see the muted and uncomfortable reaction said film would elicit from the audience? If Conrad L. Hall's sumptuous cinematography worth the watch if it's only filming odious people performing odious acts?
Who knows! Don & Pat don't as they cover The Day of the Locust on this week's The Academy Academy!
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We continue our hiatus from the works of Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry to discuss another director of the late sixties and seventies who has unfortunately receded from the cultural limelight: John Schlesinger! We discuss the British director's dual upper-crust/outsider origins, the other actors who were up for the role of Joe Buck alongside Jon Voight, and how a combination of grit, genius, and serendipity led to the creation of the only X-Rated film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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We're continuing our break from the world of Jonze with a deep dive into a key, yet oft-forgotten, seventies director: Paul Mazursky! Don & Pat do a deep dive into his oeuvre, warts and all. Does Blume in Love feature the most wrongheaded third-act misfire in cinema history? Is Bill Conti's score for An Unmarried Woman his best? Is Michael Ontkean's haircut in Willie & Phil the most insane hairdo we've witnessed in a film we've watched for the pod? Tune in to find out!
TW: Sexual Assault factors into one of these films in a way that is pretty much impossible to avoid. The convo surrounding this subject starts around 38:40 and ends at 48:30 if you wish to skip said convo!
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What are your three desert island foods? Would you eat hip health food at The Source? Do you know how to accurately determine a good piece of fruit? Do we all deserve a cool chainsmoking therapist? Would you purchase a French Connection 2-era Popeye Doyle Funkopop? Don & Pat are taking a break from Jonze and Gondry to discuss the late and great Donald Sutherland on this week's The Academy Academy. Enjoy!
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Don and Pat tackle Modern Romance and Terms of Endearment on this week's episode of The Academy Academy! Is it possible to make quaaludes look uncool? Shall the shame boys once again sing the song of MacGruber? Do your two favorite ding-dongs provide some light analysis of Must-See TV?! Download this pod and find out!!
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We have to go back to the Baywatch :(
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We're getting back on schedule with another Academy Academy Classic. Enjoy!
Our first post-Meryl episode! Your favorite Cosmé McMoon appreciators are taking a break from taking a deep dive into an actor's oeuvre by taking a deep dive into the oeuvre of a director who likes to take deep dives! For the next 4 episodes... we're discussing James Cameron!! We talk about a Bond villain-esque producer best described as the bastard son of Robert Evans without any of the classiness of Robert Evans. There's a tangent about the November Rain music video. There's another tangent about the absurdity of Chris O'Dowd playing a traffic cop in Bridesmaids. And, of course, we discuss Piranha II: The Spawning and The Terminator- grunions and all.
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Due to busy schedules and general life things, the pod will be releasing classic eps until June 25th. Enjoy this classic ep in the meantime!
Which Al Pacino character did a young Don dress up as for Halloween? Would Rocket Raccoon side with Neil McCauley or Lt. Vincent Hanna? Is Justin Theroux too hot to portray someone with a job that doesn't involve just being a dang hunk? Quit feeling stinky, folks- these questions and more will be answered on this week's The Academy Academy, featuring Wild's ferociously funny Jessica Svendsgaard (@svendsgaard)! WARNING: Jessica has a cool pet bird whose chirping can occasionally be heard on the recording. It adds ambiance, imo.
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Does your favorite Friends episode involve a mass grave under the bed? Has Jim Carrey experienced the most sanity-eroding conditions on set of any actor? Is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius?! Tune in as Don & Pat discuss Michel Gondry's magnum opus on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Don & Pat are back and have secured their Golden Globes nominations via blu-ray bribery on this week's ep of The Academy Academy! Is Spike Jonze an avant-garde genius or a postmodern prankster? Is Three Kings the best middlebrow film? Should Brian Cox have played Napoleon in the titular Ridley Scott feature? Tune in and find out!
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How much would you pay to see Orson Welles chase Wee Man through a crowded Tokyo Subway? Do you miss Pre-Internet virality i.e. the things you would discover from your older brother or the weird neighborhood kid? What is Johnny Knoxville's true name? Is Jackass puerile mishegoss, or a joyous celebration of life and the human spirit? Should Danger Ehren be a DLC fighter in the next Mortal Kombat game? Don & Pat cover Jackass: The Movie and its origins on this week's The Academy Academy. Enjoy and pray that Chris Pontius isn't hiding in your closet with an electric razor and a toy car!
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What is the value of teaching a mouse table manners? At what does introspection become self-indulgence? At what age do you stop being a wunderkind?
We're covering the beginnings of Michel Gondry on this week's episode of The Academy Academy! Relax, take a seat in a chair that looks like a paper mache bumblebee, and enjoy!
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Would you hang out in someone's mind with Gary Sinise and Charlie Sheen for an eternity? Is the best music video of all time an hommage to 70s Cop Cinema? What crucial role did Martin Scorsese play in the making of Video Days?
Don Horatio Saunderson and Patrick "The Dubious Non-Welsher" Gremillion enter the world of Spike Jonze on this week's episode of The Academy Academy. The Trickster Iconoclast, The Non-Stop Artist, The Savvy Entrepreneur... follow us on a journey into this filmmaker's mind! Just make sure to enter it before midnight.
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It's another birthday ep, which means another deep dive into the oeuvre of another fascinating arthouse filmmaker!
Urban Isolation, Rural Malaise, and the Nature of Evil are just a few of the subjects Nuri Bilge Ceylan tackles in his works. He luxuriates in the vast snow-covered topographies of Anatolia, and in the way relics of the past pepper Ceylan's cinematic landscapes, so too are his films pockmarked with moments of shock and awe that transcend the slow cinema scenery and erudite conversation. Challenge yourself! Watch these films and grow! And remember: every culture has a Cool Horse Guy. 🐎
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Apologies for the late release, but hooboy this is a fun ep! What's worse: a truly awful film, or a merely disappointing one? Should Tobey Maguire get the Thousand Face surgery? Is Jürgen Prochnow what you have at home when you ask mom for Udo Kier and mom says "honey, we have Udo Kier at home"?! Tune in as Don & Pat gush about all things Dafoe on this week's The Academy Academy!
We recorded this podcast at 6:30 AM.
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Would you pay $200 to see The Killer be a contestant on Love Is Blind? Do you pray to a gas station boiled egg? Is you favorite Guy Ritchie flick Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Aliens?! It's the finale to our Fincher miniseries, folks. We talk The Killer, and rate the Fincher filmography? Will Mank take it to the bank? And just how curious did we find Benjamin Button's case? Tune in to find out!
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Should Unforgiven be remade starring Will Forte as MacGruber? Should the next Equalizer take place in French Canada? Is Ultimate Sicko Pervert a compliment?! Don & Pat's Fuqua miniseries comes to a close on this week's Academy Academy, as we discuss the simple pleasures of the Equalizer franchise, attempt to sum up the director's career, and provide our rankings of the films that collectively comprise the Fuqua oeuvre.
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Does the story of Mank start in 1863? Does cynicism kill the artist within you? Are they selling Cool Ranch Dorito Soda at the Victorville Taco Bell?! We discuss William Randolph Hearst, Orson Welles, auteur theory, Raising Kane, The Kane Mutiny, people as brands, spiritual Big Boys, and so much more on this must-listen episode of The Academy Academy!
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We're covering Emancipation this week's episode of The Academy Academy. We attempt to keep this ep light on spoofs and goofs, although that doesn't stop us from hoping that the Chris Rock-directed remake of Another Round will star Adam Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, and Rob Schneider.
Enjoy!
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Two episodes in one day? Mamma Mia!
Don & Pat talk Gone Girl on this week's The Academy Academy. Is Ben Affleck's portrayal of Nick Dunne his greatest performance? Which pod co-host owns a poster of Author! Author!? Which film critic most resembles Bradley Whitford's character in Get Out?
Tune in to find out!
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Heinrich Treadway. Otto Bathurst. Nic Pizzolatto. Believers. Nihilists. Sizzler Cinema. Millennial Blogger Nicolas Cage. Choco Taco Nostalgia. Is a slurpee a food? Would you watch The Equalizer Down Under: Equalizer Vs. Wolf Creek? Remember Two Bits? Join Don & Pat on a particularly psychedelic episode of The Academy as they discuss the films(?) Infinite and The Guilty. I MUST FIND THE EGG!!!
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Are you ready to enter the darkest depths of deepest Sweden? Do you yearn to learn the secrets of Oscar prognostication? Is your favorite book Corduroy Jacket with Patches on the Elbows by Phil Potter? All these questions and more will be addressed on this week's twisted and Skarsgård-filled The Academy Academy!
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Don Saunderson and Patrick "Mid-Afternoon Beauregard" Gremillion are back for another deep dive into the oeuvre of Fuqua on this week's The Academy Academy. Would Robert McCall teach you how to balance your checkbook or stab you in the eye with a credit card? Would you put your hand in a mysterious dirt jar? Did 6 Underground do Manuel Garcia-Rulfo dirty? Tune in to find out!
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Don & Pat list their Top 10 Films on this week's The Academy Academy! How does one compare Past Lives to The Killer? Are you up to date on the latest Madame Web hot goss? Did Patrick accidentally call Ethan Hunt's best friend Luther Lucius and the Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson Matt Johnston? Tune in and find out!
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Would you earnestly rent Aaron Sorkin's Masterclass video? Would you freak out if Kirk Baxter walked onstage to Stone Cold Steve Austin's theme music? Did you hoot and holler when you heard Creep sung by a choir before watching Salt opening night?
If you answered yes to any of those questions... this pod is for you! Don & Pat cover The Social Network on this week's The Academy Academy!
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We're back on track, folks! Are you ready to disrupt the podcasting paradigm? Are your memories going commando? Should Christian Bale in character as his character in American Hustle have portrayed Russell Crowe's character in American Gangster? This is a fun ep and a return to form... enjoy!
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Apologies for the delay. This took forever to edit and the audio quality is Bad. Very Bad. You know what's not bad, though? The discoveries! They're great! This pod is like five one-armed punches to the goddamn dome! Enjoy!
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This is the final Academy Academy Classic! It's been a busy holiday, folks. This ep is a banger though. A very fun flash from the past.
Peculiarly punctuated titles! Father-son jeans jogging! Babies crying! Film reviews by.... Zagat??!?! This is the nutritional content slurry we all crave, folks! We have riffs flowing like white wine off this bad boy! Give this ep a listen as Don and Pat discuss Bobby Deerfield, ...And Justice for All, and Author! Author! on this week's The Academy Academy! #DadsRock #AdRockComeBack
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We're going to release another Academy Academy Classic and start fresh in 2024, folks. Happy Holidays and see you in the New Year!
You can take the Michael Douglas out of California... but can you take the California out of Michael Douglas? Can a perfectly thrown football save a life from sniper fire? Will we ever get those salt-of-the-earth Lava Factory jobs back in the good ol' US of A? Will Pat & Don make it to the Hat Convention this year? A certain character in Black Rain probably won't! Join the Semi-Sunday Morning Boyz as they discuss the ins and outs of Black Rain and The Last Boy Scout on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Due to busy holiday schedules, we will be releasing a classic ep of the pod instead of the previously scheduled Napoleon ep. We'll be back with a fresh episode next week, folks.
Happy Holidays!
Hark! A festive surprise for our fellow millennials! It's our inaugural Pat & Don Pick 'Em Up, where your intrepid hosts each get to choose a film to discuss for the pod- this time with a festive twist! Is stew the coffee of Minneapolis? Is banking the only important thing? Watch the capitalist chicanery unfold before your very eyes in a haze of wine as we discuss The Silent Partner and Jingle All the Way on this week's The Academy Academy!
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What if that fatherly figure in your office turned out to be the ultimate killing machine? What if that guy helping you train to be a volunteer fireman was secretly a whiz at setting booby traps? Don & Pat are discussing Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer on this week's The Academy Academy, an eminently entertaining film that dares to ask the question: "What if the guy from Man on Fire was just a cool dude and everything he did was cool?"
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Which cavalcade of cinematic luminaries was originally attached to direct The Curious Case of Benjamin Button before Fincher? What is the dastardly Jigsaw's favorite television commercial? Which middlebrow feature inspired a restaurant chain (hint: it wasn't Meet Joe Black)? All these questions and more are answered on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Is Mike Banning more unhinged than Bobby Lee Swagger? Should they team up? Was the screenplay for Olympus Has Fallen written on a napkin at a Joe's Crab Shack in 1983 (I swear I am asking this question in a complimentary fashion)? Is Gerard Butler the last of the great Beefcake B-Movie Actors? Tune in as we continue our high-octane ride down the Fuqua Freeway on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Does your secretary require a screaming booth? Is there more than one way to lose your life to a serial killer? Would you watch a Mission Impossible film directed by David Fincher? Would you watch an Intolerable Cruelty written by Donald Trump Jr.? Don & Pat have finally reached Zodiac on this week's The Academy Academy! Enjoy!
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Out of all the movies we've watched... whooda thought this'd be the one we'd return to??
Feelin' Warm? Feelin' Norm. G-Off Spencer. Hyperlink Cinema. Whiskey Before Pistol? Chekov's Bolito. Five Stages of Grief, but 3 Types of Sad. Is The Pest John Leguizamo's Sophie's Choice? Is Tenet a film about two buds having a good time? If you want any of this word salad to make sense, you better listen to this week's episode of The Academy Academy!
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Holy crap, Lois- shadowy government organizations are trying to take my life! Don & Pat are talking about Shooter on this week's The Academy Academy. Bob Lee Swagger. Nick Memphis. Ethiopian Archbishop Desmond Mutumbo. This is a movie filled with great names, insane conspiratorial setpieces, and exploding cans of Beef Stew. Is Shooter a waste of Dinty Moore or an exemplary example of New Dad Cinema? Tune in to find out!
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Would you like to know which hotshot Hollywood screenwriters are best friends? Do you yearn to hear the ballad of Dallas Howard? Was there almost an Alien with genitals? Does your toddler attend the same elite private school as the grandchild of Danny Collins?
All these questions and more will be answered as Don & Pat aka The Dancer & The Monologist discuss the few remaining Alien films untouched by the pod (until now!) on this week's Halloween episode of The Academy Academy!
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Don & Pat talk David Fincher's Panic Room on this week's The Academy Academy. We discuss at length the cinematographic setbacks, labor-intensive set recreations, and casting troubles that plagued this production. Is Raoul a total Waingro? Did David Fincher almost direct a superhero flick? And what's the deal with the apartment across the street that keeps blinking a freaking light at me?! Can't you see I'm trying to sleep? Yeesh.
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Crack open a bottle of Franzoni and relax, folks! Let Don & Pat guide you through a tour of historically accurate(?) Ye Olde England via the Antoine Fuqua-directed and Jerry Bruckheimer-produced King Arthur on this week's The Academy Academy!
Would you be able to withstand the torture of a Roundtable of Chris Actors? Would you prefer to watch Jean Reno as a medieval peasant crunchin' on tasty waves in Steampunk Serfer? Is Hadrian's Wall a Top 10 Wall? Tune in and find out! #NameOurBastards
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The Equalizer: The Antoine Fuqua Story has returned, and Don & Pat are talking Tears of the Sun on this week's The Academy Academy! 6 AM Empathy Alarms, unfortunate war paint, and director's cuts that don't make it to the Blu-Ray are just a fraction of the topics discussed on this week's ep- don't miss out!
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Is depression your Great Depression? Do you suffer from protagonitis? Has cubicle life got you feelin' blue? Fear not, we have a remedy: a healthy dose of sardonic voiceover! Don & Pat return to the sickly green David Fincher well to discuss Fight Club, the seminal work of late 90s Clintonian ennui, on this week's The Academy Academy!
His name was Denis Leary.
His name was Denis Leary!
HIS NAME WAS DENIS LEARY!!
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It's another finale, folks! Have the Goofus' defeated the Gallants? Did you see Troy with the boyz or Traffic with the buds? Scott Stuber and Magnet S. Johnson... which one of these is a real guy? All queries will be addressed and more as Don "Gizmo" Saunderson and Patrick "Brain Bank" Gremillion wrap up the Michael Bay miniseries and provide a (semi)definitive Bay film ranking on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Death Wish Coffee. Permanent Good Years. Married with Fathers. Would you commit an atrocity for the opportunity to run five Del Tacos? Do the French truly appreciate Dana Carvéy? Is David Costabile one of the pod's new favorite Guys? Pour yourself a cup of Dead Gun Coffee and get ready to feel dumb and bad, folks, because we're covering Pain & Gain and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi on this week's ep!
The Academy Academy ain't going away!
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We're finally here, folks. You're favorite Berengerian Candidates are back to discuss a Unified Theory of Scott, dole out awards, and definitively rank all 27 Ridley Scott films.
Should David be allowed to dream biggerest? Should they make a sequel to Black Rain starring a nearly 80-year-old Michael Douglas? Remember Josh Brolin in American Gangster?
Join Don & Pat, as they finish the journey and ascend to Elysium on this week's The Academy Academy!
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It's the penultimate Scott/Scott ep! Pat & Don critique and assess The Last Duel. Do we have an underrated banger on our hands? Was reciting Latin poetry the best way to entertain yourself in the 14th Century? Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy- a podcast approved by 5 out of 5 dads!
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We're taking a break from our various miniseries within miniseries to visit a side of town filled with riches and wonders... the Dafoe District! Is there a Secret Service agent more unhinged than Richard Chance? Do protagonist monikers get any better than Buck McGriff and Albaby Perkins? Is purifying violence the cheesy goop in a Paul Schrader Cheesy Gordita Crunch? This ep is a banger, folks. Slowly inch away from the guy only wearing underpants monologuing at you about Anselm and give this a listen instead!
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Don and Pat are back to usher in yet ANOTHER miniseries within a miniseries! We're taking a deeper dive into the oeuvre of Michael "Beverly Benjamin Button" Bay, and we've got some thoughts!
Would you work for a guy named Bill Z. Bubb? Could Optimus Prime navigate the United Kingdom's obfuscatory social welfare bureaucracy? Will Sean Bean bring the Sean Bean?! Forget about the latest episode of Jack Office.... listen to this week's The Academy Academy instead!
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The Academy Academy is back, folks! A new ep! A new day! We cover All the Money in the World and reexamine House of Gucci, as we head towards the finale of our longest podcast project. We discuss the controversies and meme-ification surrounding both features and determine the overarching themes that permeate Ridley Scott's oeuvre. Have we reached a Unified Theory of Ridley Scott? Are we slowly turning into the cinema podcaster equivalent of that It's Always Sunny pic of Charlie w/ the conspiracy board? Who knows? Who cares? Enter the Wonkaverse and enjoy!
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The FINAL Academy Academy Classic in this run of Academy Academy Classics. Enjoy and see y'all next week with a fresh ep!
🎵 Mother/
Tell Albert Brooks he’s allowed to stay/
Let Albert Brooks not eat your cheese/
It's too old/
It's too big/
Mother 🎵
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Please enjoy yet another wonderful Academy Academy Classic!
Do you consider yourself a Tommassian? Must one walk miles and miles to achieve podcast purity? Is there an Aquaman character named Nudist Vulko?!! All these questions and more are answered, as Don & Pat enter the world of Willem Dafoe on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Another Academy Academy Classic. Enjoy!
In honor of They Shoot Pictures, Don't They's first film poll, Donald and Patrick have decided to release a whopping 4+ hour-long BONUS EPISODE going through our personal top 25 flicks! Will Shrek appear on Patrick's list? Does Donald have an expertly crafted Jeff Goldblum impression placed up his sleeve? Find out!
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An Academy Academy Classic. Enjoy!
Aaron Sorkán. Kevin Lomax: Swamp Attorney. Gilbert Gottfried as Al Pacino as Lt. Vincent Hanna. Mr. Bean. The Stalker/Gigli Double Feature. Rock & Roll Poets. What Is Art? Why Make Things? All this is covered, perhaps even answered, on this week's delightful episode of The Academy Academy with special guest Evan Cox (I'm Enjoying My Time Here! The How Do We Human Podcast!). Make sure to listen to the very end, so you can hear Evan Cox's "Marigold" and maybe a lil' somethin else...
NOTE: Towards the end of the pod, there's a little crying (from a very cool baby) here and there. I edited out as much as I could. Apologies, even though personally I do think it adds a bit of much-needed gritty 70s New York realism that's missing from current-day podcasts ❤.
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For Don's Birthday episode, we discuss the oeuvre of German filmmaker Christian Petzold on this week's The Academy Academy.
Petzold's work often deals with the ramifications and fallout of Germany's recent past. The East German Paranoid Police State. A Post-War Germany whose national psyche mirrors its crumbling edifices. A world seemingly going through the motions of our past in what looks like our present.
Who gets to escape? How do you live in a world so thoroughly mired in acts of evil and atrocity? How do you prevent the past from repeating itself? Is that even possible?
This is Great Art, folks. Do yourself a favor: watch the films first, then give this ep a listen.
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Your favorite hotshot podcast hosts are back for the final Simpson/Bruckheimer Digression! Don & Pat discuss Top: Gun Maverick on this week's The Academy Academy. Is this Joseph Kosinski joint proof that star-driven cinema is still viable, or a swan song for a bygone era? Which TG: M actors were Don's Mom's favorites? Do you remember how much it cost to remove Henry Cavill's mustache from the Justice League reshoots? Do you go with the times... or do you make your own frontier when the range reaches its end? Tune in to find out!
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Do you remember every actor in La La Land? Do you wish to procure a horse for a block of wood from Doc Badger? Do you dream of teaching another version of yourself how to play the flute? If you answered "Yes" to any of those questions... this is the pod for you. Enjoy!
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Should anyone go full Yul? Are you a faith driven consumer? Did The Martian's extended edition need that additional 10 minutes? Should the world be clamoring for the release of the over 4 hour director's cut of Exodus: Gods & Kings?! Join Pat & Don as they cover all these questions and more on this week's The Academy Academy!
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R.I.P. Cormac McCarthy - Your work will live on.
Ready for the longest podcast of your life? Come on... listen to pod. This ain't a test... just listen to the pod. Don & Pat go into detail about Training Day's casting and production, list an inordinate amount of great Los Angeles restaurant locations, and wax nostalgic about DVD snapper cases. You better download this pod.
Oh- you downloaded the pod? That's wild...
I didn't know you liked to get wet. 😈
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What's your stance on Oprah's Book Club? Do you understand the subtle consequences of a late night Taco Bell? Would you understand warnings of an ominous and cryptic nature more if they were delivered via burger analogies?
Don & Pat are covering Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor on this week's The Academy Academy, folks. This is an episode you do not want to miss!
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It's the end of an era, folks. Don & Pat do a deep dive into Tony Scott's final film and projects that were in development on this week's The Academy Academy. We also provide our personal Tony Scott film rankings. Enjoy!
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Was 2011 the year of Michael Fassbender? If you discovered a mystery of titanic proportions... would you have the willpower to let it be? Will Ted Talks ever become popular enough to fill entire stadiums?
Get lost and goopified with Patrick Gremillion & Don Saunderson as they cover Ridley Scott's Prometheus on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Don "Whisky Voice" Saunderson and Patrick "Shrek Scholar" Gremillion are back, and we have a doozy of an ep. Will Jerry Bruckheimer bring a professional basketball team back to Seattle? How did Riley Poole and Benjamin Franklin Gates become friends? Will watching Pearl Harbor give you space dementia? Are you stranded on an island... or did you finally make it to The Baywatch?
All this and more will be discussed in this week's The Academy Academy! #CoasterCoward
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Is it possible to find true love at a BJ's? Should Jackie Chan play himself in every movie? Has Simon McBurney ever portrayed a nice person on celluloid? All these burning questions and more are addressed on this week's The Academy Academy as Don & Pat take a deep dive into the final Crowe/Scott collaboration - Robin Hood!
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Do you watch movies like Scarface and Casino and only remember the cool parts? Do you think Ridley Scott is a fan of American Dad? Do you want to hear about American Gangster's troubled production history or two goon-loving goons wax rhapsodic about Crowe's brilliant turn as the duplicitous Ed Hoffman?
If you answered yes to any of the above- strap in, sit tight, and prepare to enter The Jar Zone with Pat & Don on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Patrick Gremillion and Donald Saundrson aka the hosts of The Academy Academy: The Way of the Burger are back w/ a killer episode, folks. We're covering an oft-forgotten piece of the David Fincher puzzle- The Game!
We discuss The Game's production and casting process. We talk about customary business burger etiquette. Should every major sports league award its victors championship belts? Should we do another miniseries on Spike Jonze, as well? Is there a cinema podcast line that cannot be crossed? Will that line moving forward now be referred to as The Shankman Mark?! Tune in and find out!
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It's Patrick's birthday, folks! For his Birthday Pod, Don & Pat have chosen to return to one of The Academy Academy's most glaring Pacino omissions, as well as another film that is a little off the beaten path.
Is Al Pacino envious of the Kids in the Hall? Would you listen to a podcast hosted by Dave Foley, Mick Foley, and James Foley? Is MacGruber a searing critique of the thoughtless machismo that permeates most American action cinema?!! Tune in to find out!
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Don Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion are back to discuss A Good Year on this week's The Academy Academy! This is a Pinot Noir Classic, folks- a Charcuterie Delight! Take a day off from your job at the Business Factory, put on your cool uncle's ill-fitting sweater vest, and relax by the empty pool as French covers of classic rock leisurely play. Hopefully, there are no dastardly scorpions hell-bent on ruining the peace in the vicinity...
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Will Taika Waititi inevitably portray the Big Cheeto himself? Is Allen Covert the Fredo of the Happy Madison Universe? Will you finally understand This Is 40 at 40?!
We have a doozy of an episode today, folks. Don & Pat are covering every version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three for the pod, including the 1998 TV Movie and the John Godey novel! Strap in folks: you're in for a wild ride on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Where were you when America had Qui-Gon Jinn fever in the late Nineties?
Do you ever wonder what strawberries would taste like on a burger?
HAS THE WOKE MIND VIRUS INFECTED BLUES ROCK?!?!
Grab a slice of pizza and hold your beloved copy of You, Me, and Dupree tightly to your chest, because Patrick & Don are discussing Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (The Director's Cut Roadshow Version!) on this week's The Academy Academy: The Squeakquel!
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Is the Academy Academy hosted by Pat Gremillion and Don Saunderson, or is it hosted by Frank Bait and Edgar Clenteen? Is there such a thing as Canonical Soda Cinema™? Should knowledge of other movies exist in other movies? Everything, everywhere, all at once... in this economy??!
It's another miniseries within a miniseries, folks! We're examining the works of director Antoine Fuqua- A cinematic maximalist and Pittsburgh raconteur! Take the "Bait" (wink wink) and listen to this ep!
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Pat and Don aka the Mississippi Nice Vacationers are back to discuss three films that serve as a fascinating snapshot of turn-of-the-century tastes and sensibilities. This is an ep for folks that take their hunkiness for granted. It's a pod for those that wonder how John Goodman's slovenly father figure takes care of himself while his daughter is battling stage fright in Coyote Ugly. If you angrily wonder why No You See Me 2 wasn't titled No You Don't... The Academy Academy is for you!
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Don Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion aka The Chronological Cowboys are back with a doozy of an ep, folks. French Harvey Keitel. Dingle-gate. Rug Chats. Appreciation for the television show Treme. Donald Trump having a thing for sexy QBert. Brain-puddling revelations about successful screenwriters. Shrek walking out on Marc Maron. These are just the tangents* on this week's The Academy Academy, which covers Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men and Tony Scott's Déjà Vu. Strap in and enjoy!
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This week, Don & Pat tackle Domino- a bonafide Tubi Treat™ that pushes boundaries and probably should've involved the hit Van Morrison song Domino in some capacity!
Is going on a walk or reading a book a more effective use of time than watching The Snyder Cut?
Should Don & Pat attend a 4-day darkness retreat to determine our podcasting future?
Did anyone ever want to watch the movie Belfast?!
Tune in and find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
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It's another miniseries within a miniseries on this week's episode of The Academy Academy!
Don & Pat discuss David Fincher's origins as a commercial and music video director, Seven's impact on modern cinema, and the wild alternate castings that almost occurred. Let's just say one of these people, had they been cast, would have orange crushed it...
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Is Con Air a simple film for a simpler time or a misunderstood classic? Is Armageddon the cinematic equivalent of carving a bong out of an apple or a work worthy of its inclusion in the Criterion Collection? Can you be both of those things at once?
Don Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion discuss the first films of the post-Don Simpson era, Con Air and Armageddon, on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Is Black Hawk Down an act of male imagination? Is The Academy Academy the number-one podcast for proud stinkers? Were Whistler and Sam Shepard contemporaries? Tune in to find out!
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Can a commercial be art? Can an auteur convince you to purchase a luxury vehicle? Should the cast of The Banshees of Inisherin be the cast of the next Bond film? Should the New York Times have a Pandora bureau?!
Tune in, as Don & Pat cover The Hire- a series of short films starring Clive Owen as "The Driver" and his myriad of German automobiles on this week's The Academy Academy!
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The Original Guys Just Being Dudes are back with their Top 10 films of 2022! Did Avatar make the cut? Did Don & Pat consider Bardo a banger? Would you trade 5 years of your life to be 6'4" and absolutely shredded? Does the Joker have a Lorne Michaels story?! All this and more will be answered on this week's The Academy Academy!
Enjoy!
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Do you get commercials for weird medicine when you watch something on Tubi? Are you yearning for a solid introduction to the oeuvre of Carl Franklin? Is The Crow the opposite of Tár? All this and more is discussed on this week's The Academy Academy as your intrepid hosts Don & Pat give a rundown on the film that defined Tony Scott's 21st century works: Man on Fire.
Crank up your Netzero accounts, folks- Don & Pat are talking Hannibal and Spy Game on this week's The Academy Academy! Is Bob Dylan the key popular artist of the 20th century? Did the opening credits sequence of Se7en ruin opening credits sequences for the next decade? Must a Chris fall for a Paul to rise?! Tune in to find out!
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This ep took a while to make, but it's finally here. It's for the folks who relate to E.T.'s love of candy. For the folks who have a fondness for Slim Pickens and William Devane. For those that consider Claude Chabrol a dang normie.
Enjoy!
Is Commodus the Phantom Menace? Is Proximo basically a CAA Agent? Is Orson Welles the king of the Big Boys? Could Russell Crowe portray the Maud'Dib? Could Timothée Chalamet portray Maximus?
Find out the answers to these burning questions and more as Don & Pat hang out in Dad Movie Elysium and discuss Ridley Scott's Gladiator on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Don and Pat return to the briny depths to discuss James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water on this week's The Academy Academy!
Is 4DX any good? Is James Cameron the only director to have discovered a new species of sea cucumber? Is The Weeknd a 21st Century Celine Dion?
Grab a thermos of gold soul goo and find out!
Pat and Don discuss all things Enemy of the State in this week's episode of The Academy Academy! Is Gene Hackman portraying the same character he played in The Conversation? Why is Jon Voight dressed exactly like Robert S. McNamara? Should there be more awards given at The Academy Awards??
Tune in to find out!Note: Patrick's audio quality is terrible in this episode! Sorry, folks.
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A partnership torn apart by insecurity and avarice. A tragic and ignominious end to one of Hollywood's hit machines. And in the middle of all this, one of the greatest action films of all time is crafted.
Don and Patrick discuss The Rock and more on this week's The Academy Academy.
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Would you do what it takes to climb the hill from Thief of Hearts, or die trying like Norm from Cheers? Would you watch Gran Torino: 2 to Tango? Is Eddie Murphy's performance in Norbit actually one of the best of all time?!
Folks- you've entered podcasting Boot Camp. Let Don Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion be your Master Chiefs (not the video game guy) as we discuss the ins and outs of G.I. Jane on a surprisingly thorough and unsurprisingly tangent-filled episode of The Academy Academy!
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Gil Renard is a troubled knife salesman and baseball fanatic. Bobby Rayburn is a hotshot MLB pro that just signed a $40 million contract with the San Francisco Giants. Gil turns his obsessions towards Bobby. Things escalate. John Kruk gets knifed in the rain.
Returning Champ Andrew Saunderson (Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill) joins us to discuss all things The Fan on this week's The Academy Academy! We also have a surprise drop-in from a Mystery Knife Correspondent and, of course, there is a fun little tangent about that classic John Wells joint Burnt. Enjoy!
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Schools in session... and your teachers on the tallest peak of Cocaine Mountain are none other than former marines/Bob Dylan aficionados Don Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion!
We're talking all things Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, folks. Are there only 10 guys in Hollywood? Would you be wowed by the sensuality of Detective Mike Sex? Did Stevie Wonder assassinate JFK?! Will our grandkids make it to Elysium?!!
Tune in to find out!
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Dad Donald Saunderson and Friend of Dad Patrick Gremillion return to Scott/Scott with the explosive Crimson Tide!
Denzel at his most Denzel!
Hackman at his most Hackman!
Were you a child when Ghosts of Mississippi fever swept the nation? Should Warren Beatty have played Bill in Kill Bill? What sick freak picks up the dog poop in the little baggy, and then leaves it on top of a dang mailbox?!
This ep is a corker folks, don't miss out!
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Boo! It's that time of the year when your haunted hosts Patrick-or-treat Gremlin and Don-of-the-Dead Scaryson shine a light on an underrated cinematic horror icon! We talk Lance Henriksen and discuss his performances in Near Dark, Pumpkinhead, and Alien 3 on this week's The Acade-scary Acade-shriek!
The Academy Academy: The Only Podcast Enamored by the Cinema of Hubie Halloween™
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Donald "The Minefield Avoider" Saunderson and Patrick "The Good Opinion Haver" Gremillion talk 1492: Conquest of Paradise and White Squall on this week's The Academy Academy!
Was White Squall Ridley Scott's excuse to go Sandlering in the Caribbean?
Is Hannibal Lecter a fan of dolphins?
Is Michael Clayton a regular Tár?!
Tune in to find out!
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Don makes his triumphant return to the only podcast in the biz that references both Jeff Hanneman and Eliot Spitzer- The Academy Academy!
Which prop would Pat steal if he saw it on display at Planet Hollywood?
Which actor brought their mother to the set of True Romance?
Should every movie end with the main character shakily incorporating the film's title into the dialogue?!
Tune in to find out and remember- Watch Movies. Don't Post!
Apologies for the pod delay!
Due to some last-minute scheduling calamities, we're taking a brief detour off the Scottway and exiting directly onto Lustig Lane. Returning Champ and all-around-mensch Paul Heredia returns to discuss Robert Forster and Fred Williamson's Vigilante on this week's The Academy Academy!
Did Patrick choose to discuss the movie because of something Quentin Tarantino said on his commentary for True Romance? Yes! Is this a loosey-goosey episode that was recorded at 1 in the morning? You betcha! Is this an episode light on hard facts and insider Hollywood tidbits and heavy on japes about Goofy and how 80s movies love pipes? Yep. Enjoy! ❤️
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This film is a banger folks, as is the pod! Does Thelma & Louise feature Brad Pitt at peak hunkiness? Do we detail how Callie Khouri went from producing Foreigner music videos to winning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay? Was having a scary wife the biggest fear of early-90s male columnists? Tune in to find out as Don & Pat talk Thelma & Louise on this week's The Academy Academy!
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You can take the Michael Douglas out of California... but can you take the California out of Michael Douglas? Can a perfectly thrown football save a life from sniper fire? Will we ever get those salt-of-the-earth Lava Factory jobs back in the good ol' US of A? Will Pat & Don make it to the Hat Convention this year? A certain character in Black Rain probably won't! Join the Semi-Sunday Morning Boyz as they discuss the ins and outs of Black Rain and The Last Boy Scout on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Does Days of Thunder have the best character names in a film featured on The Academy Academy? Would you watch Don Simpson's Driving Miss Daisy? Should they reboot House with Michael Rooker? Is Tom Cruise a Hair Actor?!
Wow, we've got an episode on our hands, folks! Don Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion burn rubber and talk Days of Thunder on this week's very funny and informative episode of The Academy Academy!
Jerry... Tug.... Don... Tug?!!
Is Andreas Katsulas in Someone to Watch Over Me the One-Armed Man before he lost one arm? Does Kevin Costner have the joie de vivre of Wings Hauser? Is it possible to make an erotic thriller without thrills and eroticism?
All these questions and more are tackled by Don and Pat on this week's The Academy Academy!
Does the beauty of Ridley Scott's The Good Year bring Quentin Tarantino to tears?
Does the crew of the USS Enterprise use their holodeck to hang out in Alexander Payne films?
Will fan-favorite character "Chill Don" give Legend the coveted "Bueno" or the cinematic equivalent to the Death's Kiss- the much feared "No Bueno"?!
All this and a prolonged Whistler bit involving Norman Mailer and John Grisham is discussed on this week's The Academy Academy!
Will Scorsese ever release the Skeet Ulrich Cut of Gangs of New York? Could a fellow stranded on a desert island craft a fashionable double tank top solely from coconut husks? Are the two pillars of cinema Hong Sang-soo's Introduction and Brian Levant's Jingle All the Way? Does Arnold's hunt for Turbo Man truly represent man's greater search for meaning and identity?
It's the 100th episode, folks! Grab a snack from the Set Toomgis, avoid the Set Bear, sit back, relax and listen to Don & Pat reminisce about the pod on this week's The Academy Academy!
Does Flashdance contain the origins of a certain sports agent with dollar signs in his name? Would you force George Wendt to climb a steep hill? Will Bruno return... with The Beatles?
Don & Pat tackle these questions and more as they discuss Flashdance, Thief of Hearts, and the origins of the Producing Powerhouse Duo Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer on this week's The Academy Academy!
WARNING: This episode isn't only hands-on, folks, it's also... feet-on?
Don Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion are back to talk Beverly HIlls 2 on this week's The Academy Academy!
Leghorn Columbo. 50 Shades of Don Simpson. Tangents about Harold Faltermeyer and 3 Men and a Baby. This is a fun and breezy episode, folks!
Does Don break down why most comedy sequels fail? Uhhhh yeah... he goes there. Does Patrick say the same Glen Fry anecdote twice in one pod? Uhhhhh yeah.... that happened.
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down and see two podcasters. They're crawling toward you. They host The Academy Academy. They're discussing Blade Runner, talking about its literary origins, going into detail about alternate castings and definitive cuts. You flip the podcasters on their backs. They reference past bits involving American burger customs and elbow patches, their bellies baking in the sun. They cannot turn over without your help, but you are not helping. They talk about Sandlering and Edward James Almost. Why is that?
Do you want to know the location of the most cursed Wendy's in Los Angeles? Is there a rafting trip so tantalizing that you would give 6 months of your life to partake? Is the Nostromo a spaceship, or a commercial space tug? Are we living in the Summer of ET?!!
All of these questions and more will be answered by your intrepid hosts Patrick (Call Sign: Jingle) and Donald (Call Sign: Wet Blanket, PIlot Hater, and/or Ding Dong) on this week's riveting The Academy Academy!
The new miniseries is finally here! Scott/Scott - a deep dive into the works of Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, is upon us!
Did Ridley Scott create the Daleks? Would you do the Bill Paxton in True Lies if someone challenged you to a duel? Should you live life like a ZZ Top album? Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
The 7 AM Boyz are back, folks... and we're doing a one-off on the cinematic works of Dana Elaine Owens aka Queen Latifah!
We talk about old VH1 top 100 lists that are now available on Youtube. We wax philosophical about Wild Hogs. We concoct the plot for a Queen Latifah/Adam Sandler Presidential romantic comedy that should have been made instead of Bringing Down the House. Don has to switch to recording via smartphone 1/3 into the episode. We talk Cropsy.
This episode has it all, folks- give it a listen!
Don's birthday is coming up, so he chose the theme of today's pod!
Hong Sang-soo bucks structural norms and finds a way to create his Art in a system seemingly only designed to support IP blockbusters. He is genuinely a one-of-a-kind filmmaker.
Give his films a watch, and then give us a listen!
Do you consider yourself a Tommassian? Must one walk miles and miles to achieve podcast purity? Is there an Aquaman character named Nudist Vulko?!! All these questions and more are answered, as Don & Pat enter the world of Willem Dafoe on this week's The Academy Academy!
The Snipes bracket is over. The Shame Boyz are sleepy and sick. We're wondering out loud whether or not Tommaso will date Jill from Jack & Jill. Join Don and Pat as they talk all things Van Peebles on this week's The Academy Academy!
Hey, Baby Dolls- it's the thrilling conclusion to the Wesley Snipes Bracket! Will New Jack City reign supreme? Will White Men Can't Jump score a final game-winning shot? Do you want to know which Snipes film has the Best Goon? What about the Stamps Dot Villain of the Season? The Best Paco?!! Do you want to know which actors made it into the Academy Academy Hall of Fame? Do you want to know which suspect Academy Academy voters earned the title of Stink of the Week? If you answer yes to even one of those questions, give this pod a listen as Don and Pat determine via science the objectively Best Wesley Snipes performance on this week's The Academy Academy!
Does Paul Shaffer play the drums? (No)
Does Patrick's audio sound like he's recording from the bottom of a well? (Yes)
The Sunday Morning Boyz watch Hard Luck and Gallowwalkers for the penultimate Snipes' pod, and while these features may not be Bobby Rayburn's finest outings, we can all at least agree that ¸.·¯⍣✩ ⓔⓥⓔⓡⓨ ⓜⓞⓥⓘⓔ ⓘⓢ ⓐ ⓜⓘⓡⓐⓒⓛⓔ ✩⍣¯·.¸
Is America just a wet hamburger party? Should the Lord of the Rings have ended with a fun little pillow fight? Is Professor X a big fan of The Blues?!
The wonderful Becky Feldman (Tight: Sexy Stories About Pelvic Pain) returns for a third time to discuss all this and more on the penultimate bracket episode of this season's The Academy Academy!
The Academy Academy: Who Cares™
Folks, are Don & Pat finally starting to feel Snipes fatigue?
Have we finally lost most of our listeners... and our minds?
Should Rain (the meteorological phenomenon, not the member of The Black Eyed Peas) have been nominated for an Oscar?
Isn't Maury Chaykin great?
All this and more is discussed on this week's Odds and Ends episode of The Academy Academy!
The Three-peat phenom Nick Eliafan rejoins The Shame Boyz to discuss Proustian Shrek memories, Anchorman boners, Wayne Knight Punishers, and more on this week's The Academy Academy! #CoolJoker #DolphinsOverWolves
Donald "Figures out the Villain 11 Minutes into the Movie" Saunderson and Patrick "My Grandma's Favorite Snipes Movie is Murder at 1600" take another break from the bracket to discuss a couple of Snipes films off the beaten path!
Would you watch a gritty adaptation of the board game Shoots & Ladders? Is the hottest new TIkTok craze "Keaching"? Would Daffy Duck put two in the back of Michigan J. Frog's head? Tune in to find out!
Is yogurt goopy soup? Would Blade's vampire hunt benefit from a certain pair of traveling pants? Would click the CANCEL TED LASSO button, if you had the chance? Returning champ Lauren Scharf joins Pat and Daniel as we talk Jungle Fever and Passenger 57 on this week's The Academy Academy!
Paige Elson (This Is a Moment) joins your favorite incredibly sensitive podcasters to discuss two critical pillars in the Snipes pantheon: New Jack City and Demolition Man!
Are you a fan of surprise Jen Saunderson cameos? Is one of your dreams getting to eat at Bucco di Beppo with Bruce the Shark and Drive My Car's Iconic Red Saab? Do you crave an Ocean's 11 Basher Tarr spinoff where Wesley Snipes plays Basher's older British brother? If so, then this is the pod for you!
Wowza- it's another Don and Pat Bonus ep! Your favorite spice-loving podcast hosts tackle some lesser, oft-forgotten films featuring the one and only Wesley Snipes. Should Scent of a Woman have an action-packed sequel? Should there be a gender-swapped remake of Thursday's Game? Is it customary to give an American businessman skittles when he feels lightheaded? Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
Is the Gorilla Munch Ape a Reinfeld? Have you ever been in a Classic Klumps Situation? Was the Day Music Died caused by... vampires?!
Amy Drolet (Everything Is Scary) joins your spice-loving hosts Don & Pat to discuss these burning questions and more on this week's vampire and dance competition-filled episode of The Academy Academy!
Angry Nude Stallones!
Anime rabbit holes!
Red vs. Blue Man Group!
Graham High (The Rise and Fall of Victoria's Secret) returns to the pod and Marcelina Chavira (Super Giant Robot Brothers) fills in for an under-the-weather Don Saunderson (Do not fret- he'll be back next week!) to determine whether Major League is in a league of its own, or if White Men Can't Jump can shoot from Sudan on this week's The Academy Academy!
The Sunday Morning Boyz use Snipes' supporting turn in King of New York as an excuse to record a pod on Abel Ferrara on this week's The Academy Academy! Could David Lee Roth have portrayed Tommaso? Does plasma have a smell? Does crime actually slap? Tune in to find out!
It's another Sunday Morning Boyz hangout sesh, folks! Don & Pat step away from the bracket to discuss an eclectic trio of Snipes films: Streets of Gold, Mo' Better Blues, and The Waterdance! Would you accept spam from the ghost of Stingo? Can Klaus Maria Brandauer actually do pull-ups? Are all the sets in Marriage Story actually expertly crafted CGI? Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
Returning Champ Randy Thompson joins Don & Pat to discuss Snipes' performances in Jungle Fever and One Night Stand!
Should you take Spike Lee's masterclass? Should Spike Lee direct a sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun? Is your favorite character Jonathan Date aka Robert Downey Jr's character from Due Date? Would Whistler be attracted to the Na'vi??! Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
It's another pod off the beaten path, folks! The Monday Morning Boyz take a break from Snipes to check in on their previous bracket subjects' most recent works on this week's The Academy Academy. Should there have been a You, Me, and Dupree 2? Is the world ready for a more ambitious Manglehorn? Shouldn't you be having dinner with your family and loved ones? Tune in to find out!
WARNING: WE GET A LITTLE MORE POLITICAL THAN USUAL IN THIS EP. DON'T YELL AT US PLEASE.
Amechi Ngwe (The Can't Tell Us Nothing Improv Team and Podcast!) joins staunch Dad's Law advocates Pat and Don to discuss Boiling Point and Demolition Man. Should there be more roundhouse kicks in Boiling Point? Should there be more roundhouse kicks in It's Complicated? Should Don and Pat run an Old Person Tiktok Home? Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
Do you miss movies about jerks? Was Abraham Whistler a roadie for Iron Butterfly? Should Wesley Snipes become the new Whistler in the inevitable MCU Blade reboot? Jarko... Grimwood!?!? All this and more is discussed on this week's very fun off-the-bracket-path episode of The Academy Academy!
Jen Saunderson and Kyle Clark (Everything Is Scary) both return to the pod to discuss the Blade Franchise! Is Colman Domingo the coolest living actor? Who is the ultimate 70s guy: Elliot Gould or Kristofferson? Druig and Kingo are great, but what about Nomak? This ep is a barn burner, folks- don't miss out!
Winston Carter (Drac & The Swamp Rats!) joins us on the pod to discuss White Men Can't Jump and Undisputed on this week's The Academy Academy! Does Kevin Feige sound like Vin Diesel? Should the Shame Boyz be Hartnett Heads?? Should Blade be in Billions??? Tune in to find out!
Human Worms! Iconic Red Saabs! Little Flowers Bursting Through Concrete!
Follow Don "Front Row Boy" Saunderson and Patrick "Ooof I called the MOMA the MOMO on the damn podcast" Gremillion as they share each of their top 10 films of 2021 on this week's The Academy Academy!
Is it time to start? Yeah, I think it's time to start. 😏
Oooh do you smell the hay smoking? Do you hear the crackle of a stable going up in flames? You bet your sweet buns you do! This week's ep the Sometimes Sunday Morning Boyz tackle two bonafide barn-burners: Passenger 57 and Drop Zone. Returning Champ and Resident Bad Boy Adam Moshcatel returns as we discuss felled rodeo clowns, swampy sky scoundrels, and so much more on this week's The Academy Academy!
Improviser and all-around kind fellow Mark Andrew Wilson joins us on the pod to discuss New Jack City and Sugar Hill on this week's The Academy Academy! How high are Ray Skuggs' Fredo levels on the Fredometer? Should there be a New Jack City spinoff where Nick Peretti teaches PE? Who would be the ideal running mate for Wesley Snipes if he ran for President? Tune in to find out!!
Returning Champ and fan-favorite Jen Saunderson (Everything Is Scary) returns to the pod to discuss perhaps the two most feel-good films on the bracket: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and Dolemite Is My Name!
Does To Wong Foo deserve an action-packed sequel? Is Robert California actually the best character in The Office? And just which one of The Academy Academy's intrepid hosts had the opportunity to meet the fabled Rudy Ray Moore in the flesh?! This is how the cookie crumbles: welcome to Bruce Almighty town!
Should every movie end with a Bill Medley love theme? Would you be able to play in the MLB if you couldn't hit a curveball?? Should The Academy Academy release a series of Robert De Niro NFTS??! (The answer to that one is no.)
Returning Champ Andrew Saunderson brings his baseball expertise to help The Shame Boyz determine if Major League is an underdog worth rooting for or if we are, indeed, bigger fans of The Fan on this week's The Academy Academy!
Forget about feeding your pets and taking your kids to school, folks! Season 3 of The Academy Academy has finally arrived, and the subject is everybody's favorite Daywalker: Wesley Snipes! It's an eclectic group of films on the bracket- from serious dramas and cult classics to genre fare and action romps. How many forms of martial arts does Wesley Snipes know? Is he the only actor we've covered that has won a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival? Does Don actually own a dang plum or is that just the title of an unreleased film?! Tune in and find out on Season 3 of The Academy Academy!
It's the finale of the Brooks/Brooks miniseries, and Thursday's Game with the wind! Don and Pat rank their top five Brooks movies, rank their other top five Brooks movies, and wax philosophical about Red Lobster. Should Pat hitch on a train and adopt the Hard Times lifestyle? Should Albert Brooks portray the next Marvel supervillain? Tune in and find out. Spanglish!
Hark- a festive surprise for our fellow millenniums! It's our inaugural Pat & Don Pick 'Em Up, where your intrepid hosts each get to choose a film to discuss for the pod; this time with a festive twist! Is stew the coffee of Minneapolis? Is banking the only important thing? Watch the capitalist chicanery unfold in front of you in a haze of wine as we discuss The Silent Partner and Jingle All the Way on this week's The Academy Academy!
Don & Pat, your ♫ Hollywood Mennnnn ♫, take a break from Brooks to discuss their cinematic discoveries of 2021! All of these films were watched for the first time by us this year, and they're yarns of the highest order. Give this a listen while you're shopping in your town's Lava District, or contemplating how many summers you have left!
Cool Dude Alert: Your favorite morin'-recordin' boys are back w/ a particularly eclectic group of films featuring either James L. Brooks, Albert Brooks, or both!
Which director did Quentin Tarantino consider a fake tough guy? Which one of these films did a co-host fall asleep during three times? Is Drive basically Being There meets Death Wish?
Tune in and all shall be revealed on this week's The Academy Academy!
Don “The Box Office Guesser” Saunderson and Patrick “9 to 5” Gremillion tackle Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World and How Do You Know on this week's The Academy Academy!
Should Adam Sandler portray the Punisher? Did Jonathan Larson take Nedda’s Job? Is Kramer vs. Kramer an Academy Academy ur-text? Are you a Druig dude or a Doink fellow? Business Crimes?? Lady Confidential?! Click that download button and listen, folks!
Sit back and relax on the one and only couch from Saving Private Ryan, as the 9 AM Boys discuss The Muse, Spanglish, and..... Burt Reynolds' Paternity???
What is a Chuck without his Axelrod? What heinous acts would you commit to work on the set of Twin Sitters? Grim tangents abound in this episode, but one thing is certain: Don and Pat should be given the key to the HCU (Heat Cinematic Universe).
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Tell Albert Brooks he’s allowed to stay/
Let Albert Brooks not eat your cheese/
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Could James L. Brooks defend I'll Do Anything in Judgement City? Would Defending Your Life work with a downer ending? Download the latest Flap skin and join Don and Pat in the Metaverse for this week's installment of Brooks/Brooks on The Academy Academy!
Was the Summer of Love literally just a summer? Is Gaddafi a dictator or a type of juice? Do the Sunday Shame Boys wax rhapsodic about a cadre of 80s standard-bearers? You bet we do that and more and we discuss Lost in America and Broadcast News on this week's The Academy Academy!!
Hold on to your pineal glands, folks- because this Academy Academy is gonna be a bumpy ride!! Don and Pat take a devilish detour down Barbara Crampton Boulevard to discuss her performances in three iconic works: From Beyond, Castle Freak, and You're Next. Which host only knows Ken Foree from Kenan & Kel? Which Hollywood celebs own a resonator? How would Danny Collins deal with a Castle Freak? Tune in to find out!!
Don and Pat tackle Modern Romance and Terms of Endearment on this week's episode of The Academy Academy! Is it possible to make quaaludes look uncool? Shall the shame boys once again sing the song of MacGruber? Do your two favorite ding-dongs provide some light analysis of Must-See TV?! Download this pod and find out!!
Oh no, not another interstitial miniseries!!! Before we tackle our next bracket, Don and Pat are going to take a little detour down Cerebral Dramedy Boulevard and examine the works of Albert Brooks and James L. Brooks. Learn the faux-Irish origins of James L. Brooks! Discover fascinating television tidbits about the Rural Purge!! Listen to us discuss whether or not Burt Reynolds can effectively portray yet another late seventies/early eighties sad East Coast divorcee!!! Does the Academy Academy allegedly support crime? Tune in to find out!
Noted Brestians Don and Pat tackle all 6 hours of Scent of a Woman and Meet Joe Black on this week's episode of The Academy Academy. Would Scent of a Woman still work with Stephen Dorff in the Chris O'Donnell role? Was every person of note in history actually killed by two cars? Was Death a dang himbo?! Tune in to find out, folks. This one is a corker.
The Heat Is On, folks.... and we're all doing the Neutron Dance! Join Don and Pat as we cover arguably the most successful and critically acclaimed works of Martin Brest, Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run, on today's The Academy Academy! #YuppieAndTheHump #MoreMitch #AnnoyingButLovable
It's time for another interstitial The Academy Academy miniseries, folks! Don and Pat want to figure out what makes Martin Brest, the director of both Beverly Hills Cop and Gigli, tick. In this episode, we take a look at his earlier works. Two are student features. One, on its face, appears to be a seemingly straightforward Hollywood debut. Is there more than meets the eye? If you wish to find out, please take the Gigli pill, calmly imagine George Burns as Thor, and let Ray Sharkey drive you on this wild and bumpy ride into the world of Martin Brest.
This isn't a podcast about Sal Pacino. This isn't a podcast about David Pacino. This podcast could only be about Al Pacino. Pat and Don record some regrets, dole out the Academy Academy Awards, inaugurate eight actors into the Academy Academy Hall of Fame, and tally the votes that shall determine the best Al Pacino performance. Does Serpico stand a chance? Will Dog Day Afternoon have its day? Tune in to find out!!!
On today's pod we discuss Righteous Kill, the crass cash-grab; and The Irishman, the meta masterpiece. Why do the police keep crafting poetry? Who would play James Cameron in a Greatest Showman-style musical about his life? And just which British actor is mad at the Shame Boys this time?? Tune in to find out!
Note- The King of the Geezer Teasers: Inside Randall Emmett’s Direct-To-Video Empire, Where Many Hollywood Stars Have Found Lucrative Early Retirement by Joshua Hunt is an article that was published on Vulture, not The Ringer. It's definitely worth the read if you want to know why A) Righteous Kill and The Irishman both have the same producer and B) Righteous Kill can be seen as a predecessor to those VOD films that have Bruce Willis in them for maybe 10 minutes tops.
The article: https://www.vulture.com/article/randall-emmett-movies.html
Peculiarly punctuated titles! Father-son jeans jogging! Babies crying! Film reviews by.... Zagat??!?! This is the nutritional content slurry we all crave, folks! We have riffs flowing like white wine off this bad boy! Give this ep a listen as Don and Pat discuss Bobby Deerfield, ...And Justice for All, and Author! Author! on this week's The Academy Academy! #DadsRock #AdRockComeBack
Becky Feldman (The Too Stupid To Live Podcast!) returns to discuss Michael Mann's The Insider and Sidney Lumet's Serpico on this week's The Academy Academy! Belly laughs are had, the entertainment value of competency is measured, and a rousing game of Scent of Some Cumin is played. This is a ballpark ep, folks- don't miss out!
Is The Offer an offer we can't refuse? Will The House of Gucci get Ridley Scott that Oscar gold? Will there be a trademark The Academy Academy swerve? Is Nedda one of cinema's underappreciated characters? Y tu mamá... Dupree? All this and MORE will be answered on this week's The Academy Academy!
Will two dudes with a podcast inevitably reference The Sopranos? Is Tony Stark a Baird man? Is beer the Christian weed? Is Steve-O our generation's trickster deity? And if you show a pregnant dog, do you have to show the dang puppies afterwards? All of these burning questions and more will be answered by your beloved Shame Boyz and our delightful returning champ Nick Eliafan on this week's The Academy Academy!
Don and Patrick discuss Al Pacino's trio of HBO films. These films tackle difficult subject matter, ranging from euthanasia to murder, so it's totally understandable if you want to sit this one out! We talk about fallen idols, wild wigs, and the cons of watching these movies in succession on this week's The Academy Academy.
This one nearly broke us. Bad for our souls... great for podcasting!
WARNING: There is some baby crying during this recording, but I think it complements the chaos of the ep? It's almost as if she is trying to warn us that releasing content about Gigli and Jack & Jill is an affront to nature itself...
Returning Champ/Television Writer/ABBA Laserdisc Owner Kristina Woo (Halston! Players on Paramount Plus!) joins the Shame Boys to talk Mann and De Palma on this week's The Academy Academy! Should art make you cry? Would Scarface be a better film if Robert Loggia and Al Pacino danced on a giant toy piano-pad together? Do you yearn to know what life would be like in an Al-ternate universe? Tune in to find out!
Actor/Improviser/Acting Coach Randy Thompson (The Ruby!) joins The Two Fredos to discuss Al's performances in Scarecrow and Serpico! Does Serpico have to go, or will Scarecrow have to eat cantaloupe like a belly-achin' rhinoceros? Tune in to find out!
The Two Fredos are back and fuggedaboutit folks, this ep is one for the dang books! Don, Pat, and Maria "The Academaria" Walsh-Cole talk children running the Oscars, monkey movies, defending bullies, Heartbreakers, merkin mustaches, and much, much more on this week's The Academy Academy! #JusticeForEd #PencilThin #DudeStuff
Matt McCarthy (We Watch Wrestling! Sober Dad!) joins the Not Baird Men to discuss another non-bracket Pacino film... The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone! Is this Al Pacino's first Hoo-ah performance? Does the animated series based on the Dick Tracy movie get brought up? Could Al Pacino play the lead role in a Vince McMahon biopic? Download this dang pod and find out!!
Tales from the Mooseport! Fredo's Jurassic Park!! Brutal Grandpa Energy!!! At least one of those things has to prick up your ears. Filmmaker/Writer Kevin Hamedani (aka the Michael to Don and Pat's Fredos) joins us to discuss Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather Part II on this week's The Academy Academy!
We're not talkin' Sal Pacino. Hell, we're not even talkin' David Pacino. We're talkin' Al Pacino, and this ep has a lot to cover. We discuss the current state of the bracket, Cruella, a possible reason for Jean Reno's prevalence in mid-to-late 90s American Cinema, and some of the more niche and unique works in the Pacino catalogue. Lights out, Richard!
Greetings, Al-coholics! The hilarious and talented Jenny Zigrino (Comedy Central Presents! The upcoming Too Late!) joins your favorite Scientists to discuss Serpico, Cruising, sanpaku eyes, Tom Hulce trivia, and what a Sicario sequel directed by Nancy Meyers would entail. At one point, everyone does an impression of Wallace Shawn doing an impression of Theodore the Chipmunk. This episode is a wild ride, folks!
In honor of They Shoot Pictures, Don't They's first film poll, Donald and Patrick have decided to release a whopping 4+ hour-long BONUS EPISODE going through our personal top 25 flicks! Will Shrek appear on Patrick's list? Does Donald have an expertly crafted Jeff Goldblum impression placed up his sleeve? Find out!
It's a double-dose of De Palma on this week's The Academy Academy! We have special guest Andrew Saunderson (The Me You Can't See! Donald Saunderson's Brother!) on the pod to discuss everything from elaborate crane-shots to poor, poor Lalin. Plus- another round of What's in the Boxd!
Aaron Sorkán. Kevin Lomax: Swamp Attorney. Gilbert Gottfried as Al Pacino as Lt. Vincent Hanna. Mr. Bean. The Stalker/Gigli Double Feature. Rock & Roll Poets. What Is Art? Why Make Things? All this is covered, perhaps even answered, on this week's delightful episode of The Academy Academy with special guest Evan Cox (I'm Enjoying My Time Here! The How Do We Human Podcast!). Make sure to listen to the very end, so you can hear Evan Cox's "Marigold" and maybe a lil' somethin else...
NOTE: Towards the end of the pod, there's a little crying (from a very cool baby) here and there. I edited out as much as I could. Apologies, even though personally I do think it adds a bit of much-needed gritty 70s New York realism that's missing from current-day podcasts ❤.
The Broken Men of Podcasting are back, and boy howdy do we have an ep. We're tackling The Godfathers with Courtney Haney (@comradepepper on Instagram)! Courtney expounds on her California beach city influenced Al-tobiography, Donald wonders how far he'd be willing to go to make great French toast, and Patrick introduces a new game involving everybody's favorite website- ooh baby, it's Letterboxd! Sweet Pacheens!
Do you want to see Al Pacino as Phil Spector as the Tim Robinson Hot Dog? Do you want to hear tales of necessary cheese danishes? Do you want to see an image of the thiccest goddamn cartoon owl alive?! If you answered yes to any of these, then bad news- you probably have cinematic toxoplasmosis. Sorry bud :/
Which Al Pacino character did a young Don dress up as for Halloween? Would Rocket Raccoon side with Neil McCauley or Lt. Vincent Hanna? Is Justin Theroux too hot to portray someone with a job that doesn't involve just being a dang hunk? Quit feeling stinky, folks- these questions and more will be answered on this week's The Academy Academy, featuring Wild's ferociously funny Jessica Svendsgaard (@svendsgaard)! WARNING: Jessica has a cool pet bird whose chirping can occasionally be heard on the recording. It adds ambiance, imo.
Was Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade the second gunman? Was Tango the Salsa of the 1990s?? Did Weird Al miss a great opportunity when he didn't write a parody song of Nookie titled Wookie??? The wildly humorous Paul Heredia (@paulheredia on Instagram, @paulontheinternet on TikTok!) drops in to help pontificate and examine these burning questions and MORE on this week's The Academy Academy!
Put on your finest pair of Al Pa-chinos, because your favorite Grokodiles Donald Saunderson and Patrick Gremillion are here to talk The Panic in Needle Park and Dog Day Afternoon with the wonderful Cozi Orlen of the You Need to See This podcast! This recording was intense folks: there were internet shortages, tech issues, Garageband mishaps; but it was all worth it so we could let our beloved listeners know who this week's Stamps Dot Com's FOOL OF THE WEEK is on this week's The Academy Academy ♥.
Do you desire to know the proper pronunciation of Gigli? Do you message your siblings with clips of The Local Stigmatic? When someone brings up Manglehorn in idle conversation, do you immediately shout Mangle-give-me-some-more? If you answered yes to one of these questions, then boy howdy do we have the podcast for you. We discuss the ins and outs of the Al Pacino bracket on this week's The Academy Academy!
Do you ever feel like a Sigourney Weaver in a world of Giovanni Ribisis? Do you feel stuck on that last train to Gollum-Town? Is your day being ruined by a post-credits sequence featuring that accursed baby Groot? Well boy howdy, do I have a podcast for you! It's the finale of the James Cameron Palate Cleanser, and we're discussing Titanic and Avatar, ranking all the Cameron films, and announcing which actor we'll cover in The Academy Academy's second season! Get a bowl of mussel chowder, make sure it hasn't been tampered with in ANY way, and enjoy the show!
The origin of Baby Yoda's Pee. Time-traveling Bullworth. The Lava Industry. Charles "Mank" Dance. Hasta La Vista Don and Dan Stanton... and those are just SOME of the bits!! From brain-shattering dream sequences to Bill Paxton Oscar snubs, we cover all that is Terminator 2: Judgement Day and True Lies on this week's only slightly late The Academy Academy!
The Shame Boys are back for Round 2 of the James Cameron Palette Cleanser: Other Worlds! We talk cats eating Criterion cases, tea times not taken lightly, bootleg blu-rays, and a classic Cameron near-death experience! Do you want to know the last time Don Saunderson had a blueberry night? Tune in to find out!!
NOTE: Patrick's audio unfortunately sounds like it was recorded from the bottom of a well. Apologies for this technical snafu. Future recordings will sound like they were recorded from, at very least, the middle of the well. 🙏
Our first post-Meryl episode! Your favorite Cosmé McMoon appreciators are taking a break from taking a deep dive into an actor's oeuvre by taking a deep dive into the oeuvre of a director who likes to take deep dives! For the next 4 episodes... we're discussing James Cameron!! We talk about a Bond villain-esque producer best described as the bastard son of Robert Evans without any of the classiness of Robert Evans. There's a tangent about the November Rain music video. There's another tangent about the absurdity of Chris O'Dowd playing a traffic cop in Bridesmaids. And, of course, we discuss Piranha II: The Spawning and The Terminator- grunions and all.
We bring back every guest to determine which film contains the definitive Meryl Streep performance. Awards are given, votes are tallied, and regrets are had. Will Florence Foster Jenkins flourish or flounder? Will Sophie's Choice seal the deal? Tune in to find out!
In this BONUS episode, Don and Pat cover a trio of films that didn't make the bracket! Did A Cry in the Dark deserve A Spot in the Accents Division? Should we have let The River Wild paddle its way through the competition?? Is It's Complicated complicated enough to be a contender??? Be sure to listen to this ep and find out! WARNING: THIS EPISODE IS TANGENT HEAVY. I THINK WE HAVE A 15 MINUTE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE AARON SORKIN CHICAGO SEVEN MOVIE AT ONE POINT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Intro music: Cope by the Gigolo Aunts (The River Wild) Outro Music: Sanseverino by Mal ô mains (It's Complicated)
Ruha Taslimi (Blocks! Ghost!) joins Don and Pat to discuss a seminal work of fiction involving none other than the Streepster herself: Tony Kushner's Angels in America! Come for the heartfelt and in-depth discussion about the 20th century's greatest work of theatrical fiction, stay because this is an episode that features references to both Mike Nichols' Wit and George Lucas' Watto. There is a minor sound quality dip in the ep's latter third due to technical difficulties. However, the episode is still 100 percent listenable and, in fact, pretty dang good...
Can underdog Florence Foster Jenkins overcome the formidable Iron Lady? Is Midnight Cowboy a prequel to Hook?? Which one of the Mamma Mia! suitors do your intrepid hosts most identify with??? Please join Pat, Don, and special guest Becky Feldman (Too Stupid To Live!), as we determine which film moves to the final round on this week's The Academy Academy!
The Streep Semifinals have Patrick quoting Kierkegaard and Don experiencing an existential crisis! Join these brave scientists and special guest Nick Eliafan as they determine who gets to go to Paris and who gets to be conveniently hit by a bus on this week's The Academy Academy!
Silkwood! Heartburn!! Postcards from the Edge!!! Before heading off into the semi-finals, Pat and Don tackle the great Meryl Streep and Mike Nichols collaborations! Do we regret not putting these flicks on the bracket? Do we address how weirdly absent from streaming platforms Silkwood is? Do we bring up that infamous scene from Wolf where Jack Nicholson pees on James Spader's shoes?! All of the above, baby!!
We've got our first guest that's not a freak for Streep, in the form of the incendiary and entertaining Jesse Esparza (Mixed-Ish)! Can Don and Patrick convince Jesse to hop aboard the Streep train? Will Don think of the perfect Kramer vs. Kramer inspired 2D platformer?? Will Patrick confuse ol' octopus beard Davy Jones himself with Horatio from Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet in the biggest Tooch fiasco of all time??! Tune in and find out! (The conductor of the Streep train is of course Pepper. We love ya, Peps!)
It begins with the world's worst Stellan Skarsgård impression. It ends with a heartfelt thank you to Pepper- the Man, the Song, the Bad Reggae Band. Please join your intrepid hosts and famed treat-of-a-man Kyle Clark (This Is Rad! Everything Is Scary! Absolute Terror!), as we determine which musical masterpiece must move forward on this week's The Academy Academy!
ABBA music videos on Laserdisc? Namedropping every castmember of The Perfect Score's ensemble from memory?? New T-Shirt ideas?! This episode has it all! Join Don, Pat, and our exemplary guest Kristina Woo (Halston), as we determine if death will become of Death Becomes Her, or if The Devil Wears Prada will be dragged on down to the home of the devil himself (Hell)!
The victor of the Accents Bracket is determined today with Netflix Staff Writer Marcelina Chavira (@marc_o_lina)! This ep is a dang corker folks- strap in!! RIP Lil' Flaps 🙏
A New Year's Eve bonus episode, caloo calay! We discuss Let Them All Talk, The Prom, Frank Herbert's Murderer's Row of Hunks, and much, much more! Take this one to the Mank Bank, folks!
Listen, Fat- this is a podcast for the Vegas prognosticators, the tech-issue accepters, the Tom Hanks Da Vinci Code hair appreciators, and the proud people wanting to hear two dudes discuss Meryl Streep’s performance in Adaptation on the Tuesday after Christmas. #WeStandWithPepper
Donald, Patrick, and America's Favorite Mensch Adam Moshcatel (@Moshcatel) determine whether the best Streep performance lies in the biopic featuring an imaginary dead husband doing cringe-worthy bits, or the film where the film has a film within the film. Put on your finest podcast-listening suit and tune in, gentlefolk!
Florence Foster Jenkins or Ricki and The Flash? Did Meryl Streep star in Albert Knobbs?? Does Wes Scantlin know where to find the best Krokodil??? Join Patrick, Donald, and wonderful guest Blake Wilding (@blakewilding) on this week's ep to discover the answers to these oh so tantalizing questions!!
Lead Streep vs. Supporting Streep! Zemeckis vs. Brooks! Cynicism vs. Optimism! Donald, Patrick, and special guest Kevin Chu (The Ruby) determine which Streep performance shall move forward on this week's The Academy Academy!
Colonial coffee farms or parochial romance? Soppy Swedish scamps or reserved photographers of the Heartland? Join Patrick, Donald, and our wonderful guest Graham High (The Reagans, Manson Family Vacation, straight white guy listening), as we determine whether Bridges of Madison County or Out of Africa deserve to move on to the next bracket. And please... get some streep!
Instagram interactions with John Patrick Shanley! Attempts at divulging past ska dalliances foiled by technical errors! Movies that end with the protagonist stating its title! Don't have any doubts- this podcast has it all! Join Donald, Patrick, and Karina Wolfe (SWAT, A Song to Pass the Time), as we determine who shall move forward in this particularly competitive bracket between Doubt and Kramer vs. Kramer... oh, I have The Academy Academies!!
Make sure to grab some Pepper for this week's slice of Streep, as we discuss Mamma Mia! and Into The Woods with famed Cordenhead Avery Regen. And please, don't forget to leave an extra plate for Toomgis!
Chris Hemsworth Popeye! Stanley Tucci in a purple velvet Fedora! A Change Dot Org petition to replace the dancing baby in Ally McBeal with Paul Giamatti! That's just an amuse-bouche of the tangents we go on in this week's episode with our special guest, Everything Is Scary's Jen Saunderson!! A Quick Frankel!
Could Julie & Julia use a little more Julia and a little less Julie? Why does a movie called Sophie's Choice have so much Stingo? Will a certain co-host have to attend jury duty... during a pandemic?!! We discuss all of these things and more with our wonderful guest Lauren Scharf (Hot City at the The Pack Theater, @llcoolscharf on TikTok and Twitter) this week on The Academy Academy!
Don and Patrick explain the premise of The Academy Academy. We announce our first subject, Meryl Streep(!), and discuss the direct-elimination bracket that will determine her ultimate performance.
Unfortunately, one of the brackets is Kramer vs. Kramer VS Doubt, and not Kramer: The Story of Seinfeld's Kramer VS Kramer: The Story of Jim Kramer VS Doubt.
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