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The Academy Academy
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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.
Episodes
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Our Feature Presentation: More Dalliances with De Palma (Greetings, and Hi, Mom!)
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Sisters)
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Hollywood in the Seventies Part 4: Five Easy Pieces and Shampoo)
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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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Hollywood in the Seventies Part 3: Little Murders and Carnal Knowledge
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…
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (New Hollywood in the Seventies Part 2: Mickey One and The Rain People)
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...
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Catching Up: 5 Things We've Watched
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! If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to...
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We're Back! A Belated Birthday Eric Roberts Ep: The Pope of Greenwich Village and The Coca Cola Kid
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. If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your…
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (New Hollywood in the Seventies: Easy Rider and M*A*S*H)
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Second-String Samurai Part 3: Death Race 2000 and Hollywood Boulevard)
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Second-String Samurai Part 2: Supervixens and Alligator)
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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Bonus Episode: Long Time, No See (A History of Violence and Triangle of Sadness)
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. To support the...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Second-String Samurai Part 1: Caged Heat and Halloween)
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...
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Top 10 Films of 2024
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. If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send...
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Don, Pat, and Returning Champ Jesse Gantt’s 2024 Cinematic Discoveries
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Extra Credit: Point Blank and Walking Tall)
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!! If you are a fan of the...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (The Outfit)
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! If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and…
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Extra Credit: Bonnie & Clyde and The Driver)
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...
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A Dash of Dafoe #4: Streets of Fire and Spider-Man with Special Guests Elena Martinez and Jack Seavor McDonald
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (The Getaway)
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! If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on...
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Probably the Coolest Guy: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid & Semi-Tough)
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Extra Credit: Macon County Line and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
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…
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Deliverance)
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! If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send us an email at...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Extra Credit: Death Wish and Straw Dogs)
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…
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Dirty Harry)
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Extra Credit: The Detective and The French Connection)
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! If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a…
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Bullitt)
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Extra Credit: Black Gunn and The Bus Is Coming)
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...
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Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Little Q Watching Big Movies - Joe and Where's Poppa?)
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...
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Schlesinger in America: Part 3 (Marathon Man and Honky Tonk Freeway)
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…
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Schlesinger in America: Part 2 (The Day of the Locust)
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...
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Schlesinger in America: Part 1 (Midnight Cowboy)
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…
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Comedy Without Jokes: The Works of Paul Mazursky (Blume in Love, An Unmarried Woman, Willie & Phil)
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...
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You're Gonna See Something Good: A Tribute to Donald Sutherland (Alex in Wonderland, Ordinary People)
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…
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Academy Academy Classic: Brooks/Brooks: Modern Romance and Terms of Endearment
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...
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Academy Academy Classic: The Brest Years of Our Lives: Downfall (Gigli)
We have to go back to the Baywatch :( If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send us an email at [email protected] or message us on Twitter at @TheAcadAcad.
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Academy Academy Classic: The James Cameron Palate Cleanser - Beginnings (Piranha II: The Spawning and The Terminator)
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...
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Academy Academy Classic: Heat vs. The Insider with Jessica Svendsgaard
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…
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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - An Academy Academy Miniseries: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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…
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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - An Academy Academy Miniseries: Three Kings and Adaptation
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...
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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - An Academy Academy Miniseries: Jackass: The Movie
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...
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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - An Academy Academy Miniseries: Assorted Michel Gondry Music Videos, Human Nature
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...
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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - A Spike Jonze Miniseries: Video Days, Assorted Music Videos, Being John Malkovich
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"…
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Nobody Is Having a Good Time in Anatolia: The Works of Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Distant (Uzak), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, and Winter Sleep
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...
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A Dash of Dafoe #3: Shadow of the Vampire, Auto Focus, and The Florida Project
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"?!...
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A Return to Ridley: Napoleon
We recorded this podcast at 6:30 AM. If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send us an email at [email protected] Also, feel free to message us on Twitter at @TheAcadAcad
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You Want It Darker: A David Fincher Miniseries Finale - The Killer
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...
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The Equalizer: The Antoine Fuqua Story Finale - The Equalizer 3
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…
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You Want It Darker: A David Fincher Miniseries - Mank
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...
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The Equalizer: The Antoine Fuqua Story Part 12 - Emancipation
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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You Want It Darker: A David Fincher Miniseries - Gone Girl
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...
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