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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!   If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang So...

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!   If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send...

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!   If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jin...

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! If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and...

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!   If you are a fan of the pod...

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 send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send us an email at  theacade...

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 unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send us an email at  theacademyacademypodcast@gmail....

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...

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 Fi...

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! To support the campaign: https://seedandspark.com/fund/long-time-no-see To follow our progress on I...

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 fundraising campaign: https://seedandspark.com/fund/long-time-no-see To follow our progress on Instagram: htt...

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...

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 your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send us an email at theacademyacademyp...

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...

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 pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send u...

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 Jingle All the Way, send us an email at  theacademyacademypodcast@gmail.com  or message us on Twitter at @...

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!   If you are a fan of the pod and/or...

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 Augu...

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 Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send us an email at  theacademyacademypodcast@gmail.com  or mess...

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 Cobu...

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!   If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send y...

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  theacademyacademypodcast@gmail.com  or message us on Twitter at @TheAcadAcad.

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! If you are a fan of the pod and/or need a place to send your unfiltered takes o...

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...

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 place to send your unfiltered takes on Hong-sang Soo and Jingle All the Way, send us an email at  theaca...