The Academy Academy

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!!!...

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

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!   If you are a fan of...

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

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!   If yo...

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

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!   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...

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 discus...

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 P...

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 twis...

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 c...

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

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!  ...

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

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...

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 C...

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 un...

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'...

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...

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

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 NAM...

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...

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...

We're finally here, folks. Your 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 a...

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