The Academy Academy

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. Slo...

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 Ja...

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 tur...

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 🎵   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  theac...

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

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

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 H...

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 o...

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 Just...

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!   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 a...

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

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...

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!   If you are a fa...

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!   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  o...

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

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 wil...

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

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...

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...

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 t...

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-ben...

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 th...

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...

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 m...

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 angril...