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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 Acade...

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 L...

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 Acad...

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 host...

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, bigge...

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 th...

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 W...

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...

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...

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). 

  🎵 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 🎵

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...

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 po...

We have to go back to the Baywatch :(