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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.
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Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
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 Academy!
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
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!!
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
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 hosts had the opportunity to meet the fabled Rudy Ray Moore in the flesh?! This is how the cookie crumbles: welcome to Bruce Almighty town!
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
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, bigger fans of The Fan on this week's The Academy Academy!
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
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 that has won a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival? Does Don actually own a dang plum or is that just the title of an unreleased film?! Tune in and find out on Season 3 of The Academy Academy!
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
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!
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
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 Way on this week's The Academy Academy!
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
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!
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
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 Academy Academy!
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
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 button and listen, folks!