The Academy Academy

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. 

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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 Academy!

 

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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.

 

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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, a pizza, and a copy of Lethal Weapon on VHS? Tune in to find out!

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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!!

 

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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!

 

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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!

 

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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 August, so there may be a rogue discrepancy here or there. Enjoy... and get me a picture of that hot dog!

 

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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!

 

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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 Coburn considered to be "The most evil m&@!cker to work in this business" on this week's The Academy Academy! I don't think Coburn is talking the ice cream business, folks...

 

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