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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 Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
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't you see I'm trying to sleep? Yeesh.
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Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
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 waves in Steampunk Serfer? Is Hadrian's Wall a Top 10 Wall? Tune in and find out! #NameOurBastards
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Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
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!
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Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
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 NAME WAS DENIS LEARY!!
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Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
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 Academy Academy!
#WhereIsMank
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#WhereIsMank
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
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 on this week's ep!
The Academy Academy ain't going away!
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Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
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 and ascend to Elysium on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
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!
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Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
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. Slowly inch away from the guy only wearing underpants monologuing at you about Anselm and give this a listen instead!
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Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
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 Jack Office.... listen to this week's The Academy Academy instead!
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