What is the value of teaching a mouse table manners? At what does introspection become self-indulgence? At what age do you stop being a wunderkind? 

We're covering the beginnings of Michel Gondry on this week's episode of The Academy Academy! Relax, take a seat in a chair that looks like a paper mache bumblebee, and enjoy!

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Would you hang out in someone's mind with Gary Sinise and Charlie Sheen for an eternity? Is the best music video of all time an hommage to 70s Cop Cinema? What crucial role did Martin Scorsese play in the making of Video Days?

Don Horatio Saunderson and Patrick "The Dubious Non-Welsher" Gremillion enter the world of Spike Jonze on this week's episode of The Academy Academy. The Trickster Iconoclast, The Non-Stop Artist, The Savvy Entrepreneur... follow us on a journey into this filmmaker's mind! Just make sure to enter it before midnight.

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It's another birthday ep, which means another deep dive into the oeuvre of another fascinating arthouse filmmaker!

Urban Isolation, Rural Malaise, and the Nature of Evil are just a few of the subjects Nuri Bilge Ceylan tackles in his works. He luxuriates in the vast snow-covered topographies of Anatolia, and in the way relics of the past pepper Ceylan's cinematic landscapes, so too are his films pockmarked with moments of shock and awe that transcend the slow cinema scenery and erudite conversation. Challenge yourself! Watch these films and grow! And remember: every culture has a Cool Horse Guy. 🐎

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Apologies for the late release, but hooboy this is a fun ep! What's worse: a truly awful film, or a merely disappointing one? Should Tobey Maguire get the Thousand Face surgery? Is Jürgen Prochnow what you have at home when you ask mom for Udo Kier and mom says "honey, we have Udo Kier at home"?! Tune in as Don & Pat gush about all things Dafoe on this week's The Academy Academy!

We recorded this podcast at 6:30 AM.

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Would you pay $200 to see The Killer be a contestant on Love Is Blind? Do you pray to a gas station boiled egg? Is you favorite Guy Ritchie flick Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Aliens?! It's the finale to our Fincher miniseries, folks. We talk The Killer, and rate the Fincher filmography? Will Mank take it to the bank? And just how curious did we find Benjamin Button's case? Tune in to find out!

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Should Unforgiven be remade starring Will Forte as MacGruber? Should the next Equalizer take place in French Canada? Is Ultimate Sicko Pervert a compliment?! Don & Pat's Fuqua miniseries comes to a close on this week's Academy Academy, as we discuss the simple pleasures of the Equalizer franchise, attempt to sum up the director's career, and provide our rankings of the films that collectively comprise the Fuqua oeuvre.

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Does the story of Mank start in 1863? Does cynicism kill the artist within you? Are they selling Cool Ranch Dorito Soda at the Victorville Taco Bell?! We discuss William Randolph Hearst, Orson Welles, auteur theory, Raising Kane, The Kane Mutiny, people as brands, spiritual Big Boys, and so much more on this must-listen episode of The Academy Academy!

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We're covering Emancipation this week's episode of The Academy Academy. We attempt to keep this ep light on spoofs and goofs, although that doesn't stop us from hoping that the Chris Rock-directed remake of Another Round will star Adam Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, and Rob Schneider.

Enjoy!

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Two episodes in one day? Mamma Mia! 

Don & Pat talk Gone Girl on this week's The Academy Academy. Is Ben Affleck's portrayal of Nick Dunne his greatest performance? Which pod co-host owns a poster of Author! Author!? Which film critic most resembles Bradley Whitford's character in Get Out?

Tune in to find out!

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