What if that fatherly figure in your office turned out to be the ultimate killing machine? What if that guy helping you train to be a volunteer fireman was secretly a whiz at setting booby traps? Don & Pat are discussing Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer on this week's The Academy Academy, an eminently entertaining film that dares to ask the question: "What if the guy from Man on Fire was just a cool dude and everything he did was cool?"

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Which cavalcade of cinematic luminaries was originally attached to direct The Curious Case of Benjamin Button before Fincher? What is the dastardly Jigsaw's favorite television commercial? Which middlebrow feature inspired a restaurant chain (hint: it wasn't Meet Joe Black)? All these questions and more are answered on this week's The Academy Academy!

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Is Mike Banning more unhinged than Bobby Lee Swagger? Should they team up? Was the screenplay for Olympus Has Fallen written on a napkin at a Joe's Crab Shack in 1983 (I swear I am asking this question in a complimentary fashion)? Is Gerard Butler the last of the great Beefcake B-Movie Actors?  Tune in as we continue our high-octane ride down the Fuqua Freeway on this week's The Academy Academy!

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Does your secretary require a screaming booth? Is there more than one way to lose your life to a serial killer? Would you watch a Mission Impossible film directed by David Fincher? Would you watch an Intolerable Cruelty written by Donald Trump Jr.? Don & Pat have finally reached Zodiac on this week's The Academy Academy! Enjoy! 

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Out of all the movies we've watched... whooda thought this'd be the one we'd return to?? 

Feelin' Warm? Feelin' Norm. G-Off Spencer. Hyperlink Cinema. Whiskey Before Pistol? Chekov's Bolito. Five Stages of Grief, but 3 Types of Sad. Is The Pest John Leguizamo's Sophie's Choice? Is Tenet a film about two buds having a good time? If you want any of this word salad to make sense, you better listen to this week's episode of The Academy Academy!

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Holy crap, Lois- shadowy government organizations are trying to take my life! Don & Pat are talking about Shooter on this week's The Academy Academy. Bob Lee Swagger. Nick Memphis. Ethiopian Archbishop Desmond Mutumbo. This is a movie filled with great names, insane conspiratorial setpieces, and exploding cans of Beef Stew. Is Shooter a waste of Dinty Moore or an exemplary example of New Dad Cinema? Tune in to find out!

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Would you like to know which hotshot Hollywood screenwriters are best friends? Do you yearn to hear the ballad of Dallas Howard? Was there almost an Alien with genitals? Does your toddler attend the same elite private school as the grandchild of Danny Collins?

All these questions and more will be answered as Don & Pat aka The Dancer & The Monologist discuss the few remaining Alien films untouched by the pod (until now!) on this week's Halloween episode of The Academy Academy! 

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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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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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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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