Editing The Academy

Listen in as Darryl and Laura discuss the best picture nominees of 1983: E.T. The Extraterrestrial Gandhi Missing The Verdict Tootsie This was a strange year, and we will debate not only whether the right movie won, but whether the right movies were even nominated.  Major spoilers for all! Please remember to follow, like and subscribe! 

Laura loves a good gangster movie and explains why this Scorsese classic is one of her favorites.  Darryl agrees, and discussion of tracking shots, guns in your face, crazy fast pacing and Another World's Joey Perrini ensues.

Welcome to Laura and Darryl's discussion of the movies of 1981 (nominated for Best Picture in 1982). This year it was difficult to compare the films as we had historical epics v. popcorn films v. Oscar bait. Major Spoilers for all the films! Atlantic City Chariots Of Fire On Golden Pond REDS Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Join in the discussion of "The Legend of 1900", a modern fable about a baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 who grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land. Never heard of it? It is one of Darryl's favorites and just might become one of yours too! MAJOR SPOILERS!

Welcome to our conversation about the movies nominated for the 1981 best picture that were released in 1980. It was a time when men were pretty awful, suburban mothers were cold, and it was rough to be a poor woman from the country or disfigured.  The movies were: The Elephant Man Raging Bull Tess Coal Miner's Daughter Ordinary People Major Spoilers for all movies! Please join us as we discuss whe...

Darryl discusses why Monty Python is so important to comedy, this movie in particular, and Laura chimes in, a lot, she just can't help herself as she is such a fan as well. So we'll forgive her. This time.

We have a very special guest this time! Our friend Becca loves the movie Scream, possibly even more than Laura. Becca shares a ton of interesting facts about the movie and adds quite a bit to our podcast. We were honored to have her. This one is Laura's #16 and it's all about horror movies and playing with, what in 1996 was a rather stale genre. Enjoy!   #editingtheacademy #scream

The End of a decade. Congrats to us for reviewing a full decade of films! (Yeah, congratulate us dammit!) Anyway, the nominated films released in 1979 are: All That Jazz Breaking Away Kramer Vs. Kramer Norma Rae Apocalypse Now

Listen in on why Laura thinks this Jane Austen adaptation is one of the best movies out there.  Romantic, funny, well-paced, beautiful costumes and a behind-the-scenes love affair that has lasted for decades. It's no wonder that Emma Thompson is her friendship crush and Laura confesses that she wants to hang out with her and drink margaritas!  Major Spoilers (for a 200 year old book, so that's rea...

The Best Picture winner of 2022 is also one of Darryl's favorites. It's a beautiful movie, and if you haven't seen it already, please go check out CODA! Major Spoilers for all aspects of the movie 

You love us and you know it, so show some love, comment, like, subscribe! Alright - the nominated films are: Coming Home Deer Hunter Heaven Can Wait Midnight Express An Unmarried Woman

Come listen as Laura defends why Gone With the Wind #GWTW is her 18th favorite movie of all time while she dances around NOT defending the problematic movie itself. #MelanieWilkesForever As always, Major Spoilers and let us know your thoughts!

Come find out why Everything Everywhere All at Once #EEAAO is Darryl's #18 favorite movie of all time!  As always, Major Spoilers and let us know your thoughts!

So we know it gets confusing with the year we're talking about. So this epsiode talks about the films released in 1977 where the winner was presented at the 1978 Academy Awards. Got it? Good(ish). The films: Annie Hall Goodbye Girl Julia Star Wars The Turning Point Please, please please, drop us a comment. We really do want to hear your feedback. We want to make the channel the best it can be, but...

Laura talks about why The Great Escape is her # 19 pick of all time. Darryl thinks part of the end is a comedy, and she corrects him. Quite firmly. 

Darryl defends why #casablanca is one of the greatest films of all time. Laura agrees and (tries to) defend why she had never watched it before.  As always, Major Spoilers and let us know your thoughts!

Here we go again...1976 MAJOR SPOILERS The films: Bound For Glory All The Presidents Men Network Taxi Driver Rocky A pretty iconic slate, except for Bound for Glory which we still haven't seen because we couldn't find it anywhere! If you know where we can watch it, let us know in the comments!  As always please like and subscribe and recommend us to a friend!