Editing The Academy

Join Laura and Darryl as they discuss the movies nominated for Best Picture of 987: A Room With A View Children Of A Lesser God Hannah And Her Sisters The Mission Platoon Loads of spoilers!

Join Laura, Darryl and their special guest Lisa as they discuss the 1944 Frank Capra directed classic Arsenic and Old Lace.  With Cary Grant leading a perfectly cast group of oddballs, this dark, screwball, romantic comedy defies genre. While it is one of Laura and Lisa's favorite movies, Darryl talks about watching the movie for the very first time.  Major Spoilers for the movie (and this time it...

Listen in as Darryl and Laura discuss the Best Picture Nominees of 1986 and decide whether or not they got it right: Prizzi's Honor Witness The Color Purple Kiss Of The Spider Woman Out Of Africa  Major Spoilers for all movies! 

Darryl's Top twenty # 13 is not for everyone. It's a quirky 100% 70's film, but man oh man does it make him smile. Plus, Ruth Gordon in her best role ever. Everyone deserves a Maude in their life. MAJOR SPOILERS for the film.  Like, follow, subscribe and learn about a film you may have never even heard about in the process.

Welcome to Editing the Academy! This week Darryl and Laura discuss the Best Picture nominees of 1985 (released in 1984): Passage to India Places in the Heart The Killing Fields Amadeus A Soldier’s Story Major spoilers for all the movies! Oh, and the list Darryl reads of other movies released this year, was actually a list of movies released in the next year, so you can kind of ignore that part. He...

Listen in as Laura and Darryl gush about Laura's #14 movie of all time, Wonder Boys! It's an amazing example of why certain movies are just so much better than others, and one of the few book adaptations that translates into a great movie. Comment if you agree (or don't). Either way, go read the phenomenal Michael Chabon novel. #wonderboys MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE AND BOOK 

Listen in as Darryl and Laura discuss the Best Picture nominees of 1984 that were released in 1983, and how they both watched Terms of Endearment, but apparently saw two different movies. As always, major spoilers for: The Dresser The Right Stuff Tender Mercies Terms of Endearment, and The Big Chill And yes, Laura would still happily watch Robert Duvall read a telephone book for two hours.

Listen in as Darryl shares one of his favorite movies - a dark romantic comedy starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell and Tim Roth. This was Laura's first time watching it, but she agreed that if you haven't already seen this gem, you should rush to do so! Major Spoilers! 

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!