Darryl and Laura chat about Toy Story - The American Film Institute's # 99 Film on their revised list. They talk about how hard it is to go back and revisit something's beginnings.
Editing the Academy: Best Picture Nominees of 2015 Part 2
26/05/2026 | 58min
Join Darryl and Laura as they review the second half of movies nominated for Best Picture in 2015, and reveal whether or not they agree with the Academy:
Birdman
Boyhood
Selma
Whiplash
Reminder: MAJOR Spoilers for all movies!
Yankee Doodle Dandy - The AFI top 100 - # 98
22/05/2026 | 11min
Laura and Darryl review Yankee Doodle Dandy, the American Film Institute's (Revised) #98 film of all time. it's a bit of a weird one y'all. Settle in.
#americanfilminstitute #yankeedoodle #jamescagney
Editing the Academy: 2015 Best Picture Nominees Part 1
11/05/2026 | 50min
In this episode, Darryl and Laura discuss the best picture nominees of 2015 and rank the films. And as always they ask the question, did the Academy choose the best picture?
American Sniper
Imitation Game
The Theory Of Everything
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Major Spoilers for all!
Editing the Academy: Ben-Hur
06/05/2026 | 14min
Join Darryl and Laura as they start watching movies from the AFI Top 100 movie list.
#100 on the list was Ben-Hur which received mixed reviews. See who you agree with!
Two friends get together to discuss the best picture nominees of each year starting in 1969. We discuss each nominated film in detail breaking down the technical aspects, character development, acting, story presentation, etc. But, we also chat about how they hit us...our emotional reactions.
We try hard to let our modern filters fade and put ourselves in the mind frame of the year of release, but we’ll admit...it’s hard.
So join us as we dive deep in these films and discuss whether academy made the correct choice that year.
Feel free to join in the discussIO and agree or disagree, we only ask that you do so respectfully.
Oh, and yeah...major spoilers for each film.
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