I’ve been tied up with the latest Decades series for the past few weeks, so I never got a chance to chime in on the Oscars. Don’t worry, that ship has sailed, and I don’t plan to revisit this year’s Academy Awards at this point.
But I did want to take a minute to acknowledge one of my favorite moments from the ceremony: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s performance of ‘Shallow.’
Every year, the biggest award contenders are invariably rolled out to the masses in December, if we’re lucky. More often, they open in select cities in the last few weeks of the year and people in, say, Boynton Beach, Florida, don’t get to see them until January or even February.
That’s the situation we find ourselves in once again this year. Of the films I’ve seen so far, only The Dark Knight and Rachel Getting Married have any realistic shot at Best Picture. And I haven’t missed anything that’s in the running (save for Milk, which has been on such a slow rollout in this area that I’ve been unable to find a theater playing it for two weeks now).
So here’s a look at the films I’ve yet to see in the order I want to see them:
Meet Me In Montauk 