Oh yeah, the Academy Awards are going to be handed out tonight. As is normally the case, I haven't seen any of the nominated films. I don't know how many of them got shown at the local dump of a sixtyplex we have around here. And as someone whose normal work shift is 6-2:30, I'm generally more up for a matinee, which takes the local independent theaters right out. Well, that and the in-your-face tedious politics.
As I understand it, the main competition this year is whether the Academy will vote for the movie that allows them to virtue signal their politics on immigration, or to virtue signal ticking off the demographic check box. Except everybody's talking about the Shakespearean-era period piece for Best Actress, and, I'd guess, the technical categories like Costume Design.
In any case, tonight being the awards presentation also means it's the final night of 31 Days of Oscar on TCM, which means they're getting back to "regular" programming and the various spotlights. There's actually going to be a Star of the Month, which I'll get to later in the week when that comes up.
I mentioned the 1930s version of Last of the Mohicans last week as the movie that TCM was going to be running during the time change to Daylight Savings Time. Sure enough, when I checked my DVR, it turned out that the recording of Last of the Mohicans was only 45 minutes when it should have been in a 1:45 slot. It's still available on the Watch TCM app until the end of the month, so hopefully I should get around to watching it.
Also, as always, I've got a backload of posts, and then sometimes after writing a post I see the advanced TCM schedule has a movie I've posted about coming up that I haven't scheduled yet so I have to juggle the scheduling of movies around to put up a post in conjunction with the upcoming airing. So whenever I put up a post that says a movie is running that night or the next day, check the listings.
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