Read the complete story The Oscars may celebrate some of a single year’s best movie-making, but they’re also to blame for the fact that there’s not a whole lot of stuff in theaters that anyone actually wants to see in the two months leading up to the Academy Awards, also known as Hollywood’s “dump months.” (Unless, of course, you were one of the eight people anxiously awaiting the release of I, Frankenstein.) But that’s in theaters—in living rooms and on laptops there are plenty of good flicks to take in.