Column: In the blur of awards season, let those strange and unfamiliar movie titles be an invitation

You hear it a lot this time of year: the jokes and audible eye rolls about some strange, obscure little nothing of an arthouse movie winning best this or best that.

Some said that in early 2020 when a film from South Korea triumphed at the Oscars. That was “Parasite” and it was, in fact, a big hit all over the world. But there are facts and there are feelings, and when some folks feel out of the loop when it comes to films they haven’t heard about and may never want to get to know, there’s nothing to be done.