There are plenty of storylines heading into the 88th annual Oscars, aka the second annual #OscarsSoWhite.
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Chris Rock’s monologue at Sunday’s Oscars ought to kill. Given the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, no host has ever been this primed to blow the roof off the Academy Awards.
The cast of the crooked-cop drama “Triple 9” boasts an Oscar winner and three other nominees, a three-time Emmy winner and an additional nominee, an Avenger, a member of the Justice League and the breakout star of “The Walking Dead.” The lesson? Everybody has bills to pay.
In this era of #OscarsSoWhite, should moviegoers clamoring for diversity be satisfied when Hollywood offers them anything at all? Or is it too much to want those morsels to be better — terrific, even — so that they could actually find themselves in the mix for future Oscars?
It’s not too late to start your Oscar prep by catching up on a whole year’s worth of movies in time for Chris Rock to skewer them when he hosts the Academy Awards on Feb. 28.
He drops F-bombs and bodies in equal measure. His nonstop snark — “I’m about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the ’90s” — makes Iron Man sound as bland as Captain America. And he’s briefly shown pleasuring himself while holding a stuffed unicorn.
“Trumbo” put a serious face on the plight of Communists working in 1950s Hollywood. Opening Friday, Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Hail, Caesar!” paints that face with clown makeup and makes it do a spit take.