Boots Riley came out swinging after Martin Scorsese announced his involvement with the AI company Black Forest Labs on Tuesday, guessing that the filmmaker joined the firm as an advisor to help provide for his family and that Scorsese “doesn’t give a fuck” since he thinks AI will “fall on its face anyway.” The “I […]
As Martin Scorsese embraces artificial intelligence (AI) in Hollywood, his filmmaking peers are reacting to the Oscar winner’s new role. Boots Riley recently criticized Scorsese for his “attempt to push the industry toward” genAI with his advisor position at AI firm Black Forest Labs, suggesting he only joined the company for the money. “My guess: […]
It’s been eight long years since Boots Riley’s directorial debut (Sorry to Bother You) surprised and delighted moviegoers. Does his follow-up deliver on color, comedy, and chaos? We’ve got Black People Love Paramore’ s Ryann Graham with us to discuss I Love Boosters. Then, we talk about how some of the sci-fi tech from this film might be deployed in other movies! What’s Good Alonso -…
Director Boots Riley tells IndieWire about getting inventive with miniatures and stop-motion to make the fullest version of his fashionable call for a General Strike.
Eiza González stars in Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters as Violeta and, following its premiere, shared praise for the filmmaker. After the Neon film, which stars Keke Palmer, González took to social media to express her thoughts on the filmmaker and the movie. “I Love Boosters is a movie I love deeply for many reasons,” González shared […]
Boots Riley was recently asked on X why he chose to premiere I Love Boosters at SXSW rather than Cannes. He acknowledged that Cannes rejected the film, as well as several of his previous works. Sorry To Bother You, his 2018 dark comedy feature premiered at Sundance where it received the Sundance Institute’s Vanguard Award. […]
Neon may be the toast of Cannes — again — after landing its seventh consecutive Palme d’Or on Saturday thanks to “Fjord,” but according to Boots Riley, the distributor could have had another hot film in its 2026 lineup. With the musician and filmmaker’s latest movie “I Love Boosters” having hit cinemas on May 22, Riley has […]
Writer and director Boots Riley tells IndieWire why "pulling a Peter Greenaway" is important to creating the visual stories he wants to tell.
Neon’s surreal crime comedy I Love Boosters opens wide for the Memorial Day holiday frame a bit crowded with The Mandalorian And Grogu, Focus Features’ breakout Obsession and studio holdovers. Boosters reviews are great and director Boots Riley urged fans to turn out. “We didn’t get the screen count we wanted for I Love Boosters […]
In this exclusive, Boots Riley and the cast of “I Love Boosters” open up about the urgent message behind the
Exclusive: The stars of Neon’s anti-capitalist comedy will personally refuel the first 70 cars at a West Pico Shell station tomorrow morning.
Boots Riley made his directorial debut with the totally weirdo (complimentary) movie Sorry to Bother You in 2018. He’s been quiet since then, but he’s back with a new comedy, I Love Boosters. This looks great. From a review on Letterboxd:
Maximalist social commentary delivered with anime action and colourful high strangeness. Did it kind of fall off the rails towards the end? Absolutely. Was…
Boots Riley made his directorial debut with the totally weirdo (complimentary) movie Sorry to Bother You in 2018. He’s been quiet since then, but he’s back with a new comedy, I Love Boosters. This looks great. From a review on Letterboxd:
Maximalist social commentary delivered with anime action and colourful high strangeness. Did it kind of fall off the rails towards the end? Absolutely. Was…
(Updated from March 30 with more signatories) Days after another round of No Kings! protests brought Robert De Niro, Jana Fonda, Jimmy Kimmel, Bruce Springsteen and millions more out on the streets to rally against Donald Trump, some of the same celebs and others are seeking to have an immigration detention facility in Texas shut […]
Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore.
Following his directorial debut Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley is back with his follow-up I Love Boosters. Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore, the film opened SXSW this month to a strong response. Ahead of a May 22 release, NEON has now […]
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A parody of dialectical materialism (you’ll understand what this means when you see the film), superficial economies, and the cult of fast fashion, I Love Boosters—the second feature from rapper, activist, and filmmaker Boots Riley—proves a spirited and hilarious comedy in its first two acts before falling back on action-comedy tropes in its finale. Perhaps […]
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Writer-director Boots Riley kicked off the 40th SXSW film and television festival in Austin with a surreal, hyperpop love letter to creatives living under capitalism. In I Love Boosters, Corvette (Keke Palmer), Sade (Naomi Ackie) and Mariah (Taylour Paige) squat in an abandoned chicken restaurant while they make a living by stealing designer goods and […]
“I Love Boosters” might have had the makings of a more conventional commercial comedy, but the way Riley works it's like a deliberately ticky-tacky version of “The Devil Wears Prada” meets “Set It Off” meets “Ghostbusters.”
SXSW: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, and Demi Moore are all deeply attuned to Riley's weird rhythms, even as his high-concept sci-fi ideas grow scattershot.
Exclusive: After opening this year's SXSW Film Festival with his sophomore feature, Riley will hit the road to share the film with young audiences.
“Sorry to Bother You” filmmaker Boots Riley’s latest feature film, “I Love Boosters,” is set to premiere on the West Coast as the Centerpiece of the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival. The screenings will take place April 28 at Oakland’s historic Grand Lake Theatre, where Riley will appear for an onstage conversation. “I Love […]