
‘I Love Boosters’ Is Not the Critique of Capitalism It Claims to Be
Director Boots Riley and critics interpret I Love Boosters as an anti-capitalist, if not revolutionary, tale. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Director Boots Riley and critics interpret I Love Boosters as an anti-capitalist, if not revolutionary, tale. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Kill the clichés. Rebel artfully. Writer-director-musician Boots Riley talks with PopMatters about empowering the power of Art.

With Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley announces himself as a filmmaker to watch with an explosive racial satire that’s as unforgettable as they come.
First-time directors Boots Riley and Carlos López Estrada tackle racial identity in radically different ways.

Watching a brilliant, teenage Biggie rhyme on a Brooklyn street corner in Freestyle, you can appreciate that documentation is at once contradictory and ambitious, futile and crucial.