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Keke Palmer in Boots Riley’s Anti-Capitalist Comedy

Keke Palmer in Boots Riley’s Anti-Capitalist Comedy

Published by Daniella Wilson

Boots Riley, the punkish filmmaker behind Sorry to Bother You and Amazon’s I’m a Virgo, has a proven knack for creating surreal realities that feel truer, somehow, than the ones we can see outside our window. His latest feature, I Love Boosters, is set in a version of the Bay Area where the floors of an office are tilted at a 45-degree angle, where a demon sucks the souls out of people by going down on them, where a teleportation device shows great promise as a way for retailers to cut down shipping costs. But watching it feels less like being transported into a different universe than putting on X-ray goggles to look at our own — and finding, buried under all the frustration and despair, a joyful and unruly sense of hope. I Love Boosters The Bottom Line Wild, weird and delightfully unique. Venue: SXSW Film Festival (Headliner)Release date: Friday, May 22Cast: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Demi MooreDirector-screenwriter: Boots Riley Rated R, 1 hour …

Keke Palmer in Boots Riley’s Anti-Capitalist Comedy

Keke Palmer, Demi Moore in Boots Riley Movie

Published by Daniella Wilson

Keke Palmer has a unique plan in mind for Demi Moore‘s cutting-edge apparel in the trailer for I Love Boosters. Neon is set to release writer-director Boots Riley‘s feature in theaters May 22 after its forthcoming premiere at the SXSW Film and Television Festival in Austin. Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter and Don Cheadle round out the cast. I Love Boosters centers on Corvette (Palmer), the leader of a group of women targeting a trendy fashion mogul (Moore) as they aim to shoplift from the designer’s stores and sell the high-end clothes at a discounted rate. “I shop here a lot, and I feel like I should have it all,” Palmer says in the trailer. “I just want to take it all home, heat it up and shoot it out my eyes. I just feel like, ‘Give it to me. It’s mine anyway.’” Later, Moore declares, “They take my shit and sell it because they’re low-class urban bitches — with all due respect to urban bitches.” Riley, known …