I'm excited to see it tonight as part of the SF Film Festival, at the Grand Lake in Oakland.

Sorry To Bother You was weird as hell in all the best ways. And in hindsight feels extremely prescient in its assessment of big tech’s attitude towards their workers.
Also, Lakeith Stanfield was great. I’ll definitely be watching this.

This looks great!

Also, Boots Riley wasn't that quiet, he did a series for Amazon called I'm A Virgo which was just as weird, if not more so.

Boots is going to work on a film adaptation of the bonkers "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" and I cannot wait. My wife and I saw a college production of it a few years ago and we still talk about it all the time.

Here's a profile of Riley in this week's New Yorker.

Riley saw “Boosters” as his best chance to infiltrate the mainstream. He’d spent decades as a critics’ darling, first in music and then in film and TV; in Oakland, he was perfectly in synch, a Marxist bohemian auteur-virtuoso whose class-war themes were native to the culture. Now his goal was to blast “Boosters” far beyond that radius, turning it into a summer blockbuster, a popcorn hit with a revolutionary heart.

Riley did a TV show in between these two movies, I'm A Virgo. Worth checking out!

I appreciated this review-ish piece by Lydia Polgreen about I Love Boosters.

Shoplifting, after all, is regarded as a particularly pernicious crime, as close to pure selfishness as one can get. By stealing items most people simply pay for, shoplifters shift the cost of their greedy unwillingness to follow the rules onto everyone else. This basic violation of the social contract would strike anyone as wrong. In recent years, this moral objection has risen to panic as retailers have claimed that gangs of shoplifters have caused huge losses and forced them to close stores.

In business terms, it isn’t that simple. TJ Maxx was at the center of the shoplifting panic. An analysis of its parent company’s accounts showed that though theft had whittled its margins by about 0.3 percentage points, other costs — including higher spending on shipping and markdowns of unsold merchandise — took away four times as much. In other words, the company’s leaders bought things consumers didn’t want and paid more to ship them.

Despite those missteps, the chief executive of TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx, saw his pay rise 23 percent, not adjusted for inflation, between 2019 and 2024. Over that period, the company spent more than $11 billion buying back shares of its own stock, a common method of rewarding shareholders and plumping the wallets of executives paid handsomely in company stock. That helped the chief executive make 1,565 times as much as the company’s median employee. To paraphrase Bertolt Brecht, what is the robbing of a retail store compared to the founding of a retail empire?