Tag: Lakeith Stanfield
Shoplifters Unite: Boots Riley Pickpockets Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield & Demi Moore for ‘I Love Boosters’
Musician turned filmmaker Boots Riley is set to begin production on that always critical sophomore feature with a quartet of players that include muse...
The Harder They Fall [Video Review]
Zest of the West: Samuels’ Western Soap Opera Long on Style, Short on Substance
In a film which plays as both recuperation and revisionism,...
Judas and the Black Messiah | Review
Only God Forgives: King Resurrects Fred Hampton in Significant, Unequivocal Portrait of Betrayal and Assassination
On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, chairman of the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #20. Josh & Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems
For their fourth feature film, Josh & Benny Safdie parlayed the success of Good Time into a feature with Adam Sandler in the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #76. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson – Someone Great
Considered ahead of its time, writer-director-producer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson parlayed her canceled MTV’s Sweet/Vicious gig into a directorial debut featuring the likes of Brittany Snow,...
Sorry to Bother You | Review
Unbridled Creativity: No one is Safe from Riley’s Wackadoo Satire ... Himself Included
There is nothing subtle in Boots Riley's Sorry To Bother You. A singular,...
Interview: Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Writer/Director Boots Riley is no stranger to pushing boundaries. A longtime political activist-rapper, he has already made his bones in music, founding the renowned...
Interview: Omari Hardwick – Sorry to Bother You
Among the cast of misfit supporting characters in Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You we find Omari Hardwick's take on true corporate ladder machiavellianism...
Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You | 2018 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere
Perhaps the most hyped film to premiere at this year's Sundance film festival, the over-sold world preem screening at the Library had plenty of...
Come Sunday | Review
Preaching to the Choir: Marston Tackles Modern Heresy in Orthodox Glance at Evangelical Hypocrisy
There are numerous epithets various strands of Christianity tend to utilize...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #41. Joshua Marston’s Come Sunday
Come Sunday
Joshua Marston's fourth feature film once again sees him work within a dramatic genre framework, but becomes a first bio-treatment for the helmer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #49. Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You
The moment hip hop artist Boots Riley took Sorry to Bother You to the Sundance labs (2015 June Screenwriters Lab and...
Sundance ’18: Wash Westmoreland, Debra Granik, Gus Van Sant & Zellner Bros. In Premieres Section
Despite not expecting the Premieres sections to be drop today, several of the narrative items below were on our radar and make for what...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Coming from the world of hip hop, you'd expect Boots Riley to be somewhat of a novice with film in general but a not...
Video: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I was lucky to put their own words into the film" - Matt Ruskin
It was an emotional world premiere screening at the Library especially...