FILM BY BOOTS RILEY // MAY 22, 2026
I LOVE BOOSTERS
Monica Canilao contributed over 70 pieces of art & costuming to the movie I LOVE BOOSTERS which was directed by Boots Riley and set directed by Christopher Glass.. including two custom made pieces that were rushed to set earning her the film credit as ‘ACCELERATIONIST’ !!
A raucous capitalist critique, I LOVE BOOSTERS careens through the carefully-controlled chaos of writer-director Boots Riley's imagination to deliver a comedy that's as funny as it is thought-provoking. A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."
Stylish and Outlandish, Boot’s film delivers a weird and fluorescent psychedelic ride that makes a statement far beyond fashion… focusing on workers rights, fair pay, community, art & activism.
Almost eight years after his incendiary and brilliant “Sorry to Bother You,” Boots Riley is back with another righteous middle finger to capitalism dressed in the fashion of a surreal comedy. It’s a remarkably clichéd critical device, but there truly is no doubt that you won’t see another movie like “I Love Boosters” this year, a film that feels like it sprung fully-formed from Riley’s dreams and past creative visions. A film bursting with ideas, some of them never find a way to fully connect, either to each other or the audience, but that’s where the endlessly charming Keke Palmer comes in to hold Riley’s vision together when it threatens to burst apart. “I Love Boosters” is a wickedly clever skewering of the moral rot at the center of the fashion industry delivered with enough vision to make your eyes hurt.
Film released in theaters nation wide May 22, 2026 by NEON Rated
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