Tag: SXSW 2026

• Boots Riley Is Back — and I Love Boosters Might Be His Best Film Yet

  

  Nearly eight years after Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley returns with a surrealist heist comedy that smuggles Marxist theory inside one of the most visually electric films of the year. Keke Palmer leads. Demi Moore villains. The fashion is immaculate. The politics are sharper.

  Rolando Illanes Jr.

  June 4, 2026

  2026 Movie Reviews, Adventure, Comedy, Entertainment, Film, Film Reviews, Independent Film, Movie Analysis, Sci-Fi

  2026 Films, 2026 Movies, Boots Riley, Demi Moore, Don Cheadle, Eiza González, Film Critique, Film Recommendations, Film Review, I Love Boosters, Independent Cinema, Independent Film, Indie Film, Indie Films, Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Movie Analysis, Movie Recap, Movie Recommendations, Movie Review, Movie Reviews, Movie Themes, Movie Thoughts, Naomi Ackie, Neon, New Movie Releases 2026, Poppy Lou, Sorry to Bother You, SXSW 2026, Taylour Paige, Will Poulter

• Same America, Different Wounds: A Review of Slanted and The Gates

  

  All film is political — but some films arrive at exactly the right moment, carrying exactly the right wounds. Slanted and The Gates, both released March 13th, tell the stories of people of color navigating a country that claims them and rejects them in the same breath. One transforms the body. The other traps it.…

  Rolando Illanes Jr.

  March 18, 2026

  2026 Movie Reviews, Dark Comedy, Drama, Entertainment, Film, Film Reviews, Horror, Independent Film, Thriller

  2026 Films, 2026 Movies, Algee Smith, Amy Wang, Asian American Film, Black Film, Bleecker Street, Body Horror, Film Criticism, Film Critique, Film Recommendations, Film Review, Film Reviews, James Van Der Beek, John Burr, Keith Powers, Lionsgate, Mason Gooding, McKenna Grace, Movie Recommendations, Movie Review, New Movie Releases 2026, Shirley Chen, Slanted, SXSW 2026, The Gates