Boots Riley is back at last.
After the cult impact of Sorry to Bother You, the filmmaker returns with I Love Boosters, a sci-fi comedy that collides shoplifting, satire, fashion, class rage and surreal twists into one loud, hyper-colourful ride. Yeah, we watched the trailer like three times in a row and we’re still gaping at the screen.
Led by Keke Palmer and backed by a celeb-stuffed cast, the film follows a crew of high-end clothing thieves as they take on a powerful fashion empire by shoplifting.
What is the story of I Love Boosters?
I Love Boosters centres on The Velvet Gang, a group of professional shoplifters who steal high-end designer clothes from luxury stores and quietly resell them at lower prices. For them, boosting isn’t just a crime, it’s rebellion. It’s protest. It’s survival.
Their leader, Corvette, played by Keke Palmer, is obsessed with both the thrill and symbolism of taking back from a system built on greed. She’s like Robin Hood, but in PRADA.
The gang sets its sights on a ruthless fashion mogul who represents everything they despise about consumer culture. What begins as organised theft slowly mutates into something far bigger — and much stranger — unfolding into a confrontation packed with science-fiction elements, absurd humour and biting social commentary.
Through this wild, wild premise, Boots Riley interrogates class division, exploitation, desire and the ways consumerism controls people long before they realise it.
Oh, we’re obsessed.
Who’s in the I Love Boosters cast?
Keke Palmer
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