I Love Boosters is a crime-comedy written, directed, and produced by Boots Riley and starring Keke Palmer as Corvette, leader of the Velvet Gang, which includes Naomi Ackie as Sade and Taylour Paige as Mariah, who boost from fashion stores throughout the Bay Area to resell themselves to low-income community members. Demi Moore plays Christie Smith, owner of the fashion stores being boosted from who is both the idol and villain of Corvette's life. Also starring is Poppy Liu as Jianhu, Eiza Gonzalez as Violeta, LaKeith Standfield as Pinky Ring Guy, Will Poulter as Grayson, Don Cheadle as Dr. Jack, and Kara Young as Crying Black Mother.

Timestamps:

• (0:01:17) Sex and the City 2
• (0:34:31) The Bling Ring
• (0:53:46) Bullitt
• (1:07:59) I Love Boosters
• (1:49:32) Spoilers
• (2:15:47) Next week: Backrooms

Works Cited:

• Action cinema begins with Bullitt (Tom Breihan, 2016)
• Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
• Boots Riley, Tommy Orange and the Summer of the Oakland Artist (Sandhya Dirks, 2018)
• Boots Riley's Closet Picks (The Criterion Collection, 2026)
• Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968)
• Burkas and Birkins (Lindy West, 2010)
• Cannes: Teens Living Dangerously in Sofia Coppola's 'The Bling Ring' and Francois Ozon's 'Young and Beautiful' (Erik Kohn, 2013)
• Cruella (Craig Gillespie, 2021)
• Election (Alexander Paye, 1999)
• ENNIO MORRICONE -"Navajo Joe" (1966)
• God's Not Dead (Harold Cronk, 2014)
• I Love Boosters (Boots Riley, 2026)
• I Love Boosters (Original Motion Picture Score) - YouTube
• ‎I Love Boosters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP - Album by Keke Palmer - Apple Music
• I Love Boosters Is Colorful, Gonzo, and an Absolute Mess (Angelica Jade Bastien, 2026)
• 'I Love Boosters' Is Fashionably Frustrated - The Ringer (Adam Nayman, 2026)
• I'm a Virgo (Boots Riley, 2023)
• On 'I Love Boosters' & Who Gets To Critique Capitalism (Kathleen Newman-Bremang, 2026)
• Sex and the City: Love at the End of History (Broey Deschanel, 2021)
• Sex and the City 2 (Michael Patrick King, 2010)
• Sex and the City 2 is ugly on the inside (no author listed, no date given)
• Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018)
• The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013)
• The Coup - "I Love Boosters!" (Full Album Stream)
• The death of Sex and the City (Hadley Freeman, 2010)
• The Suspects Wore Louboutins (Nancy Jo Sales, 2010)
• Who's Afraid of Carrie Bradshaw? (Broey Deschanel, 2025)

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