I love Sorry to Bother You with all my heart. Directed by the multitalented Boots Riley (listen to his music with The Coup, please!), the absurdist satire throws Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson on a journey directly into the devilish heart of capitalism, racism, and the performative whiteness and Blackness Black folks must switch between to survive in our world. When I left the theater, I felt like my brains had been scrambled and like my body had been teleported. I'll see anything the guy makes. And his next televisual project, just recently announced, sounds like it'll hit …
Hot off his villainous turn in Hobbs and Shaw, Idris Elba has signed on for the indie movie Concrete Cowboys alongside rising stars Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) and Jharrel Jerome, the latter of whom is currently up for an Emmy for his devastating turn in When They See Us. Ricky Staub is directing from a script he co-wrote with Dan Walser, and production is already under way. According to Deadline, McLaughlin will play a teen who's taken to live with his estranged father (Elba) in North Philadelphia, where he discovers the city’s vibrant urban cowboy subculture, which …