Boots Riley enjoyed a prolific career as a rapper, producer, and activist long before he burst onto the filmmaking scene with Sorry to Bother You. The multihyphenate paired a scathing rant against commercialism with a surrealist commentary on codeswitching, and effectively reintroduced himself to the world as a writer-director for the ages. Riley’s always been pretty vocal about exploitation, capitalism, and even the hypocrisy of (super)hero worship. It’s his latest on-screen project, I’m A Virgo, that allows him to unpack those themes in long form.
