With COVID lockdowns now five years in the rear view, indie distributors have teamed up to deliver theatrical screenings for ...

Rex’s Mikey is a former porn star who returns to his wife Lexi (the excellent Bree Elrod) in a small Texas town as the film opens. Lexi and her mother (Brenda Deiss) don’t want Mikey around but when ...

Red Rocket is a 2021 American dark comedy-drama film. It follows Mikey Saber, a former porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown after being kicked out of Los Angeles. With no money and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This image is from the official trailer for “Red Rocket,” distributed by A24. “Red Rocket” is one ...

Porn stars. Families living in motels. Immigrants delivering takeout. Sex workers. Street vendors hawking designer knockoffs. To society, they are on the margins. To Sean Baker, they are the shining ...

Simon Rex, the star of the Cannes Film Festival-acclaimed indie effort “Red Rocket,” has something in common with the protagonist he plays in the film. He, too, got his start in pornographic films.

Summary Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” is a very fun but adequately uncomfortable film which follows the homeward bound journey of down-on-his-luck porn star Mikey Saber. Great editing and filmwork, ...

A24 presents Red Rocket in six theaters this weekend ahead of a limited expansion in New York and LA, adding Chicago, Austin and San Francisco next weekend with a wider rollout over the holidays to ...

Late-in-life movie star Brenda Deiss — who starred opposite Simon Rex in director Sean Baker's 2021 dark comedy Red Rocket — died Monday at age 60 following complications from a stroke she suffered in ...

Set amid the oil refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast, Sean Baker’s propulsive “Red Rocket” adds to the writer-director’s growing resume of exploring forgotten Americans on the fringe of a society that ...

Some movie scenes become enshrined in the history of Cinema — with a capital C — the moment they hit the screen. It is also the apotheosis of Mikey Saber, a washed-up adult film star desperate for a ...