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 ...

Brenda Deiss, the Texas City local who made her acting debut in Sean Baker’s 2021 film “Red Rocket,” has died of complications after suffering a stroke. She was 60. The former secretary appeared in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Red Rocket breakout Bree Elrod has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. In the dark comedy from acclaimed writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine), which is ...

'N Sync has never been so gleefully seedy. (Except in the 2000 cyber-sex ode "Digital Get Down," but that's a deep cut for my other 30-somethings.) Behold "Red Rocket," the latest down-on-the-ground ...

According to “Red Rocket,” the latest movie — raunchy, restless, cinematically vital — from writer-director Sean Baker, the oil refinery Gulf Coast town of Texas City, Texas offers limited options to ...