Simon Rex is earning a lot of praise for his performance in 'Red Rocket,' but there's 1 interview question that he thinks is 'beaten to death.' Red Rocket entirely takes place in a small, rural Texas ...

Simon Rex, the star of Red Rocket, along with writer and director Sean Baker, talk about his comeback to the film industry. SEAN BAKER: In a way. I mean, it stems from research that we had done on ...

3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists Ike Holter's RED REX, now in its world premiere at Steep Theatre, is a delightfully meta-theatrical experience. The play is the sixth in local ...

Red Rocket director and co-screenwriter Sean Baker revealed that Mikey Saber, the always-hustling washed-up porn actor who returns to the Texas hometown that wasn’t exactly sorry to see him go, was ...

IndieWire Honors: The "Red Rocket" star hosts the event, taking place on December 5 in Los Angeles. That atypical Cinderella story could earn Baker some long overdue credit with the Academy, but the ...

Simon Rex in his new film “Red Rocket” is on “top of my game” and has the universe on his side. And while that’s the character speaking, the early reviews for Rex’s performance as a washed-up porn ...

TheWrap magazine: “I liken him to a cute puppy who’s chewing the newspaper and s—ting on the rug,” he says of his hyperactive hustler character If you’ve seen Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket,” it probably ...

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 ...

Simon Rex, a name once synonymous with MTV VJs and late nights with Paris Hilton, had hit a career dead end. Then the phone rang. The voice on the other end was indie film darling Sean Baker, who had ...

Simon Rex arrived at the Cannes film festival this year as an outsider: it’s pretty unlikely that any other actors in this year’s heavyweight competition line-up could boast a recurring role in the ...

Over the years, Chicago’s famous storefront-theater community occasionally has turned the lens upon itself. But in every such case that I recall, these shows have romanticized the struggles of ...