In A24’s Red Rocket, Simon Rex stars as a down-on-his-luck, washed-up porn actor who returns to his Texas hometown in hopes of reinvention — or, at least, a way back to L.A. Showing up on his ...

Mikey Saber, the lead character in director Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket,” is unlikable. One hardly believes a word that comes out of his mouth. He uses people. Deals in drugs. Grooms young women for ...

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 ...

If you’re in the mood to laugh while feeling kind of sad about it, then A24 has the perfect movie for you: Red Rocket, a new comedy about a washed-up porn star, opening in theaters this weekend.