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New York Times
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Boys Go to Jupiter' Review: A Florida Project
'Tastes like honey, tastes like piles of money,' croons Rozebud (voiced by Miya Folick) early in the animated musical comedy 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' set in a muggy Florida suburb. A wry teenager, Rozebud is serenading the pristine fruits growing in the greenhouse orchard of her mother's orange juice plant — one of countless whimsical settings that make up points of interest across this movie's peculiar Floridian map. I say 'map' because the sites depicted in 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' the first feature from the artist Julian Glander, purposefully suggest the playable environment of a retro video game, or else a Richard Scarry town on acid. Each setting — a drained pool, a novelty hot-dog stand, a grubby motel room, to name a few — is formally discrete and aggressively computer generated, rendered in rubbery graphics and a spectacularly lurid neon palette. Peopling the scenes are characters voiced by a cadre of comedic talent (Julio Torres, Eva Victor and Janeane Garofalo are among the ensemble) who intone their lines in a lethargic deadpan. Our hero is Billy 5000 (Jack Corbett), a teenage dirtbag obsessed with racking up cash. A food delivery courier, Billy is a recent inductee into the grindset; His guru is a motivational podcast host named Mr. Moolah (Demi Adejuyigbe). Billy's fixation on wealth builds to a big decision and a lesson about the things money can't buy. But the magic of 'Boys Go to Jupiter' lies in its more inventive supporting details: a gravestone on a mini-golf course; a customer who prefers his food prechewed; an alien worm with a falsetto. Here is a movie notably unafraid to manifest the weirdest of the weird, no matter what the Mr. Moolahs of the world have to say. Boys Go to JupiterNot rated. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes. In theaters.
Washington Post
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Singer Miya Folick is not here to stay in her lane
If you had asked L.A.-based musician Miya Folick whether making music is healing before the creation of her latest album, 'Erotica Veronica,' she would've said: 'I don't really feel like music is therapy. I feel like therapy is therapy and music is music.' But since the February release of her most vulnerable work yet, she can't help but accept that, this time, how she was dealing with things had everything to do with the music she was making. 'The songs are so honest, and I'm saying things in them that are kind of scary to say out loud,' Folick says on a Zoom call. 'Once those songs are out in the world, it does kind of force me to be like, 'Okay, I have to honor that truth now.''
