As Twitter is to great literature, “Zola” is to the cinematic masterpieces that have come before: It’s superficial and relatively thin on substance, but a whole lot shorter and funnier than, say, ...
“You wanna hear a story about why me & this bi*ch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” On October 27, 2015, Twitter users became enraptured in A’ziah “Zola” King’s epic stripper/ ...
Zola, the first feature film made from a viral Twitter thread, is out now in theaters. When the Twitter thread first dropped in October 2015, it was clear that the story was about to take a life of ...
Based on a viral 2015 Twitter thread, “Zola” isn’t the first movie about social media, but it might be the first that truly captures the chaotic frenzy of how social media intersects social justice ...
Zola (2020) Film Review, a movie directed by Janicza Bravo, and starring Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, Ari’el Stachel, Colman Domingo, Jason Mitchell, Ts Madison, Megan Hayes, Tony ...
Aziah “Zola” Wells captivated the world in 2015 with her Twitter tale centered around a surreal road trip to Florida with a mysterious exotic dancer named Jessica. The enchanting story, complete with ...
A film inspired by a viral tweet thread could have gone any number of ways — indeed, the thread in question, out of which Janicza Bravo’s new feature Zola was born, goes everywhere. A stripper ...
You can take Zola out of the internet, but you can't take the internet out of Zola. Or maybe you could, but why would you ever want to? Directed by Janicza Bravo, the cinematic adaptation of the ...