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Zola Review — 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 Demil, Nasir Rahim, Nelcie Souffrant, Ben Bladon and Ernest Emmanuel Peeples. 148 tweets were posted by a Detroit waitress named A’Ziah “Zola” King [...]

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The cast of Zola stepped out in full force for the LA screening of the highly anticipated film on Tuesday. Director Janicza Bravo, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo, Dave Franco, and Nelcie Souffrant all hit the red carpet together, and they were even joined by the real-life Zola herself, A'Ziah King. Also in attendance were Jodie Turner-Smith, Isis King, Arlo Parks, and several other stars.

Noticeably absent, though, was Taylour Paige, as she's currently in Bulgaria. However, she did take a moment to celebrate the film's release on Twitter. "I love you everyone! 11:37Am in Bulgaria with happy tender tears that our movie Zola is officially live!!!" she tweeted. "Whoever is to receive it, enjoy it, absorb it, love it might it find you. So appreciative of it all. Life is crazy."

Zola is based on a now-infamous 2015 Twitter thread and follows the story of Aziah, a former waitress at Hooters,...

A24 has released the official trailer for “Zola,” which will release theatrically on June 30.

Based on the infamous Twitter thread posted by A’Ziah Wells King, the film follows a Detroit waitress named Zola (Taylour Paige) who strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who convinces her to join a weekend of dancing and partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full of “hoeism” rapidly transforms into a 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some Tampa gangsters and other unexpected adventures.

“Zola” made its worldwide premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020. Described as “an irreverent, sensibility-offending trip for audiences” by Variety’s Peter Debruge, the film premiered to laughter and applause at the festival. At the premiere, director Janicza Bravo said she became “immediately obsessed” with the Twitter thread that was sent in a group text chain...

One thing for sure, it certainly is different. But that’s what we like.You might recall back in May that we posted Here an item writer/director Daman Colquhoun's Kickstarter campaign for his short film Transporter.Well it looks like it worked out for him, and his short is now finally finished and ready to be seen.With Taimak, Ibn Dixon, Petronia Paley, Nelcie Souffrant and Quadiri Bolare in the cast, the film is an “an all-black sci-fi psychological thriller about a young man (played by Oliver) at a crossroads in his troubled life.”I don’t want to say anymore about it and let you discover it for yourself. But the journey to make the film, like all films, wasn’t easy.According to...

So are you like me, and have been wondering what Taimak has been up to lately?Well, now I can answer that question. The still beloved star of The Last Dragon will soon be appearing in a new sci-fi short film titled Transporter (not to be confused with those Jason Statham movies), written and directed by Daman Colquhoun.Colquhoun, a winner of Ron Howard's Project Imaginat10n photo contest, calls his film, which stars along with Taimak, Phil Oliver, Petronia Paley, Nelcie Souffrant and Quadiri Bolare, an all-black sci-fi psychological thriller about a young man (played by Oliver) at a crossroads in his troubled life. As the filmmaker’s synopsis says the young man has “long ...