#TheStory, described by The New York Times as “an Odyssean tale of friendships gone sour…and keeping your selfhood intact in the midst of chaos,” gained even more attention in a tell-all Rolling Stone profile published in November 2015.

Her 148-tweet tale (notoriously referred to in pop culture as #TheStory) immediately went viral after attracting the attention of celebs like Solange Knowles, Ava DuVernay, and Missy Elliot. Zola is a movie based on a series of tweets written by A’Zia “Zola” King in October of 2015. But in the US of A, I’m a moviegoer again! I’d missed the experience, not just of watching a movie in a real-life movie theater again since the start of the pandemic, but to see a Hollywood movie a week after its release, in a movie theater that also serves me beer and fried pickle spears without me even having to go anywhere! In South Africa, I watch mostly all of my movies at home, once they’ve been released for a few months. While there are plenty of movie theaters in Cape Town, where I’ve been for the past few years, the movies are usually a few months post-release in American cinemas. It was the first movie I’ve seen in theaters since January of 2020, which was consequently the last time I visited some friends in Brooklyn on a trip home from South Africa (where I live!). I had yet to hear of the film or the tweets until our conversation.Ībout 30 seconds into the trailer, I messaged him back saying, “We are SEEING this movie when I’m in New York!” He had recently gushed to me about it for 10 minutes over the phone before just sending me the movie trailer so that I could see it for myself. My friend Danny, one of the biggest film buffs I know, had already seen the movie Zola a week prior.

showtime at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in downtown Brooklyn ( one of the New York City movie theaters included in our local theater guide! ).

I just got back from seeing Zola, one of the many new movie releases out now in movie theaters.īecause I am in Brooklyn visiting friends for the week, I took a look at movie theaters near me to compare movie showtimes and settled on going to the 5:15 p.m.

Hey, Hollywooders! What’s Good in the ‘Wood ?

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