'Zola' is a Modern Black Fairytale
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.

The film tells the story of a 17-year-old boy of Roma origin who discovers his musical talent. After a conflict in the classroom, his teacher decides to challenge him to stand up against aggression and find himself. This could change his life.
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.
She is being made to justify why she doesn’t believe he’s a feminist, instead of him having to justify his choice to claim he is one.
This documentary moves chronologically through Black representation in horror films, revealing the genre's connections to Black history.
Strangers in a crowd, exchanging glances, looking away, continually managing to run into each other then part ways, end up at the same diner, find they've rented the exact same vehicles, and are then made to travel together to learn once more whether they can both find genuine adoration and companionship again. This really does, in so many words, sum up the foundational gist of of this new feature film from writer Seth Reiss ("The Menu") and director Kogonada ("The Acolyte", "After Yang"). Yet, it's all only the set-up for the REAL wonder of everything that happens before, during, and in the aftermath of a magical, meaningful journey.
Rules are nowhere to be seen in the harsh unfiltered reality of ‘Fair Play.’
"13 Going on 30" tracks the tricky transition from adolescence to adulthood.