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Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "Zola" (2020)

Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Tom Lorenzo

Entertainment News, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Tv & Film, News

4.5780 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For this week's BKMC, Tom and Lorenzo unpack the themes, designs, and origins of director Janicza Bravo's ZOLA, probably the only major film based entirely on a viral social media thread.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're Tom O'Lorenzo.

0:24.9

And this is the Bitter Kitten Movie Club.

0:27.1

I do not have an intro nailed down yet.

0:30.6

I know.

0:31.4

And this is the third time we're trying to record this.

0:34.4

Yeah, I just don't have a...

0:35.7

Hello Kittens.

0:36.3

Welcome back to the Blah, but this is the Bitter Kitten

0:38.8

movie club.

0:39.5

It is a supplemental edition of the Pop Style Opinion Fest, where each week we look at a movie

0:44.6

and unpack its themes, motifs, whatever.

0:47.6

It's just a little short supplement, and it gets attached every week to a review of said

0:54.1

movie.

0:54.8

This week's movie is Zola from 2020 by director Janiqueza Bravo, starring Taylor Page and

1:02.4

Riley Keio and Coleman Domingo and Nicholas Braun.

1:06.4

Now, part of the reason I picked this, and at the moment, I am picking all the films, but I actually do want us to do

1:13.7

something a little more collaborative here.

1:15.1

It's just that we wanted something, you know, quick.

1:17.1

Right.

1:18.1

And I'm the film guy.

1:19.6

He's the fashion guy.

1:20.5

He went to film school, hello.

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