Drift, 2024. Directed by Anthony Chen. Starring Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Ibrahima Ba, Honor Swinton Byrne, Zainab Jah, Suzy Bemba, Vincent Vermignon, Abigail Boyd, Amanda Drew, Luca Calvani, Dorotea Mercuri, and Jonathan Rhodes. SYNOPSIS: Jacqueline escapes her war-torn country to a Greek island. She meets an unmoored tour guide, and the two become close as […]
Movie Review – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, 2023. Written and Directed by Raven Jackson. Starring Charleen McClure, Sheila Atim, Moses Ingram, Reginald Helms Jr., Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Zainab Jah, Preston MacDowell, Jannie Hampton, and Jayah Henry. SYNOPSIS: A decades-spanning exploration of a woman’s life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, […]
Cynthia Erivo stars in trailer for refugee drama Drift
Utopia has released a poster and trailer for Drift, the Sundance drama from director Anthony Chen. Based on Alexander Maksik’s novel A Marker to Measure Drift, it stars Cynthia Erivo as Jacqueline, a Liberian refugee who arrives alone and penniless on a Greek island where she develops a friendship with tour guide Callie (Alia Shawcat) […]
Movie Review – False Positive (2021)
False Positive, 2021. Directed by John Lee. Starring Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan, Zainab Jah, Gretchen Mol, Sophia Bush, Josh Hamilton, Kelly AuCoin, Lucy Walters, Sabina Gadecki, Francesca Faridany, Taylor Ortega, S.J. Son, Sullivan Jones, and Nils Lawton. SYNOPSIS: As if getting pregnant weren’t complicated enough, Lucy sets out to uncover the unsettling truth […]
Movie Review – Farewell Amor (2020)
Farewell Amor, 2020. Directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Nana Mensah, Marcus Scribner and Joie Lee. SYNOPSIS: Seventeen years after he moved from Angola to New York City, a man is joined by his wife and daughter, only to discover that all three of them have changed dramatically […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Farewell Amor
Farewell Amor, 2020. Written and directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, and Jayme Lawson. SYNOPSIS: Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome […]
