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"Sinners" may have people talking for weeks about what it's supposed to mean, and what it means to them. Its runaway success ...
Beneath the spectacle of an action-packed vampire movie, the film has plenty to say about what is sacred and what is profane.
In this reported feature, writer Cierra Black speaks with the Hoodoo consultant of Ryan Coogler 's Sinners, Dr. Yvonne ...
This sequence takes place in a juke joint opened by the twins Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan). Playing for the crowd is Sammie Moore (Miles Caton), performing a song that was ...
“Sinners’” director Ryan Coogler places blues music at the center of this Jim Crow terror narrative that is also a ...
In its musical moments, Ryan Coogler's vampire blockbuster makes a powerful statement about Black culture, ancestry, and art.
Sammie plays “This Little Light of Mine” on the guitar with a blues flourish. He finishes the song, and then he looks up. We ...
Sinners delivered a jaw-dropping scene at Sammie's concert at the juke joint, bringing together several eras and styles of ...
Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster horror period piece sets out to reinvent the creature feature—for better and for worse.
Ryan Coogler’s supernatural horror film, starring Michael B. Jordan, turns into a fight for survival when the sun goes down.
And yet Coogler’s wildest, most ambitious, most creative idea — one fascinating enough to be the plot of a movie all on its ...
Ryan Coogler’s masterpiece mixes African spirits, the American church and the power of music into a terrifying brew.