The power and prolific nature of Black music displayed in "Sinners" is a reminder that Black history didn’t start with our ...

Why SINNERS’ Blues Club Juke Dance Scene Is PERFECT. This is why Sammie Moore’s “I Lied To You” Club Juke blues scene in SINNERS is PERFECT thanks to director Ryan Coogler, Composer Ludwig Göransson, ...

In November 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially designated April ...

Sinners” filmmaker Ryan Coogler tells IndieWire about his reverence for Irish music and its narrative importance in his ...

Coogler thus uses two forms of traditional music – African-American blues and Irish folk – as a way to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans and the vampires share.

However, the film's originality helped it to stand out as unique among cliché vampire movies. Let's look at the x-factors ...

Ryan Coogler's first original film, 'Sinners,' blends elements of supernatural horror, gangster drama, romance, and blues ...

This article was published in partnership with Scalawag, a publication centering Black folks in the South. Subscribe to its ...

Right away, we’re hit with a title card informing us of the story’s time and place: 1932, the Mississippi Delta, two ...

The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, ...

Mixing traditional Tuareg folk music with Malian electric blues and trance-inducing North African chaabi music ... in West Africa as that of the American cowboy here, tishoumaren music exudes ...

African-American writer-director Ryan Coogler has ... into the deepest reaches of Southern Gothic accompanied by blues music and a lot of interference from the supernatural. We’re in the ...