Ryan Coogler's latest film, "Sinners," a spicy cinematic gumbo of African American folk tale, painful racial history and ...

Warning: This essay contains spoilers for the film Sinners. Sinners stars Michael ... his father warns that the blues is supernatural, but the boy is set on leaving town and pursuing a career ...

For the second weekend in a row, the box office was dominated by “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s horror-drama musical about the tension between the ground-level cultural revolution of the blues ...

I cajoled my way into this space this week after being captivated by the musical ideas pulsing through “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler ... a transcendent blues musician plays so fiercely, he summons ...

Warning: This essay contains spoilers for the film Sinners. There's a song written by the jazz singer Billy Eckstine with Sid Kuller called "Blues, the Mother of Sin" that has always been ...

Blues isn't simply the mother of sin; it is a nexus point along the continuum of Black music, birthing so many modern forms. In Sinners, vampires are the ultimate culture vultures, with the "soul" in ...

Pictures shows actors Delroy Lindo, from left, and Michael B. Jordan with director-writer-producer Ryan Coogler on the set of "Sinners." (Eli Adé/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) ...

The blues angle alone could fill a syllabus. “Sinners” is more than the movie we need at a time when government is censoring art, history, books and speech. Movies like this, Gipson said ...

“The Blues is the story of realness. Jesus is going to make it alright, but you need some way to talk about [loss],” Dr. Chireau offers. In Sinners, Preacher Boy Sammie occupies the liminal ...