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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Genres are a way to see the world and respond to it. Each has a canon, conventions and dignity—in “Sinners”, especially the blues. But genres are also simplifications. After all, it may take ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aficionados cognizant of Clarksdale’s role in the Delta blues will want to know: There may not be a crossroads in “Sinners,” but that doesn’t mean there aren’t life-and-death turning points.