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 ...

It's why blues music plays a vital role in Sinners, not just as a levity to the darkness but for the healing power it brings. The music is recognised as a powerful magical gift, embedding a rich ...

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 ...

Sinners employed powerful music with moving emotional episodes for its impact. Blues music acted as a powerful emotional force in the film that brought people to their feelings and historical ...

Sinners' understood that. It didn’t treat the Blues like decoration — it treated it like a lifeline. If you felt the pull of that dirty, divine music while watching Sinners, here are ten songs ...

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 ...

The film’s use of music is especially potent—composed by Ludwig Göransson, the score blends gospel, early blues, and experimental strings ... and Coogler stages it like an exorcism by way of a church ...