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

Their cousin Sammie, a pastor's son known as Preacher Boy (played by newcomer Miles Caton), is an aspiring musician; his ...

The guitarist and singer, who turns 89 in July, discusses his role in Ryan Coogler’s musical horror drama and his promise to ...

Delta Slim, an elder blues man played by Delroy Lindo, tells the story of his friend who was castrated and lynched, he begins ...

Warning: This review contains spoilers!  There is always a price to pay. A thrilling introspective on the impacts of blues, American evangelical values and Black perseverance, “Sinners” (2025) has ...

In the movie “Sinners,” Michael B. Jordan, left, who plays twins, and Miles Caton battle vampires who are desperate to hear the blues. Metaphor literalized. Credit ...

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 ...

where the blues was born.’” Yarbrough also mentioned how in a perfect world, he would be able to convince the “Sinners” production team and cast to not only come for a screening and ...

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 ...