The rootsy soundtrack to the hit vampire film set in a '30s-era Mississippi juke joint is a streaming smash in an era of ...

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 and the parasitic music industry ...

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 ...

Warning: This essay contains spoilers for the film Sinners. Sinners stars Michael ... In his commitment to the blues, you can read the music as an urtext for Black American memoir, one that ...

The legendary Robert Johnson, a blues icon, whose life story ... His profound influence on music is now depicted in the movie 'Sinners,' directed by Ryan Coogler, which has already grossed over ...

But how well he played the harmonica. The traces of the blues are perceptible in Sinners even when the music isn’t playing. For example: one character asks another, “How are you?” and the response is, ...

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 ...

"As long as American music survives, so will the blues." You can read the throughline of Sinners — in which Sammie, the lone human survivor of Remmick's vampire horde, abandons his father's ...

Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as the twins Smoke and ... But in another sense, the flash-forward feels crucial to Sammie's story. In his commitment to the blues, you can read the music as an urtext ...