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  • 'It doesn't stick to the rules': The reason Sinners has become a true box-office sensation

    05/03/2025 2:25:27 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 20 replies
    BBC ^ | Apr 2025 | Nicholas Barber
    After great reviews and buzz, Ryan Coogler's vampire film had an extraordinary second weekend at the box office. It's a victory for a wholly original big-budget film in a cinema landscape dominated by familiar franchises. …Featuring Michael B Jordan as a pair of twins defending their juke joint from vampires, Sinners is a horror film – but it's also a blues musical, a gangster thriller and a deeply-researched period drama about Mississippi in the 1930s. It doesn't stick to the rules of one particular genre, and it isn't based on existing intellectual property (IP), so audiences don't come to it...
  • How The Movie ‘Sinners’ Subverts Christianity In Vampire Mythology

    04/21/2025 3:25:39 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 12 replies
    Religion Unplugged ^ | April 2025 | Joseph Holmes
    I’ve always said that Coogler has never made a bad movie – from “Fruitvale Station” to “Black Panther” to “Creed” – and his strengths are on display here… “Sinners” follows two brothers (played both by Michael B. Jordan) trying to leave a troubled past behind by opening a juke joint for the Black community within their hometown, alongside their cousin Sammy (newcomer Miles Caton). …Where this movie is actually most interesting is how it handles religion. Traditionally in vampire stories, Christian beliefs and symbols are powerful forces against vampires, and some vague vision of Christian cosmology is affirmed. But “Sinners”...