‘Sinners’ 2025: About the Michael B. Jordan Horror Movie

The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'

The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.

‘Sinners’ 2025: About the Michael B. Jordan Horror Movie

Michael B. Jordan and filmmaker Ryan Coogler teamed up again for a film that takes place in 1930s Jim Crow-era South. Learn all about 'Sinners,' here.

What is the African American Hoodoo 'Magic' Portrayed in Ryan Coogler's Sinners?

Ryan Coogler's Sinners is winning the hearts of audiences all over the world, and in a short amount of time, the supernatural drama has broken several box-office records. Starring Michael B Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku and more promising actors, Sinners shows the side of history often missed in the mainstream cinema. By surrounding the narrative with vampires, violence and breathtaking visuals, the film also subtly shows the quiet, gro…

Ryan Coogler's Genre-bending 'Sinners' Made Me Excited For Movies Again

This article was originally published via the DIASPORA NEWSLETTER on April 22, 2025. SPOILER ALERT: This article contains specific details about Sinners. I have told the following story a million times. Consider this a million and one. In 2013, months before I moved to Los Angeles, I lived in San Francisco as a freelance journalist. I interviewed a new much-talked-about director at the time. His name was Ryan Coogler, a Bay Area native, and I wa…

‘Sinners’ proves Ryan Coogler is in a league of his own – North by Northwestern

Michael B. Jordan as Smoke (left) and Miles Caton as Sammie Moore (right) in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther and Creed), is already being called one of the defining films of the decade — and after seeing it, it’s easy to understand why. Sinners feels less like a typical release and more like an event, with a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score, the biggest opening for any original fil…