The ‘Black Panther’ director reunites with Michael B. Jordan for an ambitious, uneven movie about blues-playing and ...

There’s a culture war raging within the throbbing, thrumming 1930s juke joint that serves as its primary backdrop; viewers ...

Long the topic of debate as to rock 'and' roll's origins, one Delta blues legend Howlin' Wolf record has been put forward as the genre's first possible cut.

Ryan Coogler's Sinners is finally here and we talked to the filmmaker about what it took to bring his vampire vision to the ...

A vampire film set in 1930s Mississippi may seem out of left field for director Ryan Coogler. But its personal ties to the ...

It’s not just that Coogler dares to do something different with Sinners – it’s that he lets it all wrestle, sweat, and bleed ...

Ryan Coogler's Sinners creates a mythology all its own, but takes inspiration from the real-life legend of a blues musician ...

among them—pioneered the art form. Delta blues is widely considered the original blues template, an acoustic country blues distinguished by slide guitar, as popularized by Patton and Johnson.

For Coogler, the scope, twists, and turns of the “Sinners” were all a part of his curation process. “I wanted the movie to ...

Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie mines vampirism’s symbolic potential to tell a tale of exploitation and Black music in ...

Director Ryan Coogler talks about how a trip to Mississippi and a suggestion to shoot on IMAX turned "Sinners" into an ...