{"id":17679,"date":"2025-07-06T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17679"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:57:08","slug":"sinners-2025-ryan-coogler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17679","title":{"rendered":"Sinners (2025, Ryan Coogler)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve gotta stop sitting so close to the screen &#8211; between the closeness and the frantic editing, I\u2019m not sure how our small team survived when fifty vampires, who\u2019ve been shown as lightning-quick and super-strong, bust into the house.  Bold music throughout, and the music not just incidental but vital to plot and theme.  I&#8217;d be interested in reading about influences, since it turns <em>From Dusk Till Dawn<\/em> to <em>Django Unchained<\/em>. A little too neatly tied together, with the late revelations of the twins\u2019 Chicago adventure (not actually becoming rich gangsters but stealing big from two rival gangs then running away while the gangs blamed each other) and the tolerant local whites\u2019 less-tolerant motivations, and each of the three main dudes meeting a woman at the same time, then those six being the main survivors.  Mostly as good as advertised though, taking place in a single day, plus a delicious Buddy Guy postscript.<\/p>\n<p>The near-white girl is Hailee from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5790\">True Grit<\/a><\/em>, and the other Michael Jordan&#8217;s woman played the wife in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14622\">His House<\/a><\/em>&#8230; we saw a preview for the evil white vampire\u2019s next horror movie <em>28 Years Later<\/em>&#8230; the girl Sammy likes will supposedly star in a <em>Running Man<\/em> remake&#8230; I never recognize Lola \u201c<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15174\">Gemini<\/a><\/em>\u201d Kirke, who doesn\u2019t look enough like her sister&#8230; the Chinese woman who must have died in that climactic rampage is in the new <em>Alma &#038; The Wolf<\/em>&#8230; the doorman was in <em>Miracle at St. Anna<\/em> and plays Raphael in the recent Ninja Turtle things&#8230; plus Delroy Lindo on harmonica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve gotta stop sitting so close to the screen &#8211; between the closeness and the frantic editing, I\u2019m not sure how our small team survived when fifty vampires, who\u2019ve been shown as lightning-quick and super-strong, bust into the house. Bold music throughout, and the music not just incidental but vital to plot and theme. I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2688,470,2418,926,144,2416,3014,186],"class_list":["post-17679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-delroy-lindo","tag-identical-twins","tag-michael-b-jordan","tag-racism","tag-revenge","tag-ryan-coogler","tag-the-blues","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17693,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions\/17693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}