no wonder it's the most oscar nominated film of all time

Join me as we discuss one of the best movies of 2025 so far - Ryan Coogler's Sinners. Starring Micheal B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo and Jack O'Connell, the film finds it's place among other prestige blockbusters as a truly original experience with the budget and studio support to back it up. It combines elements from various genres - horror, action, vampire, heist, musical, and many more - to create something wholly unique. Today, we're gonna uncover this. Looking at how the film uses music to inform it's plot, and takes the vampire genre and uses it as a metaphor for assimilation and heritage. Thanks to Tom Fox for letting me use his music, find his impressive catalogue here: https://johnny-harris-x-tom-fox.disco... Further Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/mo... https://lwlies.com/reviews/sinners/ https://www.polygon.com/movies/561718...    • Sinners just changed filmmaking forever   https://www.indiewire.com/features/in... https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/m... https://screenrant.com/sinners-sammie... Films mentioned: Sinners Barbie Oppenheimer Top Gun: Maverick The Batman Dune Dune: Part Two Avatar: The Way of Water A Minecraft Movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Oceans Eleven From Dusk Till Dawn Nosferatu (2024) Dracula (1931) Dracula (1958) Bram Stoker's Dracula Twilight Interview with the Vampire