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Sinners (2025) - Greg - 05-15-2025
We took a break from the vacation to see the movie taking America by storm. And it was fine. The fact Michael P. Jordan plays twins takes me out of the movie a lot because I kept asking myself how big they do that.
There's not a lot to the story on a basic level. Towards the end, I felt there were a few story cheats. But on the whole it was a diverting two hours.
The Queen really enjoyed it.
Sinners - thatguy - 08-08-2025
A servicable vampire flick set in depression era south…twin brothers “Smoke” and “Stack” come back to town with a bunch of money (from their exploits in Chicago with Al Capone). They want to use that to set up a juke joint for all the share-cropper folk, make more money selling booze, gambling, etc…
The buy an old barn with a wad of cash and start to make all the other arrangements. A side story shows some on-the-run white vagrant running thru fields as if someone is in hot pursuit. He ends up at a shack and the folks there (klan) let him in. The injuns that are chasing him appear later, but are turned away. Then it gets dark, and things go to shit.
Now there are several vampires in the neighborhood, and they play banjo, fiddle, and want to join the fun at the juke joint…
After that, it’s a somewhat predictable vampire movie, but enjoyable. They did a good job with the music and intertwined old blues with appalachian/irish music. There was one scene, trying to demonstrate that some musicians have the power to connect old spirits, the present, and what’s to come together and there’s a bit of a mishmash of african musicians and dancers, the 1920s-30s age blues dancers, and “the future” including a p-funk link guy playing a flying V. I could have done without that, it was a bit cliched and they could have done it a myriad of other ways.
All in all, a pretty good movie tho.
—tg
RE: Sinners - Drunk Monk - 08-09-2025
There was a ton of buzz on this at sdcc. I hear it’s a lot about the music.
RE: Sinners - Greg - 08-09-2025
I reviewed this two months ago.
RE: Sinners (2025) - Drunk Monk - 01-23-2026
I enjoyed that immensely. I loved its comments on music, evil and racism, especially it’s fake on the blues. The vampire tropes were funny and shifted the tone enough to re-engage my attention. The Night of the Living Dead nod was appreciated. The notion that music invites the devil totally worked for me.
Ultimately what sold it for me was the cameo in the credits. That tied the blues homage up nicely and brought the metaphor and mythology of the blues into focus. Not sure if I’d consider it Oscar-worthy but these are the times we live in; horror racism is the metaphor. The credits cameo and the Juke Joint oner sold me on the movie. You know what a sucker I am for oners (and that was a freaking great one) and music legends.
Seen on Amazon prime.