Mississippi town where ‘Sinners’ is set lacks a movie theater, but it may still get a screening

'Zydeco accordion wizard' in Acadiana gets a spot on 'Sinners' movie with Michael B. Jordan

Musicians from as far as Japan have come to Opelousas to learn from zydeco accordion wizard Jeffery Broussard. But Broussard was in for a surprise when renowned Celtic musician Tony Davoren, who also lives in St. Landry Parish, brought him…

Mississippi town where ‘Sinners’ is set lacks a movie theater, but it may still get a screening | News Channel 3-12

By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Clarksdale, Mississippi – which serves as inspiration for the setting of the Michael B. Jordan-starring film “Sinners” – does not have a local cineplex, which led community organizer Tyler Yarbrough to ask the filmmakers and studio behind the project to host a screening in the city. Yarbrough, along with Clarksdale mayor Chuck Espy, spoke to CNN’s Victor Blackwell, and shared their hopes that the screening will become…

Mississippi town where ‘Sinners’ is set lacks a movie theater, but it may still get a screening

By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Clarksdale, Mississippi – which serves as inspiration for the setting of the Michael B. Jordan-starring film “Sinners” – does not have a local cineplex, which led community organizer Tyler Yarbrough to ask the filmmakers and studio behind the project to host a screening in the city. Yarbrough, along with Clarksdale mayor Chuck Espy, spoke to CNN’s Victor Blackwell, and shared their hopes that the screening will become…

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners from a Palestinian solidarity lens

“Identity is what we endow, not what we inherit; what we create, not what we remember,” reads one of the stanzas in legendary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's From now on, you are someone else. “Identity is the corruption in the mirror which we must break whenever the reflection flatters us,” it concludes.  In Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a blockbuster horror and historical fiction film, twin brothers Smoke and Stack, played by Michael B. Jordan, a…

Blood Money, Blues Women, and the Power of Price: How 'Sinners' Rewrites the Gothic South

Sinners is rightly recognized as a Black Southern gothic tale, with a plot driven by its male characters. Indeed, the film highlights the camaraderie and community of these men as sharecroppers working alongside their pregnant wives, or as wizened blues musicians who experienced and witnessed enough real-world evil to rival any vampirism. However, if this “conjuring” is visceral and emotive through the blues music, it is the blues woman and conj…

Here’s hoping ‘Sinners’ inspires more big swings at the box office - Wilmington News Journal

Much has been made about the new original film “Sinners,” especially how much money the film needs to make to break even, an odd point for an original intellectual property that has already made over $130 million in just over two weeks in theaters. That’s a rare feat in the post-Marvel Cinematic Universe era. The film, a dark, character-driven exploration of race, racism, culture and cultural assimilation, is a vampire tale that somehow finds so…