Sinners
(★★★★★)
I went into this knowing three things about this: it was a period piece, it might involve vampires, and someone compared it to From Dusk Til Dawn.
But wow. What a movie. It’s nothing like Dune, but watching it I had the same “this is something unexpectedly wonderful” feeling that I had the first time I saw Dune.
In essence, taking place in 1932 Mississippi, twin brothers Smoke and Stack unexpectedly come back to town. Smoke and Stack had big reps before they left, then they went off to WWI and then spent years working with the Chicago mob. Now ready to come home they come back to this little sharecropper town (with a clear Klan backdrop) to start a juke joint.
Of course, two clearly well-to-do black men with big ideas showing up in a town like this, you just know that someone is going to cause trouble for them. And they seem well ready to face any kind of trouble that comes between them and their dream.
But, alas, the trouble that finds them may not be anything that they would have had in mind.
Featuring great everything. It’s a lengthy movie, but it kept me engaged with its well researched backdrop, the music is fantastic, Michel B Jordan does a great job playing Smoke and Stack, two much different characters, but with a very strong bond between them, Wunmi Mosaku steals a lot of the show as Annie, Smoke’s estranged wife and avowed spiritual wise woman.
And the antagonists (not the racists, the other antagonists) led by pleasantly singing and playing Remmick, are a much more affable and entertaining group of monsters than I’ve seen before.
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