‘Sinners’ Is for the Sickos, the Cinephiles and You, with Ryan Coogler!

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Sean and Amanda are joined by Van Lathan to unpack Ryan Coogler’s highly anticipated vampire horror film, ‘Sinners.’ They applaud the film for its originality and authenticity, debate whether or not this is Michael B. Jordan’s best performance of his career, and unpack one of the film’s most controversial and daring scenes by hypothesizing about whether its boldness will be well received (2:28). Then, Sean is joined by Ryan Coogler to explain why he felt like he needed to make this movie, the importance of shooting on film, and the advice Christopher Nolan gave him for shooting on IMAX film cameras (1:12:03). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Ryan Coogler and Van Lathan Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the brand new Zach Lowe Show.
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0:33.2	Let's go!
0:33.8	Let's go.
0:46.8	I'm Sean Fennacy. And this is the big picture of conversation show about sinners.
0:50.8	Later in this episode, I'll be joined by Ryan Coogler, the writer-director of sinners.
0:55.1	His fifth feature film and first wholly original story.
0:58.1	It's a sexy, violent, complex, entertaining vampire horror movie.
1:01.7	It's also a story about twin brothers and our duality as men.
1:05.4	It's an erotic, deep south musical.
1:07.9	And it's an exploration of the American Blues.
1:10.1	It's a lot of movie. It also looks
1:11.8	and sounds phenomenal. If you want to know how and why he did it, stick around for my conversation
1:16.0	with Ryan. I met Ryan in 2017, never had him on the show before. He's been at the top of my
1:20.7	wish list for many, many years. I hope you'll stick around for our conversation. Seated now with us is Van Lathen. What's up, Van? What's going on, guys?
1:29.5	How are you doing? The duality of men before me. Yes. The smokestack twins right?
1:33.4	That's who's who's really the question here. Who is going to turn and who is not going to turn.
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