#film Explore tagged Tumblr posts

[gattaxa]

"You want some?"

HAILEE STEINFELD as MARY in SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[enthyrea]

you keep dancing with the devil… one day he’s gonna follow you home.

[drolta]

“Papa’s here.”

[bestoftweets]

[smallestchurch]

Last time I seen my brother. Last time I seen the sun. And just for a few hours... we was free.

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[emptiness-statue]

[kmn7]

[fluentisonus]

the thing is I am still thinking about that bit in conclave right before they're about to vote when the breath of wind & birdsong comes in through the window that had recently been violently blown in to let the light and air into what has til then been a suffocatingly still & sterile & dark & enclosed environment & it ruffles all the pages on the desks & they all pause and look up. like oh god is there

[the-darkness-does-not-bargain]

One of my favorite aspects of Sinners how they use the musical scenes to build tension. Because they start out small, with just Sammy and Stack in the car, then the performance with Slim at the train station, and then working up to the scenes in the barn.

The first juke sequence is the most visually stunning, of course. It's chaotic but overwhelmingly positive, beautiful, and joyous. When we move to Pearline's song, things start to darken. The thumping stomps are timed with the twins beating the man with the loaded dice. We've already seen violence in the film, but this is a steep escalation intentionally set to music.

Then, we think the tension is going down when the ******** show up (no spoilers 🤫), but they are so immediately unsettling that we never feel at ease. Their music is sweet and their voices are soothing, but it's a front, one that fractures pretty quick but shatters completely with the Rocky Road to Dublin.

Rocky Road is a perversion of the first juke scene, twisting the joyful chaotic energy of the dance into a masterfully disturbing parody, where the full evil and madness (and twisting of spirituality) of the ******** is put on display.

It's just such a good way to build the narrative. I love love love how serious they were about making music the keystone of every filming decision.

[yeehawnce]

MICHAEL B. JORDAN AS SMOKE BEHIND THE SCENES OF SINNERS (2025) WITH DIRECTOR RYAN COOGLER

[kmnysak]

[strayingsocks]

watched transformers one today!

[sagetheroom]

mom and dad

[blondebrainpowered]

Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher in Oslo filming The Empire Strikes Back, 1979

[smallestchurch]

Nah, we ain't kill him. Smoke did. Our daddy knocked me unconscious. By the time I came to, Smoke was halfway done buryin' him.

He used to beat y'all?

Me, mostly.

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[kmn7]