The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.

For more than a decade, Coogler has been Hollywood's quiet revolutionary - symbolizing, for the Black community, a figure akin to our very own Christopher Nolan. From chronicling the final hours of Oscar Grant's life in "Fruitvale Station,

Only a select number of movie theaters are able to show "Sinners" as director Ryan Coogler intended. Three are in California, with commemorative filmstrips.