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In Ryan Coogler's hit horror film, the vampires are more than monsters, they teach us about history, death, and repression.
Clarksdale didn't just provide history and blues for director and writer Ryan Coogler's hit movie about art, Jim Crow and ...
Vampires like “Twilight ... half-Filipino from Bohol, and half African American. She’s perfect as the multi-racial love interest. You get Mississippi Native Americans trying to make things right with ...
“Cowboy Carter” insists that if an African-American’s taking it on — gospel ... a mess of rules to bend and adhere to: those of vampires, arguably zombie movies too, Jim Crow, the musical ...
By surrounding the narrative with vampires, violence and breathtaking ... and deeply rooted in African American history. Coogler's film gives it life without sensationalism, showing its power ...
It’s why drums and singing in the West African ... But as is the American (male) way, they believe that guns and money will protect them. And this is the truth that even the vampires tell ...
Ryan Coogler's newest movie, Sinners explores the history of spirituality and western religion through the lens of colonization and oppression.
I was already excited to see a vampire movie focusing on Black characters in the South, but what shocked me was the subplot of the complicated relationship between African Americans and Christianity.
William Marshall as Prince Mamuwalde in “Blacula” (American ... Marshall plays an African prince named Prince Mamuwalde who visits Transylvania and is turned into a vampire by Count Dracula.
Jack O’Connnell’s role as Remmick, the master vampire villain in Ryan Coogler ... s not known how much crossover there is between African American culture and Irish culture and how much ...
Though vampires have been stalking the night for centuries, the first feature film to star a Black one was 1972’s “Blacula,” an African prince (William Marshall) who embarks on a fateful ...