Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie mines vampirism’s symbolic potential to tell a tale of exploitation and Black music in ...

Ryan Coogler’s latest film, Sinners, arrives as a bold and haunting exploration of music, race, and the supernatural. Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the film ...

The best way to overcome a 75-minute delay is to nail a performance for 75 minutes.

It's 1932 in Clarksdale, Miss., and enterprising twin brothers Smoke and Stack, both played by Coogler's longtime muse Michael B. Jordan, have returned to town after some years away in Chicago.

The ‘Black Panther’ director reunites with Michael B. Jordan for an ambitious, uneven movie about blues-playing and ...

It’s not just that Coogler dares to do something different with Sinners – it’s that he lets it all wrestle, sweat, and bleed ...

Best Fit heads to Estonia for Tallinn Music Week and finds the festival’s ethos of togetherness more relevant and urgent than ...

The new film from Black Panther's Ryan Coogler has lots on its mind – but it's also a rollicking good time at the movies.

This is a bold, well-planned, historical supernatural thriller about vampires — so vividly imagined and passionately presented.

The country music world received more heartbreaking news this week with the death of legendary songwriter Larry Bastian. Bastian was responsible for helping to craft some of Garth Brooks’ biggest hits ...

Entering the main gallery at UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences, visitors are confronted by a massive fallen ...

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty ...