Kory Nicholoff could have seen “Sinners” in a movie theater in his hometown of Detroit. Instead he drove nine hours round trip to see it in Indianapolis.He wanted to watch Ryan Coogler’s horror film about vampires and blues music in the most expansive,

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,

In a world where legacy is so often tied to blood, pain, and repetition, Sinners offers something radical: the idea that you can write your own ending. That music, which is honest, human, and handmade, might be the only way to break the cycle. In Sinners, that’s the real miracle: not eternal life, but a meaningful one.