128. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025)
About this episode
The episode discusses Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners', a vampire musical that tackles themes of race and colonialism.
A sexy woke vampire musical doesn't really seem like the type of thing we normally do around here, but this one takes the cake back from the white man and colonial Christianity. Follow two confused white men as they try to impress people with how good they are at decipher the plight of the black community in this thrilling, edge-of-our-seat thrill ride episode of Loathsome Things: A Podcast That Would Fight The Power If We Weren't Already Sweaty Just From Talking About a Movie!
People in this episode
Host: loathsomethings
Topics covered
- vampires
- musicals
- race
- colonialism
- horror
- film analysis
Keywords
- vampire musical
- Ryan Coogler
- horror film
- race relations
- colonial Christianity
- film critique
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Sinners
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