Sinners: Best Movie of All Time?

It’s never too late to show love to brilliant cinema so we had to give it up to last year’s folk horror banger, Sinners! We sat down with actor, writer, and filmmaker Tarik Davis to chat about our love for this movie. We really tried to talk about everything under the sun (no pun intended). With two actors on set, Tarik and Aisha get real about the state of the film and TV industry. The gatekeeping, the nepotism, all the things that keep movies like Sinners from being made in the first place.

On top of all that, we get into all the cultural nuance Ryan Coogler packed into this flick. There’s a lot, but we get to talk through the use of southern Black culture and why Sinners bridged it with the Irish and Chinese Delta experiences. How this movie moves cinema forward, and why Black horror is still an untouched gold mine. Tarik and Frantz sing a spiritual while giving props to Eddie Murphy for possibly making the MCU possible. Want to know how? Pull up and kick it with 2Nerds and an Actor while we reminisce on the brilliance of Sinners.

00:00 — Welcome & Meet Tarik Rashaan Davis05:34 — Becoming a Movie & Comic Book Nerd08:08 — Sinners Without the Spoilers12:40 — Seeing Home on the Big Screen15:07 — SPOILERS BEGIN15:56 — First Impressions of Sinners18:03 — Blacula, Blade & Black Vampires21:13 — What the Vampires Really Represent24:00 — Why This Story, Why Now?26:15 — Eddie Murphy & Black Genre Cinema28:42 — Black-Ass Moments36:44 — Sammy Takes the Stage40:00 — The Scene That Changes Everything45:00 — When Critics Miss the Point53:28 — The Lore Runs Deep55:42 — New Jack City… With Vampires57:00 — The Sinners Cinematic Universe57:57 — Final Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices