Black Panther director Ryan Coogler sure likes working with Michael B. Jordan. Not content with casting the Creed star in every single feature he’s directed so far, Coogler has Jordan playing twin brothers in his next flick, the southern-fried gothic horror, Sinners. That’s twice the MBJ for the price of one.
How to watch Sinners in New Zealand
Sinners is screening in New Zealand cinemas from April 17, 2025.
What is Sinners about?
Excellent question, friends and neighbours, but details are being kept under tight wraps. What we do know is that Jordan is playing Smoke and Stack, twin brothers who return to their hometown in the deep South of the 1930s, at the height of the racist Jim Crow laws. The brothers Jordan are hoping for some peace and quiet after living wild lives (reading between the lines, probably bootlegging or something similar) only to find their old patch in the grip of some supernatural evil.
At a guess, that’ll be vampires—a natural fit with the region, at least since Anne Rice published Interview with the Vampire back in 1976. It also seems to evoke the Delta Blues music tradition pretty heavily, a genre with its own penumbra of arcane folklore. Temember, legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson was said to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for talent and fame, a theme you can see explored in the pretty decent Walter Hill flick Crossroads.
But as for Sinners, the vibe we’re getting is “atmospheric action/horror.” And we’re here for it.
The cast of Sinners
Michael B. Jordan stars as twin brothers Smoke and Stack (perfect, no notes); Hailee Steinfeld is Mary; Miles Caton is Sammie Moore; Jack O’Connell is Remmick; Wunmi Mosaku is Annie; Jayme Lawson is Pearline; Omar Benson Miller is Cornbread; Li Jun Li is Grace Chow; Delroy Lindo is Delta Slim; Yao is Bo Chow; Helena Hu is Lisa Chow; Lola Kirke is Joan; Peter Dreimanis is Bert; Saul Williams is Jedidiah; Andrene Ward-Hammond is Ruthie; and David Maldonado is Hogwood.
Sinners trailer
Why we’re excited about Sinners
If you’re not down with two MBJs fighting vampires to a ripping blues soundtrack, give up.
