Carter and production designer Hannah Beachler, plus “Black Panther ... all of these characters.” So, Coogler took those familiar archetypes — the Hoodoo conjurer, the woman who can pass ...

Carter and production designer Hannah Beachler, plus “Black Panther ... of these characters, and it’s a lot of people that I know in all of these characters.” So, Coogler took those familiar ...

Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. “Sinners” is Coogler’s first film since his tour through “Creed” and two “Black Panther” movies.

Every step along the way, Coogler and Jordan are elegant in building the Smokestack Twins' world, rich with friends, family, and charismatic characters ... vampire movie. Like Black Panther ...

I mean, yes, it involves vampires, not to mention a character named Annie (played ... directing the Rocky sequel Creed and two Black Panther movies, all of which he also co-wrote.

And yet he does not reduce these characters ... a genre movie as a free-flowing ornamental party as the history of Black culture—Coogler tried to get all this into his “Black Panther ...

In fact, he just had to think about his uncle James, a man who meant the world to the “Black Panther ... movie’s fictional town of] Clarksdale, into this room full of almost mythical ...

In fact, he just had to think about his uncle James, a man who meant the world to the “Black Panther” filmmaker ... walking right into [the movie’s fictional town of] Clarksdale, into this room full ...