I Watch Films: Sinners
Sinners (2025) It’s 1932 in Mississippi, and the Smokestack twins Elija and Elias Moore (Michael B Jordan and Michael B Jordan) have returned after several years working for gangsters in Chicago. They buy an old sawmill intending to make it a juke joint – a bar, dance hall, music venue etc for the African American community. Most of that community work as cotton pickers. They begin by collecting their younger cousin Sammie, a singer and guitarist, despite warnings from his preacher father that blues music is a sin. The three collect a variety of others; Delta Slim a pianist, Grace and Bo Chow, the Chinese shopkeepers to bring supplies, Cornbread as doorman, Smoke’s wife Annie as a cook. (Annie does hoodoo which she thinks is how the twins made it safely through WW1 and their time running with the mob; Smoke thinks it doesn’t work as their infant daughter died). They also run into Mary, Stack’s ex-girlfriend; the two split up because she’s too white and the locals didn’t li...
