Ryan Coogler’s fifth directorial effort is almost here, as Sinners is set to premiere on the 2025 movies schedule later this month. However, you wouldn’t have been faulted for thinking after seeing 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever that the filmmaker would tackle Black Panther 3 next.

He’s written and directed four films, all heart and all winners: Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. He puts that streak on the line with Sinners, an original elevated horror film that takes his usual onscreen companion,