Oakland native Ryan Coogler’s fifth feature, “Sinners,” is his best yet, a daring epic that challenges the very notion of genre filmmaking and adds new blood to the movie landscape in the process. “Sinners” resembles a hearty Southern gumbo spiced up with ideas about Black America, the blues, faith, the supernatural, and cultural appropriation.

Ryan Coogler revealed why it was important for him to own the rights to his latest movie, "Sinners."