"Sinners," a vampire historical-fiction-horror movie from "Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler, hits theaters this week, bringing audiences something unique from anything they have seen before.

Ariel Lawhon’s historical novels bring real-life horror to the page with chilling precision, turning true stories into ...

The film’s vampires are essentially metaphors ... “Sinners” plays as a work of minutely observed historical fiction. It’s set in the Black community in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in the ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies ... imagined worlds and reality: Historical fiction games will be big in the ...

Like the first Gladiator, the movie opens with a battle scene ... the problem is that it’s also bad historical fiction, doubling down on the destinies and soap-operatic machinations while ...