The Farooqi Bros host a popular podcast on cinema and pop culture.
The four brothers review films, interview actors and directors from Hollywood, and debate opinions in ways only siblings can.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Review | The Farooqi Bros Podcast
Jul 25, 2025
The Farooqi Bros and Cinema Debate review The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and the Thing face their most daunting challenge yet as they defend Earth from Galactus and Silver Surfer.
SUPERMAN Movies Ranked From Best to Worst | The Farooqi Bros Podcast
Jul 21, 2025
The Farooqi Bros are back with our latest podcast. Today, we rank all the Superman film from 1978’s Superman The Movie, Man of Steel, and Superman 2025. We also get into a heated debate about our favorite Superman adaptations. We discuss animation, television and films and rank the best versions of the character.
The Farooqi Bros are divided over James Gunn’s SUPERMAN film. What works? What doesn’t? Does this film successfully kick off the DCU? All that and more will be debated in this edition of The Farooqi Bros Podcast:
Today, we are discussing: -Jurassic World: Rebirth -F1 Movie -The Shrouds
F1 Movie Review | 28 Years Later Review – The Farooqi Bros Podcast
Jun 23, 2025
The Farooqi Bros are live for our latest podcast:
Today, we are discussing: -F1 Movie – Review | One of the best of 2025? -28 Years Later Review – A strong return to the franchise -Elio’s Box Office – What does Pixar Need to bounce back?
How to Train Your Dragon | Materialists | Ballerina Review – The Farooqi Bros Podcast
Jun 02, 2025
The Farooqi Bros are live for our latest podcast:
Today, we are discussing: -How to Train Your Dragon – Is this the best live action remake? -Celine Song’s Materialists Review -John Wick : Ballerina Review
Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning Review | The Farooqi Bros Podcast
May 19, 2025
The Farooqi Bros are discussing: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Spoiler, Stitch Live Action Review, Fountain of Youth Review
Sinners Review | The Farooqi Bros Podcast
Apr 21, 2025
The Farooqi Bros Review Ryan Coogler’s SINNERS.
Sinners Review – Crossroads of Blood and Blues
Apr 19, 2025
History hangs heavy in the American Deep South, where stories are born from deep wounds and songs carry the weight of sorrow and survival. The blood and faith that soaks the soil gives rise to dreams of freedom and defiance. It is of this restless land that a story is told of a man, met by the devil at a Mississippi crossroad. Guitar in hand, he struck a bargain, selling his soul for the gift of music that’d would haunt this world forever.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners marks the directors fifth feature film, the first of which being an entirely original project outside of works based around real events or within a franchise, while simultaneously being his greatest achievement yet. The genre-defying film is a deep exploration of racial trauma, the fight for freedom, family and the transformative power of music.
Set in the early 1930’s. the film follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both portrayed by Michael B. Jordan) as they return to their hometown in Mississippi with plans of opening a juke joint, only to be confronted by a lurking, supernatural evil. Hailee Steinfeld delivers a compelling performance as Mary, Stack’s former lover, whose role adds emotion depth to the narrative, pushing the central conflict while embodying themes of forbidden desire and lingering pain. Still, in his debut role, Miles Caton emerges as the films true anchor, delivering a breakout performance as young blues artist Sammie Moore. The emotional and spiritual centre of Sammie’s character becomes the catalyst for which Sinners explores its deepest tensions. Suspended between salvation and damnation, Sammie is caught between the church of his preacher father and the seductive lure of the juke joint – both sanctuaries in their own right. The string of his guitar becomes the spiritual tightrope he must walk, with each note a prayer and a rebellion. Music becomes a voice for the voiceless in a pocket freedom carved out on stolen land. It’s an escape from injustice, a sound of resistance and a lifeline beyond blood. Sinners understands this intimately and depicts its liberation in a way that transcends the screen.
In visuals and score, Sinners is just as bold as it is in storytelling. The atmosphere is tense and evocative. The heat-hazed south and eerie night is perfectly framed. In its entirety, the film is deeply enhanced by Ludwig Göransson’s breathtaking score. It is a timeless mix of music and genre that breathes throughout every aspect of the film. The score reflects a liber ton and spiritual weight that amplifies the emotional core and depth of the film’s narrative in a way that, at times, is more visceral than anything ever seen in film.
The richness of Sinners’ themes cannot be overstated. Its ideas are historic, systemic and pervasive. It is a bold reimagining of a folklore genre that elevates the vampire myth beyond cliche and into something urgent and relevant. It is faithful to the root of their emergence as stories designed to warn, control, and define danger of what is deemed uncivil or outside the bounds of what is considered unacceptable. The projection of fear onto the unfamiliar, the “different,” is a mirror of the vilification blackness in America. Yet the vampires also offer a sharp duality. The vampires are not simply monsters, but parasites of culture wearing a mask of kinship and offering a seductive illusion of freedom. They reflect a complex reality of true autonomy when survival demands compromise. These creatures don’t simply haunt – they entice, exploit and offer a conditional freedom through assimilation or submission. Offers of false freedom only made and to be accepted under the shadow of coercion. An offer of community, connection and life hollowed out and stripped away of history, identity and agency. It is a salvation meant to mimic peace, repackaging exploitation as liberation. Culture without context, stories without struggle, and music without soul. Ryan Coogler uses this dynamic to interrogate the nature of liberty under oppression and to reflect systems of oppression that claim to aid and understand while simultaneously reinforcing inequality. What makes the vampires so compelling is the truth in the struggle that they acknowledge, the recognition of the worlds harsh conditions. Truths they manipulate for their own price of freedom, desperation and cultural appropriation.
Sinners is a monument to cinema, one that may easily go on to become an all-time classic. It is stunning and rare in its ambition and resonance. It’s a searing, soulful example of thematic maximalism. Ryan Coogler crafts a film that is intimate and immensely dense – rooted in cultural memory and creativity that sings with urgency, resistance, redemption. Few film in recent years have been so bold. Even fewer have left behind a mark so deep it draws blood.
5/5
Mickey 17 Review | The Farooqi Bros Podcast
Mar 11, 2025
Cinema Debate reviews Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 in this week’s podcast.
Who Will Win at the 2025 Oscars? | The Farooqi Bros Podcast
Mar 01, 2025
The Farooqi Bros are live for our latest podcast: Today, we are discussing: What should win vs. what will win at the Academy Awards — here are our Oscars predictions.
The Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 | The Farooqi Bros Podcast
Jan 06, 2025
The Farooqi Bros begin the first podcast of 2025 with our most antipated movies of the year, including Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, SUPERMAN, AVATAR 3, MICKEY 17, and more:
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