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Movies 101

"Warfare" & "Sinners"

From left: actor D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Ray Mendoza in the 2025 film Warfare; actor Michael B. Jordan as Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore in the 2025 film Sinners.
From left: D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Ray Mendoza in Warfare (2025); Michael B. Jordan as Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore in Sinners (2025).

Nothing gives a movie narrative more energy than a plot involving conflict. And it doesn’t matter whether that conflict involves real people or fictional characters. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that represent the two sides of that equation: Warfare is a film based on an actual U.S. military operation in 2006, while Sinners features a face-off between twin brothers and a supernatural evil.

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