Sentences with phrase «popcorn jamboree»

Director Ryan Coogler, who is African - American and who previously made the estimable features «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed,» is also the co-writer of «Black Panther,» with Joe Robert Cole, and he understands better than any of the other Marvel maestros that for a superhero movie to be more than a popcorn jamboree, it needs to have a purpose beyond mere cacophony and hijinks.