Your Voice Media’s LA Media Correspondent attended the Sinners screening and Q&A at the Directors Guild of America, hosted by Octavia Spencer, featuring insights from Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo on storytelling, collaboration, and creative vision.

The final chapter of The Strangers trilogy pulls no punches. This time, Maya — played with raw intensity by Madelaine Petsch — is done running. As the masked killers close in once more, the story comes full circle in a brutal collision of fear, fury, and survival. Director Renny Harlin pushes the tension to its breaking point, delivering a finale that feels both intimate and unrelenting.

Braxton Paul’s rise feels like watching a young star step into her destiny in real time. Fresh off booking her role as Lisa in CBS’s new comedy Crutch, she still remembers the moment everything shifted. “My manager told me, ‘They didn’t like you for this role,’ and my heart dropped,” she recalls. “Then she said, ‘They loved you for it!’ I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.”