They Harder They Fall, in which a tense stand-off erupts into violence, before a new Jay Z and Kid Cudi track comes galloping in.
It is also evident in speaking to the 42-year-old director, who joins our Zoom call from Los Angeles belting out a song from The Wizard of Oz, and doesn't let up for two full verses.
In Samuel's modern western, an all-Black ensemble cast that includes Idris Elba, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield, Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, and many more, make up two gangs of adversaries who do gruesome battle across dusty frontier towns.
The film follows outlaw Nat Love (Majors), who discovers that his nemesis Rufus Buck (Elba) is being released from prison, and reunites his gang to track him down.
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