2/4  Black Snake Moan
Black Snake Moan is a movie that tries to have it both ways, It tries to send a good message about one man helping a woman turn her life around, when he at the same time is as bad as she is. Solid direction and acting are destroyed by a ba... (read full)

3/4  Offbeat But Interesting
As strange as this film is, it’s ultimately a story about redemption. There’s something beautiful about the uneveness of this movie: the first twenty minutes are focused, the middle doesn’t know where to go, and the last twenty minutes reg... (read full)

  dont let the cover fool you.
People, do not be fooled by the DVD cover. This is not just a movie about sex, solely so people can see Christina Ricci prance around half naked, chained to a radiator. It's actually more than it seems. Christina Ricci plays Rae, a girl in... (read full)

2.5/4  Blues and Heat
This was completely different than what I thought it would be, based on the previews.

It was actually more...touching (for lack of a better word).

You have an old blues singer who has been done wrong by his wife and brother. He ... (read full)

2.5/4  Black Snake Moan Quick Review
I would say that this was nothing more than just very entertaining.

2.5/4  Black Snake Moan Quick Review
Demons from the past haunt the characters in Black Snake Moan. Yet redemption is only a blues' song away. Interesting, but I can't say I loved it. Christina Ricci plays a damaged yet fragile woman, and Jackson plays Lazarus to the hilt.

2/4  Black Snake Moan Quick Review
My first impression was to give it only 1.5 stars, but after sleeping on it (which I always do) I lightened up some. Sam Jackson can not pull off sining. He does not have a real southern accent and he made me cringe when he tried. Skip it!

5/5 Wondeful Fable of Healing
  by Robert W. Scott (Luray, VA USA)
First, I want to mention this is a stunner in Hi-Def, richly colored, finely detailed and the night scenes are full of inky blacks and blues.

The main reason I want to write a review for this movie is because I think alot of people look at the cover and make the assumption that the story is sexist, and it'd probably be a fair guess, but it really isn't at all. It's a uniquely honest fable about redemption and facing our flaws.

Lazarus (Samuel Jackson) is a farmer and former blues guitarist trying to deal with his own demons, stemming from his failed marriage to a younger woman who leaves him for his younger brother.. Rae is a girl with crippling self-esteem problems, she loves her boyfriend fiercely, but when he leaves for a tour in Iraq, she lets herself be passed from man to man. Lazarus finds her one morning, comatose from drugs and being beaten by her boyfriend's best 'friend' on the side of the road, and realizes that if he can help her clean up her act, he may be able to save himself.

In the hands of any other director, with any other actors or actresses, this film probably would have been a complete disaster... yet somehow it ends up being one of the most emotionally honest movies I've ever seen. Neither corny nor overly sentimental. I highly recommend.