Black Snake Moan

A recently jilted and spiritually revived bluesman chains a nympho to his heater to treat her condition. Of course, the musician's black and the young girl is white, so there's a racial element here as well, but it's for the most part unaddressed. Director Craig Brewer might be trying to develop a new genre of film, Southern Gothic Nouveau, but this film is no "Hustle & Flow." But then, what is? It is, however, definitely, the better of Samuel L. Jackson's "Snake" movies.