Black Snake Moan: Hard Out There For a Nympho
Mike D'Angelo of Esquire had the pleasure of watching writer-director Craig Brewer's follow up to HUSTLE & FLOW, and he's written an account of his queasy, fascinated reaction ("You Just Can't Look Away") in the Sept. 2006 of Esquire.
Ah, BLACK SNAKE MOAN -- the "button pushing" swamp-tastic love story that Brewer was thrilling over when HUSTLE & FLOW got picked up at Sundance last year. When he described it then, it sounded like BABY DOLL remade with a little more beatin' on the brat and a little less clothing. And not in black and white, but with black and white as, like, an issue.
Christina Ricci plays a hot-pants gal who, when we meet her, Angelo says, "is writhing around on the ground in what appears to be pain but turns out to be--I kid you not--to be heat."
Samuel L. Jackson is the guy who attempts to cure her affliction by chaining her to a radiator. Because he cares.
But wait! The movie was to have been released shortly after the can't-miss SNAKES ON A PLANE, but now it won't be in theatres till February 2007. Can't have two SNAKE movies competing for the same dollar.