AAN Association of Alternative Newsmedia

Chained By The Blues

By Gregory Epps

Port Folio Weekly | February 21, 2007

Black Snake Moan courts profitable controversy with its images of a black man holding a white woman in chains -- but Brewer's film is a well-written, well-acted drama which reveals surprising depths of character and emotion.

View Full Story at Port Folio Weekly

Tags: Black Snake Moan, Craig Brewer

Port Folio Weekly

Who Do We Think We Are, Anyway? Port Folio Weekly was founded in 1983 as a lifestyle magazine for yuppies – i.e., people who traded in their bongs for Cuisinarts and their 1960s ideals for Machiavellian career plans. (Remember, this...

More »

Contact for Reprint Rights

Address: 258 Granby St., Norfolk, VA 23510
Phone: (757) 222-3939

www.portfolioweekly.com

More by Gregory Epps

Die Hard, Alreadynew

Data scrolling, keyboarding and flashing hard-drive lights do not build suspense nor make for compelling footage.

Port Folio Weekly | Gregory Epps | 07-23-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Len Wiseman, Live Free or Die Hard

More by Gregory Epps »

More by Port Folio Weekly

Perception is Everything in 'How to Look Good Naked'new

Patterned after a popular British program of the same name, the American version features blond and boyish Carson Kressley from Queer Eye for a Straight Guy, this time directing his gaze to women’s bodies.

Port Folio Weekly | Kathy Merlock Jackson | 01-31-2008 | TV

Tags: TV, How to Look Good Naked, Lifetime