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You might wanna listen up for a moment to a minute or two because we have it on good authority (or rather authoratay) that there's this small town in Tennessee where two unlikely souls are set to be drawn together at the sweat-drenched crossroads betwixt rage and that other thang called love. A small town where a 22 year-old local girl named Rae (to be assay by none other than the always watchable Christina Ricci) who's developed one of those kinds of reputations around town – you know, for having that kind of insatiable "itch" for sex that only the Mississippi delta breeds and that so many great bad movie heroines depend on, will be found beaten and nearly dead by the side of what one supposes will be a suitably cinematic the road.

Her rescuer will be another southern archetype . . . an ex-blues man, a "sold his soul at the crossroads" guitarist who's a little too used to life's trouble and sorrow (Samuel L. Jackson's Lazarus). Desperate for a change of pace, Lazarus decides to make Rae his prisoner until he can "cure" her of her wicked, wicked, ways. Fortunately, in order to get to the deep, dark down of hot young Rae's mysterious ailment, Jackson's Lazarus will have to first face down the darkness of the demons sleeping in both of their hearts, specially when Rae's true love Ronnie (here's where things really get weird, because that's where Justin Timberlake slips into this here picture), a National Guardsman who was supposed to on his way to get shot at in Iraq, comes looking for her. And believe it or not all that's going to be released into a theatre near you bearing the best title I've heard in ages:

"Black Snake Moan," even better, it will all come courtesy of Hustle and Flow's Craig Brewer . . .

"What blaxploitation flicks were to Hustle and Flow, your dry then mud-slap honey moon shiners and southern girls in daisy dukes shorts, that Gator Bait or I Spit On Your Grave, that kind of a visual esthetic, but I'm not doing a revenge pic. This is a movie where we are taking some of the most sexual and racially charged imagery [they could think up judging by the poster] and putting it into a movie where you look deeper and you find that these are human beings, but it is a movie that deals this wave of sexual addiction; this wave of heat that hits the character that Christina Ricci's playing."

I guess there really is a movie god, because the $13 million production produced by John Singleton and Stephanie Allain, is currently set to bereleased on July 13 2007 by Paramount Classics and MTV Films, despite its title and subject matter (and by the way, berfore you perves get carried away please allow me to point out that the title was inspired by a strange 1920's song recorded by voyager probe passenger and legendary bluesman Texas' Blind Lemon Jefferson).