If you haven't heard about Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson and Justin Timberlake's Southern Gothic exploitation movie, Black Snake Moan, you may have been living under a movie-free rock. Ricci plays a bad, bad girl who must learn to mend her ways under the racially and sexually fraught tutelage of jazz musician Jackson. How shall he do that? Why chain her to the radiator until she repents of course. One of this movie's key words......

Once the beauty and longing of Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai's films get their hooks into you, it's difficult to break free. And really, who would want to? Gothamist knows we're a willing captive to his emotionally distant characters, sumptuous settings and deliberate pacing. For the last week, Anthology Film Archives in the East Village has been screening a series of Wong's work in "6 x Wong Kar Wai," a partial retrospective. If you......

It's all rumor, in Gothamist's book, but Screen Daily claims there are Asian films going into production based on the SARS episdemic. One, a "comedy drama, the film is divided into three stories: the first about Hong Kong’s medical workers; the second a love story about a boy and girl who meet when their building is quarantined and the third about a businessman who tries to deliberately catch SARS after the disease makes him go......