Before the Romans, there were the Etruscans, a mysterious but sophisticated civilization that deeply influenced the ones that succeeded it. Tarquinia, on the west coast of Italy, was an ancient ...

Black Snake Moan isn’t really a movie about music, but it might want to be. The movie is Craig Brewer’s follow-up to Hustle & Flow, which was definitely about music, and it stars a couple of musicians ...

If you scrape it down to the bare bones, "Black Snake Moan" is just another story about two people forced to face their tortured pasts. However, that would be denying the film due credit. While it ...

When "Hustle & Flow" burst on to movie screens two years ago, it made a racket: Not only did the movie present a breakout performance by Terrence Howard as a pimp turned rapper, but it seemed to ...