(121 mins, 15)
Directed by Bryan Barber; starring Andre Benjamin, Big Boi, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard

This is a period gangster movie with a gifted all-black cast of actors. Set in Georgia in the Thirties, it's produced and performed by Andre Benjamin and Antwan A Patton, better known as Andre 3000 and Big Boi of the hip-hop team OutKast. It's an African-American variation of Jack Webb's infinitely superior Pete Kelly's Blues and stars Benjamin and Patton as childhood friends, one the son of an undertaker, the other the son of a bootlegger.

They grow up to follow their father's professions while also performing in a rowdy, sexy Prohibition night club called Church, which a suave gangster (cool, handsome Terrence Howard) is putting the squeeze on. It's a flashy movie directed by music-video specialist Bryan Barber, features anachronistic music and has little sense of period.