"Cadillac Records" comes from Sony Music Film, so it's no surprise that the project is more a soundtrack in search of a movie than a film about the pre-eminent blues record label of the 1950s and '60s ...

Jeffrey Wright does Muddy Waters justice, but Beyonc and Mos Def fall short. Just as Joaquin Phoenix did a marvelous job capturing the music and spirit of Johnny Cash in the film Walk the Line, ...

“Cadillac Records” is a story about Chess Records. But it is not THE story of the Chicago label that helped birth both electric blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Every historically based film truncates, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. We know Beyonce is all over the upcoming "Cadillac Records" movie and soundtrack, led off by her version of Etta James' "At Last" ...

Good, bad, or somewhere in between, ‘Cadillac Records’ would be an enjoyable experience for someone not even watching the screen. A film about the rise of Chess Records, which recorded ...

First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured among its stable of artists Muddy ...