"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, ...

Adrien Brody and Jeffrey Wright in 'Cadillac Records.' Darnell Martin could have made an entire movie about Muddy Waters. Or Etta James. Or Chuck Berry. Instead, the writer-director has made a movie ...

*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" ...

André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

Starring Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Mos Def, Eamonn Walker, Jeffrey Wright and Columbus Short B+ If I had realized that Darnell Martin was the writer/director, I'd have gone to see Cadillac ...

Martin’s fictionalization of the rise and fall of Chicago’s Chess Records (1950-68) uses the declamatory blues song “I’m a Man” as its theme, and follows several men attempting to assert that fact ...

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 ...

Approaching the blues with the enthusiasm of an overcaffeinated brass band, helmer Darnell Martin nonetheless makes some kind of music with the percolating '50s biopic "Cadillac Records" -- mostly ...

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 ...