"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 ...

As Beyoncé rings in her 33rd year, it feels like there's one part of her career no one talks about anymore, including Beyoncé herself: being a serious actress. Her entire Hollywood career basically ...

The blues and the origins of a record label are not an easy sell in Hollywood. So it's encouraging that "Cadillac Records" was even made. Writer-director Darnell Martin's uneven drama drives into ...

Sex had a sound? Danger had a rhythm? I'm asking these questions because I'm not sure if I believe them. The full trailer for Sony's Cadillac Records has finally debuted and it doesn't seem that ...

If you’ve heard Etta James’ “At Last” — and you probably have, in the background of a romantic movie or a restaurant — you’ve never forgotten it; it’s a lush, soulful wail of love finally found, of ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Chess Records, home of the Chicago blues, gets a low-down, sweat-soaked, smoke-filled and sometimes bloody valentine of a movie memorial in writer-director Darnell Martin’s “Cadillac Records.” It’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biopics are by nature formulaic, and music biopics even more so, so it should probably come as no surprise that Cadillac Records, which is essentially several music biopics in one, is all formula, all ...

Music biopics are nothing new; hell, just last year Judd Apatow mounted the comprehensive parody Walk Hard, which is a sure sign that the genre has officially cemented its conventions. As such, the ...

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 ...