"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, ...

In Cadillac Records, writer/director Darnell Martin’s ambitious attempt to capture Chess Records’ iconic era in American Music, the flaws present themselves almost as soon as the opening credits roll.

“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, ...

That’s the way it goes with the blues, the music’s historical chapters filled with myths and half-truths, stories getting written down only after being handed down from one generation to another. The ...

*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" ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "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 ...

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 ...