"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 ...

There are certain films – let’s call them Road Map Movies – that drive you directly from point A to point B to point C, with barely a stop for gas. “Cadillac Records” is such a film: You see all the ...

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 ...

While it tells the story of an exciting period in American pop culture, “Cadillac Records” winds up being so trite, tidy and two-dimensional that you would swear you were watching a late-night ...

I don't know enough about Chess Records' inner workings to tell you if Martin got it right. But her film obliterates the memory of the label's co-founder, Leonard's brother Phil, and injects a bizarre ...

In 1948, Muddy Waters kick-started his career by recording one of his best-known songs, “I Can’t Be Satisfied.” Don’t surprised if real blues fans and scholars of early rock ‘n’ roll are singing a ...

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 ...

The soundtrack from the Chess Records/Etta James musical drama “Cadillac Records” totals itself in a smashup of mixed intentions. Unable to decide whether it wants to feature actors singing blues ...

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 ...

Watching the scrappy, passionate Cadillac Records (Sony) only a week after the wondrous Milk, I found myself musing: What if we tried to be kinder to the biopic? It’s a genre that takes so much flak ...