"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 ...

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 always ambitious, sometimes entertaining, but despite some great music is a disappointing new film about the early days of blues, rock and roll, racism, and the legendary record ...

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. In the 1950s and 1960s so many talented and influential musicians passed through the doors of Chess Records in Chicago that it ...

Film starring Beyonc Knowles and Adrien Brody to be released Dec. 5 by Tristar Pictures World-renowned film composer and trumpet player Terence Blanchard has completed the score for Cadillac Records, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...