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 ...

Adrien Brody has played plenty of memorable roles, but every so often, you can tell one experience still sticks with him in a personal way. That is exactly how he talks about working with Beyoncé on ...

Brilliantly cast and ambitious to beat the band, "Cadillac Records" is a little movie that aims big. It tries to capture nothing less than the moment when white culture embraced black music and rock ...

“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, ...

Cadillac Records is by no means Mr. Wrights film alone, and his work is enriched by the skill and verve of a prodigious ensemble. The film is not thank goodness another dutiful musical biopic, but ...

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 about all of them with "Cadillac Records," cramming ...

There are two movies about the famed Chess Records making the rounds: "Who Do You Love," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the one you've heard of, "Cadillac Records." ...

From the sharecropper fields of Mississippi to the mean streets of Chicago, "Cadillac Records" tells the story of Chess Records, the groundbreaking label that crossed racial barriers and gave rise to ...

There was nothing synthetic about either, and that’s the heart of “Cadillac Records,” a film about the founding of Chicago’s Chess Records company. What became the home of a slew of 1950s and ’60s ...