"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 ...

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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 ...

“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, ...

The movie Cadillac Records enlists an all-star cast — including Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright and Beyonce Knowles — to tell the story of Chess Records, a label synonymous with classic blues and early ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...