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 ...

Mug shots of Mos Def as Chuck Berry from his arrest for driving with a white girl across state lines appear in front of smiling white teens surfing. The Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA,” a rip-off of Berry’s ...

*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" ...

For a film “based on a true story”—that of Leonard and Phil Chess’s eponymous record label, featuring the likes of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Howlin’ Wolf (Eamonn Walker), Etta James (Beyoncé ...

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 ...

Chess Records has long been overshadowed by two other legendary black music labels, Motown and Stacks. But it's now getting its time in the spotlight with the new film called "Cadillac Records." The ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rapper-actor Mos Def will play legendary rock 'n' roller Chuck Berry in "Cadillac Records," which is filming in New Jersey. Sign up here. Also joining the cast is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, ...