“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, ...

André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

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 fond memories of working with Beyoncé in Cadillac Records. The actor, 52, and the singer, 44, starred together in the 2008 film, which followed Chicago-based record-company executive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

Beyoncé is famous for her singing career, but many fans also remember her impressive roles in movies like Dreamgirls and ...

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 ...

not holding a person but a piece of music. The thing that does not know how to stop singing—this is Beyoncé. A being that talks like a tune, walks like tune, looks like tune—this is Beyoncé. Pop is ...