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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Beyoncé rings in her 33rd year, it feels like there's one part of her career no one talks about anymore, including Beyoncé herself: being a serious actress. Her entire Hollywood career basically ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Darnell Martin’s Cadillac Records tells the story of Chicago’s Chess Records and the seminal blues artists it launched, among them Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, and Etta ...

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 ...