Given the lives of subjects Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, Etta James, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf and Leonard Chess, Cadillac Records should be a slam dunk of a biopic — a film rife ...

Cadillac Records (R) TriStar (109 min.) Directed by Darnell Martin. With Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles. Opens Friday at theaters in New Jersey. TWO AND A HALF STARS No other ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The narrative finds all of the above in Chess Records, the Chicago-based label that housed such luminaries as Muddy Waters, Little Walter Jacobs, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf and Etta James. The ...

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 ...

Beyoncé Knowles will executive produce and star in 1950s period movie Cadillac Records. By Alex Fletcher Published: 20 February 2008. ... Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry. What to Read Next.

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 great Chess roster included Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James, […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. ... Movie Review: ‘Cadillac Records’ Share this: Click to share on ...

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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 ...