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 ...

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.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In the 1950s and 1960s so many talented and influential musicians passed through the doors of Chess Records in Chicago that it ...

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 ...

The swirl of history -- and history-making music -- energizes "Cadillac Records," the chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago's legendary Chess Records, the 1950s music powerhouse that brought to ...

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 ...