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.

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 ...

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 ...