Out this week on DVD and Blu-ray is the story of Chess Records, a music label based in Chicago that was the first to bring Mississippi blues to mainstream music.
The film chronicles the rise of Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody), Chess Records and its recording artists, including Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer) and the great Etta James (Beyonce Knowles). In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and...Read Full Story
On the next episode of The Double Down Film Show we’ll discuss the craft of directing with Writer/Director, Darnell Martin.
Darnell is a D.P. turned director who started out as an A.C. with Spike Lee’s outfit, 40 Acres and a Mule, before launching her own successful directing career. Apart from her most notable films, I LIKE IT LIKE THAT and CADILLAC RECORDS, Darnell has established a reputation as a skilled and efficient director of more than a decade of hit tv shows including LAW AND ORDER...Read Full Story
Starring: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles,
Director: Darnell Martin
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Running Time: 109 mins
MPAA Rating: R
Distributors: TriStar Pictures
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Cadillac Records focuses a minuscule amount of time to what Leonard Chess really did. He was the owner of an influential recording studio in the 1950s, along with his brother Phil (who we rarely see), who gave black men and women such as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Walter and Etta James an...Read Full Story
Film Reviews: 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 because she mines a righteous, mythic sensibility out of the story of Leonard Chess, Muddy Waters and the birth of the Chicago blues.Read Full Story
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The men, Ronald Rice, 27, and Darnell Martin, 31, are not considered suspects. The building housing Frida is part of a planned Frautschi redevelopment that, if granted city approval, could mean it would be dust by later this year. The redevelopment plan ...
The men, Ronald Rice, 27, and Darnell Martin, 31, are not considered suspects. The building housing Frida is part of a planned Frautschi redevelopment that, if granted city approval, could mean it would be dust by later this year. The redevelopment plan ...
Individuals can remain anonymous. Both Ronald Rice and Darnell Martin are persons of interest in this case; they are not suspects. They are being sought by the Madison Police Department for questioning only. Click on the PHOTOS tab above to view their photographs.
Individuals can remain anonymous. Both Ronald Rice and Darnell Martin are persons of interest in this case; they are not suspects. They are being sought by the Madison Police Department for questioning only. Click on the PHOTOS tab above to view their photographs.
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Darnell Martin (born January 7, 1964) is a television and film director. She is the first African-American woman to direct a movie produced by a major studio, Columbia Pictures I ...
Beyonce Knowles and co-star Adrien Brody were among those at the New York the premiere for their new film "Cadillac Records." Broadwayworld's cameras bring you all the Hollywood style celebration! On Monday, December 1, the movie drama/musical had a ...