In last year's "42," Chadwick Boseman played baseball legend Jackie Robinson as a man suppressing his pride and bottling up his anger. It was a portrayal of understated dignity that was all about ...

Boseman's portrayal of baseball legend Jackie Robinson in 42 last year drew plenty of applause. His transformation into James Brown, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, could land him on the ...

Boseman wasn’t exactly a perfect physical match for the late, great James Brown, but he made audiences believe in his on-screen persona in Get on Up. This music biopic chronicled the rise and ...

Whereas James Brown was a walking volcano, a Dionysian spirit. But in “Get on Up,” damned if Boseman, with his Apollonian aura, doesn’t become Dionysius in a soul-man coif.

Supercharged by Chadwick Boseman’s tour de force as the iconic Godfather of Soul, James Brown — and pitch-perfect music supervision by producer and longtime devotee Mick Jagger — “Get On ...

To play James Brown, the hardest-working man in show business, Get on Up star Chadwick Boseman took an appropriately industrious approach. “The man did his homework,” Jill Scott, who plays ...

If you thought the recent “Jersey Boys” was stodgy and problematic, here's a music movie that avoids that other film's pitfalls: It places Brown (Chadwick Boseman, in an electrifying ...

But critics who’ve gotten an early look at “ Get On Up,” a biography of James Brown from “The Help’s” Tate Taylor, suggest that Chadwick Boseman’s performance as the Hardest Working ...

Words + Pictures, the documentary production studio behind Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, are reportedly developing ...

42 star Chadwick Boseman portrays the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, in a new warts-and-all biopic from the director of The Help, and ET's Rocsi Diaz is exclusively on the Mississippi set!

Whereas James Brown was a walking volcano, a Dionysian spirit. But in “Get on Up,” damned if Boseman, with his Apollonian aura, doesn’t become Dionysius in a soul-man coif.

Add to list On my list Chadwick Boseman flat-out nails his performance as James Brown in “Get On Up.” (D Stevens/D Stevens/Universal Pictures) By Jen Chaney Jen Chaney Bio Follow July 31, 2014 ...