Many artist biopics celebrate their subjects. “Get On Up” doesn’t make it that simple. In the best scene from Tate Taylor‘s biopic of James Brown with Chadwick Boseman as the Godfather of Soul, Brown ...

At the beginning of the James Brown biopic, Get On Up, a strung-out Brown (Chadwick Boseman) walks into an insurance seminar in 1988 with a shotgun and causes a scene because someone used his private ...

"He stayed in character not because that was his method," Tate Taylor writes in a new tribute, "but because he became James Brown." As Taylor explains it, Boseman stayed in character as James Brown ...

Biopics, especially musical biopics, are both an easy sell and a tough nut to crack. Like the most resilient of sub-genres, the formula is so tried and true that to stray from it is to avoid what is ...