CHICAGO – In anticipation of the scariest week of the year, HollywoodChicago.com launches its 2024 Movie Gifts series, which will suggest DVDs and collections for holiday giving.
James Brown
Blu-ray Review: James Brown Biopic ‘Get on Up’ Has No Soul
Submitted by NickHC on January 13, 2015 - 2:45pmCHICAGO – When people yawn about the dullness of movies based on life stories, they are certainly referring to films like “Get On Up,” an absurdly uninteresting portrait of a key figure of music, or so this movie claims. From the “The Help’s” vanilla visionary Tate Taylor, this 140-minute ode to James Brown is a half-assed argument about his nonpareil greatness, and full evidence that the biopic may be the weakest genre in film.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 ‘Get on Up’ Blu-ray Combo Packs With Chadwick Boseman as James Brown
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on January 7, 2015 - 9:03pm- Adam Fendelman
- Brandon Smith
- Brian Grazer
- Chadwick Boseman
- Craig Robinson
- Dan Aykroyd
- Fred Melamed
- Get on Up
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Combo Pack
- James Brown
- Jez Butterworth
- Jill Scott
- John-Henry Butterworth
- Josh Hopkins
- Lennie James
- Mick Jagger
- Nelsan Ellis
- Octavia Spencer
- Tate Taylor
- The Help
- Viola Davis
CHICAGO – In our latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Combo Pack giveaway, we have 10 free Blu-ray and DVD combo packs up for grabs for the home release of the Grammy-nominated James Brown story “Get on Up” starring Chadwick Boseman (“42,” “Draft Day”)!
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 20 Pairs of Passes to James Brown Story ‘Get on Up’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on July 27, 2014 - 12:18am- 42
- Adam Fendelman
- Brandon Smith
- Brian Grazer
- Chadwick Boseman
- Craig Robinson
- Dan Aykroyd
- Fred Melamed
- Get on Up
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film
- Jagged Films
- James Brown
- Jez Butterworth
- Jill Scott
- John-Henry Butterworth
- Josh Hopkins
- Lennie James
- Mick Jagger
- Nelsan Ellis
- Octavia Spencer
- Tate Taylor
- The Help
- Universal Pictures
- Viola Davis
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 20 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated new music biography “Get on Up” starring Chadwick Boseman (“42,” “Draft Day”) as James Brown!
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Soul Power’ Lacks Substance, Compensates With Soul
Submitted by mattmovieman on January 29, 2010 - 2:34pmCHICAGO – What can you say about a documentary that lands in theaters thirty-five years too late? “Soul Power” consists of footage from the historic three-night music festival in Zaire, meant to coincide with the heavily hyped “Rumble in the Jungle” between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. The events took place in 1974, and were filmed in order to spread African culture to the masses.
