In a desperate bid for a better life, a young James Brown (Chadwick Boseman) breaks into a car to steal a suit, leading to an arrest that lands him behind bars. It is a gorgeously somber sequence that ...

"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 ...