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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Defiant Career of Chadwick Boseman, a Hollywood KingHe had the talent to be James Brown, Jackie Robinson, Black Panther, and Stormin’ Norman. He was a chameleon and a pure actor in every sense.