Get On Up

Tim Gordon of FilmGordon.com has been reviewing movies for 22 years so he’s seen a LOT of movies so you don’t have to. We caught up to this film expert to find out what he liked among this year’s Black film releases. Here’s his list of the best Black movies of the year and as […]

Tom Joyner packed out the Magic Johnson Theater in Harlem, NY this weekend for the release of the James Brown biopic, ‘Get On Up’ starring Chadwick Boseman, Jill Scott, Craig Robinson, Viola Davis and Tika Sumpter. And as promised, our resident funny man, J. Anthony Brown came in full costume to pay homage to the soul […]

The Godfather of Soul gets the big screen treatment with “Get On Up,” which follows James Brown from his humble beginnings to becoming one of…

He went by many names. Mr. Dynamite. The Hardest Working Man In Show Business, Soul Brother #1 and of course, his given name, James Brown. Now Brown gets his well-deserved biopic Get On Up. It covers the course of his life from childhood through to his heyday, including growing up in abject poverty, the abandonment […]

Playing James Brown, once known as the hardest working man in show business couldn’t have been easy. But actor Chadwick Boseman, who also portrayed Jackie Robinson in 42, was up for the challenge. In Get On Up, the Anderson, South Carolina native channels the Godfather of Soul, rendering the musical icon as a flawed human […]

Russ Par chats with Chadwick Boseman, who plays James Brown in the highly anticipated biopic “Get On Up!” in theaters August 1st, about his experience playing James Brown and all the buzz surrounding the movie! Find out how much of the movie includes actual moments from James Brown’s life, whether Chadwick got to actually sing in the […]

Even though James Brown had a history of domestic violence in his relationships, Jill Scott doesn’t think he was a monster. The “Golden” diva will…