The show-stopper is a three-song extravaganza — Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Super Bad and Soul Power — from the 1971 Olympia theater concert in Paris.

Overall, Get On Up does what great cinema is supposed to do: it’s transformative, it’s engaging, and even when it’s rendering James Brown’s ugliest moments, it is beautiful.

And he said, 'Well, this is my grandfather.' He came in and he just did it.” For “Get On Up” to succeed, audiences will have to agree. They'll be able to see for themselves on August 1, 2014.

“Get on Up,” a safe biopic about Godfather of Soul James Brown, doesn’t do either. Played with impressive validity and agility by Chadwick Boseman (“42”), the legend (who died in 2006 ...

“Get on Up” covers many key moments of the singer’s adult life, including his decision to put his own money into the hugely successful “Live at the Apollo” album after no one else ...

'Get On Up' star said he worked five to eight hours a day with a choreographer. — -- When Chadwick Boseman was approached about taking on the complicated, soulful, split-loving role of James ...

Two very different movies - Get On Up and Guardians of the Galaxy -are equally good in their own way and with rain in the forecast this weekend I'm happy to tell you that I can recommend both.

We get that Brown was a complicated egomaniac who made great music. But even as “Get On Up” magnifies that point, it creates the lingering sense that the singer has overtaken the stage one ...