At 2 hours and 18 minutes, the James Brown biopic “Get On Up” runs exactly two hours longer than the knockout YouTube clip of the real Mr. Dynamite performing up a storm in 1964’s “The T.A ...

One could describe Boseman's performance in "Get on Up" as electrifying, and that would not be wrong. But it's more accurate to say that watching Boseman transform into James Brown, who died in ...

Now Playing "Get On Up" starts strong but can't quite keep it up. The new James Brown biopic "Get On Up" is certainly hardest working biopic in show business - at least it feels that way, with all ...

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“Get on Up” finds a way to capture James Brown's genius that makes this fantastic, funk-tastic biography stand apart. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 62°F.

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Condensing an eventful, famous life into a movie that lasts a few hours is always a tough task. Successful biopics of the past decade chose instead to concentrate upon specific, ...

When director Tate Taylor called on costume designer Sharen Davis to suit up his cast for the energetic "Get On Up," a biopic of soul singer James Brown that covers multiple decades, she was ...

Get on Up does it best early on with Boseman’s casual one-liner, “Ya’ll cats might not own my records but you can bet your bottom dollar, every record you got got a piece of me in ‘em.” ...

Get on Up is directed by Tate Taylor, who also helmed The Help and Ma. The biopic follows Brown’s stream of consciousness — Boseman often breaks the fourth wall to express the singer’s emotions.