Movie Reviews: Get On Up, The Homesman, No Good Deed

Get On Up (12A), Tate Taylor’s biopic of ‘the Godfather of Soul’, James Brown, is no ordinary rags-to-riches tale. 

The film is told in flashback, by Brown (Chadwick Boseman) himself, as he reflects on his incarceration in prison late in life, after surviving a horrific childhood to pioneer a soul-funk sound that has become, courtesy of innumerable samples, ubiquitous in contemporary music.