Jennifer Lopez is not one of those actresses who disappear into a role. For one, she’s too famous to allow the audience to separate artist from character entirely. Often, those characters, whether ...

Jennifer Lopez comes up just a little short in a movie about the escapist power of musicals. By Elisabeth Vincentelli When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

Adaptations are a funny thing. In 1976, author Manuel Puig published the novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, which he then adapted into a stage play in 1983. 1985 saw the release of the film adaptation, ...

There have been odder page-to-stage, stage-to-screen, screen-to-song-and-dance-extravaganza case studies than Kiss of the Spider Woman, which began life as Argentine writer Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel ...

Watching Jennifer Lopez hoof it in an old-school Hollywood musical is a sight – like where has this been all our lives? – though she isn’t even the best part of “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Director ...