Despite early hype, Kiss of the Spider Woman has had a less-than-glorious release (Picture: Sony Pictures Entertainment) Kiss ...

Everyone is familiar with their hits “Cabaret” and “Chicago”, said Clive Davis in The Times. Yet John Kander and Fred Ebb’s ...

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J-Lo makes the best of latest musical adaptation of 1976 novel but much about production feels underpowered and poorly ...

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, ...

1983, Argentina. Towards the end of the Dirty War, political prisoner Valentín (Diego Luna) toils in his prison cell. His new ...

Kiss of the Spider Woman, as adapted for the screen by writer-director Bill Condon, is both a film version of the 1993 Broadway musical and a love letter to big old-fashioned movie musicals of the ...

Tonatiuh and Diego Luna as Molina and Valentín, respectively, in Kiss of the Spider Woman. The new film is based on the Broadway musical of the same name, itself based on the 1976 book by Manuel Puig.

Bill Condon's Kiss of the Spider Woman challenges a belief I've long held: that in order for a musical to succeed, it must have memorable musical numbers. For these reasons alone, this movie shouldn't ...