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, ...

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.

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 ...

These words are spoken by the main characters of the latest rendition of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” in which two men in a brutal Argentine prison distract themselves from horrors by bonding over ...