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 about sex, fantasy, and betrayal in prison. Several theatrical productions were mounted before filmmaker Hector Babenco turned the story into an Oscar-winning film starring Raul …
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You haven’t heard of Oliver. Not yet, at least. You’d recognize the type, though. He’s a twentysomething British pop singer, blessed with a brooding handsomeness and a soulful, sad-boi sound — a little bit of the Weeknd, a whole lotta Zayn — that’s extremely Spotify-friendly. He’s famous enough to have …
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How much do you love your significant other? Let’s rephrase the question: Do you love them so much that you can’t bear to be apart from them? Like, literally apart from them? Midway through Together, the debut feature from Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks, a character trots out Plato’s theory of …
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There’s a period in every relationship you might call the “supernova” phase — when everything is fresh and new, the attraction and lust burn blindingly bright, and you can’t get enough of each other. The couple at the center of Oh, Hi! are a textbook example of this Paleolithic period …
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Something’s wrong with Agnes. It’s hard to pinpoint, at first. She’s got a lot going on. Agnes is smart, wicked funny, and, given she’s just been promoted to a full-time English professor at the college where she works, what you might traditionally characterize as successful. It’s the same northeastern liberal …
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For more than four decades, Park City, Utah, hosted the Sundance Film Festival. But now it’s moving to Boulder. After years of consideration, the Sundance Institute’s Board of Trustees announced Thursday that the Colorado town will host its first Sundance in January 2027. (Next year’s Sundance will take place in …
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Sundance 2025 will be remembered as what’s probably the penultimate year that film festival calls Park City home, as well as the edition that gave us a body-horror rom-com (IRL couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco’s gloriously disgusting Together), an introduction to a major new triple-threat talent (Eva Victor’s Sorry, …
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Back in the 1990s, there was no bigger musical superstar than Alfred Moretti. “Global” doesn’t begin to describe his level of fame. His particular brand of old-school glam rock, new-school electro-pop and sheer charisma meant he topped every chart imaginable. He reinvented genres, cavorted with presidents and popes, broke Cindy …
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It’s all the same (only the names have changed): A man, and it’s always a man, starts chatting online with what he believes to be an underage boy or girl. The conversation either immediately or eventually turns explicitly sexual. He decides to take things one step further and arrange an …
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It’s extremely hard not to gush over Jeff Buckley. An Adonis with an four-octave range, the singer-songwriter had the sensitivity of an early-Seventies folkie, the melody-meets-muscle rock chops of an early-Nineties grunge practitioner, and a frontman sex appeal that was timeless. He counted Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Led Zeppelin, and …
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