This is going to sound unforgivably glib, but in “El Cantante,” Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have created what amounts to the “Gigli” of music biz biopics. And it’s not just the fact that the film ...

“El Cantante,” the new biopic about salsa legend Hector Lavoe, gets right in your face. It’s loud, atmospheric and full of bravado. But even while it’s barking wildly at us, the film’s only skimming ...

The opening of Leon Ichaso’s biopic of salsa star Héctor Lavoe has a buzzy vitality that doesn’t prepare you for what a drag the rest of the movie is. Jennifer Lopez, as Lavoe’s long-suffering but ...

Life, image and fiction are at their blurriest whenever off-screen couples play couples in movies. The result can sizzle — Taylor and Burton in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — or be a vanity-laden ...

This final piece from ShoWest last week covers the few films I screened and wanted to mention. Primarily I want to focus on Disturbia, which I enjoyed quite a damn bit. I also saw El Cantante, a ...

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Over the past several years, I've cultivated an interest in Latin music -- Brazilian, Spanish, Puerto Rican, Mexican, etc. And though I know little about what sometimes separates those cultures, I ...

Director Leon Ichaso really rips into the first section of this biopic of Puerto Rican-born singer Hector Lavoe, who was at the forefront when salsa music caught on in the United States in the 1970s.

The Plot:See Hector Lavoe’s life through the 1970s and ’80s and how he formed and changed not just the salsa scene, but all of music. “El Cantante” (“the singer”) is an excellent bio-drama that raptly ...

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