Honoring a bionic career
Durango Independent Film Festival to honor Lindsay Wagner with first-time award
DATE: Feb 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
What Leonardo DiCaprio was really like before he got famous
Leonardo DiCaprio as an adult is a heartthrob, a smooth-talker, a romancer of supermodels. Leonardo DiCaprio as a teenager was so nervous around girls that he turned to his “Growing Pains” c...
DATE: Feb 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
'Friends' creators talk about the show's legacy
On Sunday, cast members from shows such as “Taxi,” “Cheers,” “Frasier,” “Will and Grace” and “The Big Bang Theory” will salute veteran sitcom director James Burrows in the NBC special “Must ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
The Jesse Owens biopic 'Race' argues that sports are always political
Though Hollywood had a baffling tendency to ignore African-American viewers and African-American actors for much of the rest of the year, February and Black History Month tend to bring a res...
DATE: Feb 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
‘Race’ the story of Jesse Owens
The list of truly memorable movies about track and field is a short one, including “Chariots of Fire,” “Personal Best,” “Saint Ralph,” “Without Limits” and a handful of others.
Ma...
DATE: Feb 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 5-11
Animas City Theatre
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)
Anomalisa
A man struggles with his inability to connect with other people. Ra...
DATE: Feb 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
The surprising optimism of Michael Moore's 'Where to Invade Next'
In the middle of the lead crisis in his home town of Flint, Michigan, and a hotly contested Democratic primary, the last thing you might expect from the crusading filmmaker Michael Moore is ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Don’t ask David Cross about ‘Arrested Development’
The distinctive comedy of David Cross may be most widely known from his role as the eccentric Tobias Fünke on the television show “Arrested Development.” But he gained fans from his HBO sket...
DATE: Feb 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
'How to Be Single' is raunchy, rote and not terribly romantic
Dakota Johnson makes for an oddly recessive heroine in “How to Be Single,” an earnest but awkwardly misshapen attempt to reconcile the archaic conventions of romantic comedy with the 21st-ce...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
‘Anomalisa’ – You’ve never seen anything quite like this
Whether you’re at the airport or stuck in traffic on the way to work or in a crowded restaurant, you’re the star of the movie of your life.
You might have a co-star in the form of...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
‘Zoolander 2’ doesn’t impress
For “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” the third installment of the franchise in 2002, a bounty of big-name celebrities, from Tom Cruise to Katie Couric to Danny DeVito to John Travolta to Gwyne...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 5-11
Animas City Theatre
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)
Anomalisa
A man struggles with his inability to connect with other people. Ra...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
