Film academy seems to favor industry movies
Many winners focus on fame
DATE: Feb 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Review: Hot Tub Time Machine 2
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A sweaty cash grab that gives a bad name to sequels in which key talent has jumped ship, Steve Pink’s “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” leaps forward rather than backward in time a...
DATE: Feb 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Review: The DUFF
All teen comedies owe some debt to John Hughes and Amy Heckerling.
The milieu of suburban teenage life that they explored decades ago has defined the genre since. The social divi...
DATE: Feb 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Review: McFarland, USA
The difference between “McFarland, USA” and “Cool Runnings,” “Remember the Titans,” “The Rookie,” “Miracle,” “Glory Road” and “Million Dollar Arm” is this one is about cross-country. ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 13-19
Gaslight Cinema
(102 Fifth St. Next to the railroad depot, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com)
Inside the Mind of Leonardo
(Wednesday only) The film is based...
DATE: Feb 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 13-19
Animas City Theatre
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)
Birdman
A black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton)– fa...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service
If the North Koreans hired an inspired and gutsy director, gave him tens of millions of dollars for a budget and could somehow persuade Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Michael Caine to...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Review: Fifty Shades of Grey
Curious? The posters for “Fifty Shades of Grey” coyly ask.
Whether or not you’re one of the 100 million who bought, and presumably read, E L James’ kinky book, the buzz alone sur...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Movie love lost this Valentine’s Day
Usually during the end of January and the beginning of February, decent-to-mediocre, romance-themed movies are released right in time for Valentine’s Day.
But this year, it looks ...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Review: Seventh Son
There’s a fine line between charm and cheese in fantasy epics, and movies as silly and overwrought as “Seventh Son” only help to illustrate just how hard it is to hit the right tone when bal...
DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 6-12
Animas City Theatre
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)
Whiplash
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer trying to rise to ...
DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Review: Jupiter Ascending
The world of “Jupiter Ascending” is bursting with vivid details: wolf-man hybrids and flying lizard warriors, invisible spaceships and volcanic kingdoms. The Wachowski siblings, the writing-...
DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
