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Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo on their journey to ‘Selma’

LOS ANGELES – Ava DuVernay doesn’t like historical dramas – especially those of the civil rights variety. Their conventions, their sentimentality, their lack of texture or edginess, and thei...

DATE: Jan 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

The questions we should be asking about 'Selma'

Since its Dec. 25 release, “Selma,” Ava DuVernay’s movie about Martin Luther King Jr., President Lyndon Baines Johnson and the leadup to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has been under attack ...

DATE: Jan 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

'Foxcatcher' subject Mark Schultz angry over how he was portrayed

Like clockwork, the debates over the historical accuracy of this year’s awards hopefuls have commenced. When Oscar voting begins, so does the urgent scrutiny of based-on-real-life dramas. Cu...

DATE: Jan 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Jan. 2-8

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Citizenfour In January 2013, Laura Poitras was several years into making a fi...

DATE: Jan 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Still Showing

Gaslight Twin Cinema (102 Fifth St., next to the railroad depot, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com) Diplomacy. (Wednesday only) As the Allies march toward Paris in sum...

DATE: Jan 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

History Channel film delves into peculiar life of Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci – as portrayed by Peter Capaldi in “Inside the Mind of Leonardo” – is a bit of an odd duck (if “portrayed” is even the right word). Dressed in contemporary cloth...

DATE: Jan 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

At the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away

Real world intersected, and sometimes clashed, with film plots

DATE: Jan 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Stage, screen actor Edward Herrmann dies at 71

Edward Herrmann, the towering, melodious-voiced actor who brought Franklin D. Roosevelt to life in films and documentaries, won a Tony Award and charmed audiences as the stuffy dad on TV’s “...

DATE: Jan 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Morocco’s banning of ‘Exodus’ film causes controversy

RABAT, Morocco – Morocco has banned Ridley Scott’s biblical epic “Exodus,” provoking an angry response by politicians and filmmakers in this North African country. Morocco’s film...

DATE: Dec 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Activist to drop 100,000 copies of 'The Interview' on North Korea by balloon

International tensions over “The Interview” may not be dying down just yet. A South Korean activist has dreamed up a way to deliver the Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy about an ass...

DATE: Dec 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

You might not know them ... but you will

Meryl Streep. Amy Adams. Christoph Waltz. Reese Witherspoon. Sound familiar? Might as well start engraving the Oscar statuettes for them now. Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Alicia Vi...

DATE: Dec 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Interview’ earns just $2 million at the box office – but kills it online

For those more interested in gift receipts than box-office receipts over the holiday: “The Interview” did not come away with the biggest post-Christmas take. That honor belonged t...

DATE: Dec 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming