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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

How do you play a master painter? First: Learn to paint

NEW YORK – Talk about suffering for your art. Achieving his acclaimed performance as the masterful British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner in “Mr. Turner” took so much out of Timo...

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

Will ‘The Interview’ change how Hollywood does business?

LOS ANGELES – “The Interview” was never supposed to be a paradigm-shifting film. But unusual doesn’t even begin to describe the series of events that transpired over the past few weeks, culm...

DATE: Dec 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Wild

Cheryl Strayed, as played by Reese Witherspoon in Jean-Marc Vallee’s “Wild,” is, bless the Lord, not an easily discernable type. She’s also not the sort we’ve often encountered o...

DATE: Dec 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: The Gambler

“If you’re not a genius, don’t bother,” the English professor played by Mark Walhberg in “The Gambler” blithely tells his students. That should be one clue that you’re not gonna like this gu...

DATE: Dec 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Dec. 19-25

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Rosewater “Rosewater” is based on the memoir Then They Came for Me: A Family’...

DATE: Dec 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Amy Adams finds the quiet strength in Margaret

LOS ANGELES – Amy Adams didn’t connect with the character of Margaret Keane when she first read the script for “Big Eyes.” She cannot remember whether it was right before or right...

DATE: Dec 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Angelina Jolie’s latest incarnation: filmmaker

NEW YORK – In a life that has been notable for its many metamorphoses – screen starlet, Goth vixen, United Nations ambassador, mother of six, breast cancer awareness advocate – Angelina Joli...

DATE: Dec 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies: 5 alternatives to ‘The Interview’

LOS ANGELES – Kim Jong Un isn’t alone. Queen Elizabeth II, Saddam Hussein and Pope Pius XIII have also been the targets of wacky assassination attempts on film. But tho...

DATE: Dec 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

At 87, 'Big Eyes' artist Margaret Keane finally gets her Hollywood break

NAPA, Calif. – Margaret Keane still feels guilty. Never mind that it was Walter, her husband at the time, who launched the art world lie that seduced the media and movie stars and...

DATE: Dec 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: The Hobbit

With a sum total of 1,032 minutes, Peter Jackson’s six J.R.R. Tolkien films have earned more than $5 billion worldwide. They have made New Zealand synonymous with Middle-earth. And they have...

DATE: Dec 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming