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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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’...

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...

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...

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...
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