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The Boss co-directs his first movie: A concert documentary with some extras

“Western Stars,” a new documentary co-directed by and starring Bruce Springsteen, swaggers across the landscape like a cinematic epic, but it’s basically a concert flick, with some extras. A...

DATE: Oct 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ goes darker in this bleak and, most unforgivably, boring sequel

Disney’s revisionist “Maleficent” took the “Sleeping Beauty” story that inspired the studio’s own 1959 animated classic and turned it upside down, right on the horned head of its titular pro...

DATE: Oct 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ repeats what worked in the first film, to good effect

There’s a repetitive – but not necessarily redundant – quality to “Zombieland: Double Tap,” a violent, funny and satisfying sequel to the 2009 cult hit zombie comedy about a quartet of human...

DATE: Oct 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

REEL ROCK 14 celebrates climbers

Backcountry experience hosts annual film tour

DATE: Oct 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ eyes future

Joel Hodgson is putting on the red jumpsuit for the last time. He started playing Joel Robinson in 1988, “just another face” – per the old “Mystery Science Theater 3000” theme song – who did...

DATE: Oct 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Will Smith’s ‘Gemini Man’ is an ambitious experiment gone horribly wrong

It feels appropriate that the hit man clone thriller “Gemini Man” is itself a Frankenstein’s monster of a movie. Over the past two decades, the project was written and rewritten by a small a...

DATE: Oct 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for ‘Jackie Brown,’ dies at 78

LOS ANGELES – Robert Forster, the handsome and omnipresent character actor who got a career resurgence and Oscar nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in “Jackie Brown,” died Frida...

DATE: Oct 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Tom Hanks returns to New Mexico to film adventure saga

SANTA FE – Tom Hanks is in New Mexico working on another film. The New Mexico Film Office announced Wednesday that Hanks is co-producing and starring in “News of the World,” a pos...

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Oct. 11-17

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) High Anxiety (Sunday only) This is Mel Brooks’ spoof of more than 10 Alfred Hitchcock classics, including “Psy...

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Netflix’s ‘Living Undocumented’ probes plight of migrants

ALBUQUERQUE – After two decades in the U.S., Alejandra Juarez thought she had it made. She came to the country illegally after fleeing violence in Mexico but had built a middle-cl...

DATE: Oct 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Security, N.Y. incident leave some unsettled after ‘Joker’

Extra layers of security, intense on-screen action and a frightening incident inside a New York theater combined to create an unsettling experience for some moviegoers who went to see “Joker...

DATE: Oct 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Joaquin Phoenix is a vivid, operatic Joker, but the movie is way too full of itself

From the hysterical levels of overpraise, concern-trolling and general hype that have greeted “Joker,” casual observers might assume that it’s either genius, right-wing propaganda or some di...

DATE: Oct 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming