Review: This ode to Springsteen and the power of music may be the feel-good movie of the summer

Arriving like a fresh gust of wind off the Jersey Shore during a largely torpid summer, “Blinded by the Light” goes one better than the jukebox musicals that have played like barely warmed-o...

Hickenlooper quits Democratic presidential race

Former Colorado governor says he’s mulling Senate run

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 16-22

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Indian Horse In late 1950s Ontario, 7-year-old Saul Indian Horse is torn from his Ojibway family and committed...

Francis Ford Coppola on ‘Apocalypse Now’ 40 years later

NEW YORK – If filmmaking is a war, then “Apocalypse Now” was very nearly Francis Ford Coppola’s Waterloo. The battles Coppola fought while making his 1979 epic nearly destroyed hi...

Review: Mob wives turn mobsters in ‘The Kitchen,’ a pale shadow of last year’s similarly themed ‘Widows’

A bunch of guys try to pull of a heist, which goes drastically wrong. The women they leave behind pick up the pieces to embark on a life of crime that’s as cathartically liberating as it is ...

Review: There’s no treasure to be found in the boring ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’

At some point in time, a live-action version of “Dora the Explorer” must have seemed like a good idea. After all, the animated TV series has, for eight seasons, been a bilingual cash cow for...

Chevel Shepherd talks about life after ‘The Voice’

Singer to take stage Friday at La Plata County Fair

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 9-15

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) North by Northwest (Sunday only) While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roge...

Army recruiters released their first rap video this year; it wasn’t exactly a mic drop

The 3-minute music video for the song “Giving All I Got” has many of the hallmarks of an archetypical hip-hop production: shots of men in hoodies walking in slo-mo down a graffiti-filled cor...

Kevin Costner plays a dog in the sappy tear-jerker ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’

“Sometimes I hate who I am.” In most movies, an expression of such existential angst is to be expected from the lips of a troubled teen – or a conflicted killer. But in the overhe...

‘Indian Horse’ movie to open Aug. 11 at Animas City

Film details horrors of Canadian Residential Schools

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 2-8

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Monday only) When a couple air-headed rock-star wannabes are faced with the ...