Movies - The Durango Herald

Boxer LaMotta, immortalized in ‘Raging Bull,’ dies at 95

MIAMI – Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film “Raging Bull,” for which Robert De Niro won an Academy Award, has died, his ...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Linda Hamilton set to return to ‘Terminator’ franchise

NEW YORK – Linda Hamilton is returning to the “Terminator” franchise for the first time since 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” “Terminator” creator James Cameron announced Ham...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

New Mexico theater decides not play ‘Gone With the Wind’

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque’s cultural services department called off a weekend screening of the classic movie “Gone With the Wind” at a city-owned theater because of concerns that it celebrat...

DATE: Sep 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fall movie lineup is full of promise

Summer 2017 is already going down in history as one of Hollywood’s worst in recent memory, notwithstanding such standouts as “Wonder Woman,” “Dunkirk” and the little-rom-com-that-could, “The...

DATE: Sep 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Lawrence radiates grit in ‘mother!’

“mother!,” Darren Aronofsky’s tour de force of allegorical misdirection, is about many things, in succession and simultaneously. What begins as a creepily insinuating chamber piece of domest...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Sopranos’ mobster, veteran actor Frank Vincent dies at 80

NEW YORK – Frank Vincent, a veteran character actor who often played tough guys, including mob boss Phil Leotardo on “The Sopranos,” has died. He was 80. Vincent died peacefully o...

DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Sept. 15-21

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) The Glass Castle (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)A young woman who, influe...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Why the new Reese Witherspoon movie ‘Home Again’ feels so familiar

Writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer is romantic comedy royalty. Her mother, Nancy Meyers, wrote and directed “It’s Complicated,” “Something’s Gotta Give” and “The Holiday,” among others. Bef...

DATE: Sep 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Jennifer Lawrence suggests storms are ‘Mother Nature’s rage’

NEW YORK – Jennifer Lawrence is facing backlash online for suggesting that monster hurricanes that just devastated Texas and another nearing Florida may have been prompted by Donald Trump be...

DATE: Sep 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘It’ is a waking nightmare

There’s a reason that Stephen King’s 1986 novel about a demonic clown who terrorizes a group of children is called It and not Him. In King’s tale, which is now a feature film, it’s not the b...

DATE: Sep 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Stephen King joins moviegoers for special screening of “It”

BANGOR, Maine – Movie fans attending a special screening of the movie “It” in Bangor, Maine, got a bonus: Author and local resident Stephen King joined them. King’s radio station,...

DATE: Sep 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Sept. 8-14

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(For showtimes, visit www.animascitytheatre.com) Gaslight Theatre (102 Fifth St. Next to the ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming