Movies - The Durango Herald

‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Kill Bill’ actor Michael Parks dies at 77

NEW YORK – Michael Parks, a prolific character actor and a favorite of directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has died. He was 77. Parks’ agent, Jane Schulman, says the acto...

DATE: May 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango May 12-18

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) The Princess Bride (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(Wednesday only) A lowl...

DATE: May 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ improves on the first

In 2014, the groovy, lighthearted “Guardians of the Galaxy” was a breath of fresh air, at least when it comes to superhero movies. Then, like now, there was a trend to make every comic book ...

DATE: May 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Guardians 2’ is bigger, better

With a title slyly evoking the music-compilation aesthetic embodied by its 1970s-hit-heavy sound track, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” manages to re-create the formula of self-aware, snark...

DATE: May 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango May 5-12

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) The Zookeeper’s Wife (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)The time is 1939 and...

DATE: May 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Val Kilmer announces ‘healing of cancer’

Val Kilmer says he’s had “a healing of cancer” months after saying he didn’t have cancer. The 57-year-old actor made the comment in a question-and-answer session on Reddit. ...

DATE: May 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Circle’ isn’t half bad, but it’s only half good

“The Circle,” a technological thriller starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, didn’t screen for critics, usually a sign of fatally damaged goods. But the movie, an adaptation of a 2013 Dave Egg...

DATE: Apr 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Another JonBenét Ramsey movie? Yes, but this one is different

Last fall’s glut of 20th-anniversary television specials on the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey felt like a race to the bottom: Which program would most grotesquely exploit the 1996 killi...

DATE: Apr 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Remembering Jonathan Demme

“If the story’s worth telling, I’ll tell it. And, arguably, everybody’s story is worth telling.” That was Jonathan Demme speaking during an interview 10 years ago, as he prepared ...

DATE: Apr 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Jonathan Demme, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ director, dead at 73

NEW YORK – Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” and whose Talking Heads documentary “Stop Making Sense” is considered one of the great...

DATE: Apr 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango April 28-May 4

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) The Big Lebowski (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(May 3 only) In 1991, une...

DATE: Apr 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Film good, but not quite ‘Gifted’

The tale of a rancorous battle for custody of a motherless mathematical prodigy, “Gifted” manages, for the most part, to rise above not just the “Kramer vs. Kramer” dynamic of a kindhearted ...

DATE: Apr 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming