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Meat Loaf sues hotel, blaming negligence for disabling fall

FORT WORTH, Texas – Meat Loaf has filed a lawsuit against a hotel at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and organizers of a horror convention held there, blaming them for negligence whe...

Cannes appoints Spike Lee to lead

PARIS – American director Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the first black person to hold the post in the event’s 73-year history. Festival organi...

Review: Kristen Stewart can’t save ‘Underwater’ from sinking

Welcome to January, which, in terms of quality movies, is the worst, the lowest, the abyss. Actually, that’s pretty accurate when it comes to the latest, straight-to-January relea...

Bye, Ricky Gervais: Poehler, Fey to host 2021 Golden Globes

PASADENA, Calif. – Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will share host duties for the Golden Globes ceremony in 2021. Poehler herself shared the announcement at a TV critics meeting Saturday...

Movies playing in Durango Jan. 10-16

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: The Lehman Trilogy (Saturday and Sunday only) The story of a family and a company that changed the wor...

A technical feat, ‘1917’ is great storytelling, too

It’s been a good time for World War I buffs – especially if they’re also movie buffs. A year ago, director Peter Jackson applied state-of-the-art technology to century-old war footage to bri...

Sundance Film Festival aims for more movie critic diversity

SALT LAKE CITY – A Sundance Film Festival program designed to increase diversity among media members covering the annual event in Park City boomed in popularity in the initiative’s second ye...

Movies playing in Durango Jan. 3-9

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: Midsummer Night’s Dream A feuding fairy king and queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lov...

Netflix set to film Western in New Mexico

Movie stars Idris Elba and is co-produced by Jay-Z

Movies playing in Durango Dec. 27-Jan. 2

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) JoJo Rabbit A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when...

Songwriter Allee Willis, who wrote ‘Friends’ theme, dies

LOS ANGELES – Allee Willis, a songwriter whose work included the Broadway musical “The Color Purple” as well as the theme song from the TV show “Friends” and Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,...

‘Uncut Gems’ mines best of Sandler’s talent

By now, we shouldn’t be too surprised by this cultural contradiction known as Adam Sandler. It’s obvious that Sandler, the actor, is capable of extraordinary range – not in the tr...