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Review: ‘Good Boys’ a surprisingly sweet comedy about raunchy side of tween boy life

Much has been made of how “Good Boys” – an R-rated comedy about a trio of sixth-grade nerds caught up in a misadventure involving drugs, sex toys, beer and slapstick mishaps – looks like a j...

Review: Cate Blanchett is both otherworldly and lovable in ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’

Spiky, passionate, fierce and broken, the titular heroine of Maria Semple’s hilarious and touching novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” is one of the great characters in recent literary fictio...

‘Easy Rider’ star and writer Peter Fonda has died at 79

LOS ANGELES – Actor Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right after both writing and starring in the counter-culture classic “Easy Rider,” has died....

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...

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...

Story behind fake MAD magazine and TV Guide covers in ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’

Quentin Tarantino knew just what he wanted when he sought a fake Tarantino, ever exacting about period detail, wanted a custom cover that looked as if it were nearly six decades old – as m...

Universal cancels controversial ‘Hunt’ in wake of shootings

NEW YORK – Universal Pictures has canceled the planned September release of its controversial social thriller “The Hunt” in the wake of recent mass shootings and criticism from President Don...

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...

Danny Trejo ‘superpowers’ to help save child

Actor Danny Trejo was about to drop off his 1965 Buick Riviera for repairs when he saw the sedan next to him run a red light and hit a Ford Explorer, flipping the silver SUV. The “Machete” s...

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...