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Review: What if we didn’t meet the Beatles?

The whimsical what-if comedy “Yesterday” poses the intriguing question: Had the Beatles never existed, would the world be a worse place to live? Related: If you were a struggling ...

Movies playing in Durango June 28-July 4

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Enter the Dragon (Monday only) One of the most popular kung fu films ever, and perhaps the peak of the famed B...

Movies playing in Durango June 21-27

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Bolshoi Ballet: Carmen Suite/Petrushka (Sunday only) Carmen finds herself caught in a love triangle. Petrushka...

‘Gosh!’ Cult comedy ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ turns 15

SALT LAKE CITY – The cult comedy “Napoleon Dynamite” turns 15 years old this month, a milestone for a movie that became an early breakaway hit in today’s era of pop-culture geek celebration....

In ‘Late Night,’ Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling deliver sparkling wit and surprising sweetness

Forget national treasure: Emma Thompson could rent herself out as a national utility. In the alternately sharp-edged and generous-hearted comedy “Late Night,” she is so radiant, so utterly i...

New Mexico film industry up amid abortion fights elsewhere

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s film industry appears to be on the brink of a boom thanks to abortion law controversies in other states and expanded incentives. A recent spike in film pro...

Movies playing in Durango June 14-20

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Wayne’s World Originally a skit on “Saturday Night Live” during the late ’80s and early ’90s, “Wayne’s World” ...

X-Men’s probable swan song a dirge

“Dark Phoenix” isn’t kidding about the “dark” part. The latest, and probably final, chapter in the X-Men superhero saga is a somber, even funereal affair – not in a stylish, Christopher Nola...

‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’: Not a good dog, but an OK one

All dogs are good dogs. Oh, sure, yours might poop in a shoe from time to time, or snatch a snack from the counter. But overall, the human race would be a lot better if we all strove – dogge...

Movies playing in Durango June 7-13

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Amazing Grace Concert footage from 1972 of Aretha Franklin performing songs from the best-selling gospel album...

Explosion on ‘Bond 25’ set causes injury, damage to studio

NEW YORK – An explosion on the set of the new James Bond movie has injured one crew member and damaged a stage at Pinewood Studios. The film’s official Twitter account said the ac...

Taron Egerton shines in an oddly dark ‘Rocketman’

It’s almost unfair that “Rocketman,” a new movie about the rise, fall and rise of Elton John, is being released just months after the Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The echoes a...