Movies - The Durango Herald

‘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...

DATE: Jun 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

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...

DATE: Jun 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

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...

DATE: Jun 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

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...

DATE: Jun 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

The latest Godzilla movie delivers on visual brawn but lacks brains

Despite featuring two of cinema’s biggest stars (literally), Warner Bros.’ budding MonsterVerse – a franchise built around the characters of Godzilla and King Kong – inexplicably hasn’t gott...

DATE: Jun 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Octavia Spencer as a horror-movie villain? Yes, and she’s actually really good

As a movie villain, the titular mischief-maker of the psychological horror film “Ma” – an unhinged middle-aged enabler whose house becomes Party Central for a gaggle of teens looking for a p...

DATE: May 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango May 31-June 6

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...

DATE: May 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

The ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ movie has been pushed to next year because of the teeth debacle

Making Valentine’s Day plans can be stressful, so how lucky for us that Paramount has already come up with a suggestion for next year by pushing the release date of “Sonic the Hedgehog” to F...

DATE: May 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Aladdin’ remake charms, in a clumsy sort of way

Right off the bat, you can tell that Disney’s live-action “Aladdin” has avoided some of the missteps of the original animated film. The lyrics of the song “Arabian Nights,” which is sung in ...

DATE: May 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Theme park to star ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Twilight’

LOS ANGELES – Some of Lionsgate’s most popular film franchises from “Hunger Games” to “Twilight” will be brought to life when the studio opens what it calls the world’s first vertical theme ...

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business

Movies playing in Durango May 24-30

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Farmer of the Year When Hap Anderson, a widowed 83-year-old Minnesota farmer who thinks he’s still quite the l...

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Book World: John Waters wants to wrap you in his filthy embrace

On a grimy peninsula off the mainland of good taste, in a Baltimore far from the threatening realism of “The Wire,” still reigning over his own personal filthdom, lives the original Pope of ...

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books