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The streaming age is making it easier than ever to discover great movies

I’ve written about why physical media has the edge over digital when it comes to making sure you have access to your movies for years to come. But streaming and digital certainly have a plac...

We’ve been waiting for ‘Shazam!’

“Why is my body changing?” That’s the unspoken cry of every teenager in every coming-of-age movie. It also happens to be the struggle of the reluctant superhero in “Shazam!,” the latest offe...

Movies playing in Durango April 5-11

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Apollo 11 A cinematic space event film 50 years in the making. Featuring never-before-seen large-format film f...

Movies playing in Durango March 29- April 4

Gaslight Theatre (102 Fifth St. Next to the railroad depot, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com) Dumbo A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling ...

Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ remake is decidedly – and deliciously – dark

Tim Burton’s remake of “Dumbo” – a live-action and CGI version of Disney’s 1941 classic about a flying baby elephant – is more an expansion of the original than simply a souped-up retread. F...

Kiowa writer finally gets the film he deserves

‘Words from a Bear’ gives glimpse of indigenous literary giant Momaday

Jordan Peele’s follow-up to ‘Get Out’ will give you nightmares – but in ‘Us,’ it’s the performances that you’ll remember

“Us,” Jordan Peele’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to his smash hit “Get Out,” can’t help but be compared to that earlier movie. As a politically minded genre exercise combining horror and h...

Movies playing in Durango March 22-28

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Bolshoi Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty (Sunday only) On her 16th birthday, Princess Aurora falls under the ...

Filmmaker David Lynch teaching a class about creativity

LOS ANGELES – According to filmmaker David Lynch, all it takes are 70 ideas to make a feature film. The visionary mind behind “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive” and “Twin Peaks” is...

Lou Pearlman was a disgraced mogul who defrauded ’90s boy bands – then came the $300 million Ponzi scheme

Before he was implicated in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, Lou Pearlman’s lies started to unravel at a meal with ’N Sync at a Los Angeles steakhouse. Sitting ar...

‘Wonder Park’ is a movie about a girl with an overactive imagination, made by people who have none

It’s safe to assume that any animated movie made for children will probably not entirely cleave to reality. When a tale pretty much starts off with a talking mouse, you know things are going...

‘Five Feet Apart’ is the movie for you if you’re 15 and have a crush on Cole Sprouse

Full disclosure: I am so not the target demographic for “Five Feet Apart,” a mushy, three-hankie weeper that is aimed squarely between the eyes of every 15-year-old girl with a crush on Cole...