Movies - The Durango Herald

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...

DATE: Mar 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

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...

DATE: Mar 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

‘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...

DATE: Mar 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘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...

DATE: Mar 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango March 15-21

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(For showtimes, visit www.animascitytheatre.com). Gaslight Theatre (102 Fifth St. Next to the...

DATE: Mar 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Captain Marvel’ – Marvel’s first movie built around a woman – is not the empowering thrill it wants to be

There’s cosmic significance in “Captain Marvel” – the first female-led installment of the seemingly endless Marvel Studios Avengers franchise – opening on International Women’s Day. As a sto...

DATE: Mar 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango March 8-14

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(For showtimes, visit www.animascitytheatre.com). Gaslight Theatre (102 Fifth St. Next to the...

DATE: Mar 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Netflix to make ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ series

NEW YORK – Netflix has acquired the rights to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” one of the most celebrated novels of the 20th century. The streaming compan...

DATE: Mar 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Johnny Depp sues ex-wife for $50 million in defamation lawsuit

FAIRFAX, Va. – Actor Johnny Depp is suing his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, in a $50 million defamation lawsuit, citing a piece she wrote for The complaint, filed Friday in the Circuit Cour...

DATE: Mar 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Nathaniel Taylor, who played Rollo on ‘Sanford and Son’ dies

Nathaniel Taylor, the actor best known as Rollo Lawson, the street-smart best friend of the son on the 1970s sitcom “Sanford and Son,” has died. Taylor died Wednesday at the Ronal...

DATE: Mar 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Movies playing in Durango March 1-7

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(For showtimes, visit www.animascitytheatre.com). Gaslight Theatre (102 Fifth St. Next to the...

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

‘Greta’ is a psychological thriller with a regrettable, pseudo-feminist twist

The psychological thriller “Greta” gets off to a promising start: As a camera discreetly follows Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz through a New York City subway, Julie London sings a ...

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