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Stanley Donen, director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ dies at 94

LOS ANGELES – Director Stanley Donen, a giant of the Hollywood musical who through such classics as “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Funny Face” helped give us some of the most joyous sounds and i...

DATE: Feb 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Durangoan to screen film about epic river journey during Durango Independent Film Festival

Annual movie extravaganza to start Wednesday

DATE: Feb 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 22-28

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: I’m Not Running (Saturday only) Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring lea...

DATE: Feb 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Isn’t It Romantic’ is a rom-com parody for people who hate rom-coms (but also secretly love them)

The comic actress Rebel Wilson makes any movie better – and frequently steals the show. She did it in “Pitch Perfect,” among many other films in which she plays the second lead, with a combi...

DATE: Feb 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Happy Death Day 2U’ keeps the ‘Groundhog Day’ premise and goes back to the future

The 2017 thriller “Happy Death Day” took a “Groundhog Day”-like concept – a young woman must relive the same day, over and over – and put it in service of a largely uninspired college-set ho...

DATE: Feb 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, star of ‘Downfall,’ dies at 77

BERLIN – Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Adolf Hitler cooped up in his Berlin bunker in “Downfall” and an angel in Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire,” has died. He was 77. German n...

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

The long-awaited ‘Alita’ isn’t a good movie – it’s more like four lousy ones

We have to talk about the eyes. There they are, staring from the screen like saucers – or, as some have pointed out, like the glare of Gollum – in nearly every frame of “Alita: Ba...

DATE: Feb 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

There’s another horror movie involving a creepy kid, and it’s actually really good

Creepy children are a mainstay of the horror genre. Going back to “The Bad Seed” and beyond, children have proved capable of unnerving audiences with a combination of precocious dialogue and...

DATE: Feb 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part’ is a hilarious if at times disjointed sequel

Like a well-engineered tower of brightly colored building blocks, the Lego movie franchise, now four films strong, achieved its zenith with “The Lego Batman Movie,” a 2017 stand-alone spinof...

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

‘Free Solo’ film about El Capitan conquest gets TV debut

PASADENA, Calif. – Makers of the “Free Solo” documentary about Alex Honnold’s unaided climb up the rock face of Yosemite’s El Capitan say they would have still made the film if Honnold had s...

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

Albert Finney, whose bawdy role in ‘Tom Jones’ earned him the first of five Oscar nominations, dies at 82

Albert Finney, a revered British actor who found worldwide acclaim in 1963 as the raffish 18th-century roustabout Tom Jones, and who carved an independent path as a stage actor and in films ...

DATE: Feb 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 8-14

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: Madness of George III (Saturday only) It’s 1786, and King George III is the most powerful man in...

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

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

About a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

The Durango Herald’s year in photos 2025

Photos: Chapman Hill fires up the snow guns

Photos: Wreaths Across America at Greenmount Cemetery in Durango

Photos: Durango High School girls basketball plays Piedra Vista High SchoolPanthers left Durango with 37-29 win on Tuesday night

Panthers left Durango with 37-29 win on Tuesday night

Photos: Noel Night in downtown Durango

Stanley Donen, director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ dies at 94

Durangoan to screen film about epic river journey during Durango Independent Film Festival

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 22-28

‘Isn’t It Romantic’ is a rom-com parody for people who hate rom-coms (but also secretly love them)

‘Happy Death Day 2U’ keeps the ‘Groundhog Day’ premise and goes back to the future

Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, star of ‘Downfall,’ dies at 77

The long-awaited ‘Alita’ isn’t a good movie – it’s more like four lousy ones

There’s another horror movie involving a creepy kid, and it’s actually really good

‘The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part’ is a hilarious if at times disjointed sequel

‘Free Solo’ film about El Capitan conquest gets TV debut

Albert Finney, whose bawdy role in ‘Tom Jones’ earned him the first of five Oscar nominations, dies at 82

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 8-14

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