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Netflix draws flak for show about Mexico City elites

Netflix’s new reality show in Mexico hasn’t even premiered yet and already it’s garnering plenty of attention – a lot of it negative. Netflix announced Monday that “Made In Mexico...

Danny Boyle departs James Bond over ‘creative differences’

NEW YORK – The next James Bond movie has lost its director. Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, along with star Daniel Craig, announced Tuesday that Danny Boyle...

Review: ‘Alpha’ is a boy-meets-wolf love story

Sweet, strange and at times slightly scary, the ice age fable “Alpha” tells the origin story of man’s best friend. You could call it “Dog Zero,” for the way it portrays the first wild wolf t...

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 24-30

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: Macbeth (1 p.m. Sunday only.) Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy explores the dam...

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is an escapist rom-com delight, but it’s also a lot more than that

“Crazy Rich Asians,” the hotly anticipated film based on Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, won’t disappoint fans who have been counting down the days till its arrival, like so many daisy peta...

‘BlacKkKlansman’ Spike Lee’s best movie in years

Among Spike Lee’s prodigious filmmaking talents, opening sequences are perhaps his most distinctive. He creates ambitious, operatic overtures for his films, mini-movies that introduce viewer...

‘Queen of Soul’ had feature role in Durangoan’s film

Aretha Franklin played Mother Nature in ‘Snow Monsters’

YouTube criticized for showing terrifying horror movie ad that viewers couldn’t click away from

The YouTube ad begins with a volume sign, its familiar white bar dancing left then right before finally switching to mute. For one second, there is only the mute sign against a black backgro...

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 17-23

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Yerma (1 p.m. Sunday only) A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a ...

This rom-com for dog lovers is entertaining, but it has some fleas

A galumphing comedy offered as a balm for the late summer doldrums, “Dog Days” crossbreeds romantic clichés with cute canines and inspired bits of offbeat humor. As a mutt, it possesses a ce...

‘Meg’ is big but has no teeth

Notwithstanding its obvious similarities to a certain summer-of-’75 blockbuster about a great white shark, the new “Jaws”-on-steroids thriller “The Meg” – about a 75-foot shark – may remind...

A revamped Oscars

LOS ANGELES – The Oscars are adding a new category to honor popular films and promising a brisk 3-hour ceremony and a much earlier air date in 2020. John Bailey, the newly re-elec...