Movies - The Durango Herald

#WeAreGroot: How Hollywood is reacting to James Gunn’s Disney firing

In the weekend after writer-director James Gunn was ousted from Disney/Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” stars from his $1.6 billion film franchise and other Hollywood colleagues ha...

DATE: Jul 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Celebrities offer singer Demi Lovato support after reports of hospitalization for apparent overdose

Several celebrities, including recent collaborators, publicly offered support for Demi Lovato amid reports that the pop singer had been hospitalized after an apparent overdose. Si...

DATE: Jul 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Movies playing in Durango July 27-Aug. 2

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (“20 Feet from Stardom”), ...

DATE: Jul 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Williams’ Mexican-American roots explored in PBS film

ALBUQUERQUE – Ted Williams is the last major league baseball player to hit over .400. The Boston Red Sox slugger captivated millions with his dazzling swing and towering homers throughout th...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Airman who inspired ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’ film has died

NORFOLK, Va. – Adrian Cronauer, the man whose military radio antics inspired a character played by Robin Williams in the film “Good Morning, Vietnam,” has died. He was 79. Mary Mu...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango July 20-26

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Hearts Beat Loud Widower and aging Brooklyn hipster Frank starts a band with his teenage daughter Sam ju...

DATE: Jul 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Clint Eastwood film set to begin production in New Mexico

‘The Mule’ traces story of elderly drug courier

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

No surprises in ‘Skyscraper’

There are few surprises delivered in “Skyscraper,” an entertaining if middlebrow thriller whose very name – blandly descriptive, generic – seems to advertise its fungibility. Take...

DATE: Jul 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Swinging ’60s styles up for auction from Sharon Tate estate

LOS ANGELES – Mini-dresses and a wedding dress are among the items from estate of actress Sharon Tate are going up for auction. Tate starred in the 1967 film “Valley of the Dolls”...

DATE: Jul 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Producers plan movie about Thai cave rescue

NEW YORK – The boys are out of the cave. Now Hollywood wants in. The producers behind Christian films like “God’s Not Dead” are already in Thailand with plans to develop a movie a...

DATE: Jul 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Release of fifth ‘Indiana Jones’ movie pushed to 2021

NEW YORK – Indiana Jones won’t be swinging back into movie theaters until at least 2021. The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday announced that the planned fifth installment in the “Indian...

DATE: Jul 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Ultra-violent B-movie ‘The First Purge’ confronts our real-life anxieties

Since the original 2013 “Purge” film, the franchise has struggled to develop its undeniably intriguing premise: What would happen if all crime, including murder, was legal every year for 12 ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2018 | 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