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New Mexico theater decides not play ‘Gone With the Wind’

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque’s cultural services department called off a weekend screening of the classic movie “Gone With the Wind” at a city-owned theater because of concerns that it celebrat...

Fall movie lineup is full of promise

Summer 2017 is already going down in history as one of Hollywood’s worst in recent memory, notwithstanding such standouts as “Wonder Woman,” “Dunkirk” and the little-rom-com-that-could, “The...

Lawrence radiates grit in ‘mother!’

“mother!,” Darren Aronofsky’s tour de force of allegorical misdirection, is about many things, in succession and simultaneously. What begins as a creepily insinuating chamber piece of domest...

‘Sopranos’ mobster, veteran actor Frank Vincent dies at 80

NEW YORK – Frank Vincent, a veteran character actor who often played tough guys, including mob boss Phil Leotardo on “The Sopranos,” has died. He was 80. Vincent died peacefully o...

Movies playing in Durango Sept. 15-21

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) The Glass Castle (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)A young woman who, influe...

Why the new Reese Witherspoon movie ‘Home Again’ feels so familiar

Writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer is romantic comedy royalty. Her mother, Nancy Meyers, wrote and directed “It’s Complicated,” “Something’s Gotta Give” and “The Holiday,” among others. Bef...

Jennifer Lawrence suggests storms are ‘Mother Nature’s rage’

NEW YORK – Jennifer Lawrence is facing backlash online for suggesting that monster hurricanes that just devastated Texas and another nearing Florida may have been prompted by Donald Trump be...

‘It’ is a waking nightmare

There’s a reason that Stephen King’s 1986 novel about a demonic clown who terrorizes a group of children is called It and not Him. In King’s tale, which is now a feature film, it’s not the b...

Stephen King joins moviegoers for special screening of “It”

BANGOR, Maine – Movie fans attending a special screening of the movie “It” in Bangor, Maine, got a bonus: Author and local resident Stephen King joined them. King’s radio station,...

Movies playing in Durango Sept. 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 ...

The secrets to making a great Stephen King movie

Since the second half of 1983, when “Cujo,” “The Dead Zone” and “Christine” rolled into theaters, one after another, it’s been unofficial Hollywood writ that no Stephen King novel, novella o...

Harley Quinn teams with Batman in new movie

Harley Quinn’s animated homecoming is quite the grown-up affair in Warner Bros. Animation’s latest straight-to-home-video DC Comics movie. Harley Quinn is now a movie star (“Suici...