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"The Day the Earth Blew Up“ is the first-ever fully animated loony tunes feature-length movie created for a cinema audience. (Courtesy of IMDb)
Movies playing March 14-20

Stadium 9

900 Translux Drive, Durango, 247-9799, www.allentheatresinc.com

Novocaine

When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back. Rated R.

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A loony tunes Movie

Porky and Daffy are unlikely heroes and Earth’s only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion. In this buddy-comedy of epic proportions, they race to save the world, delivering all the laugh-out-loud gags and vibrant visuals that have made the loony tunes so iconic, but on a scope and scale yet to be experienced. It’s going to be out of this world! Rated PG.

Last Breath

Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface. Based on a true story. Rated PG-13.

Queen of the Ring

An extraordinary, true-life tale that follows Mildred Burke, the legendary professional wrestler and single mom who defied incredible odds to become the first million-dollar female athlete and longest reigning champion at a time when the sport was banned across most of America. Rated PG-13.

Mickey 17

Mickey 17, known as an “expendable,” goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet. Rated R.

My Dead Friend Zoe

Merit, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran, is at odds with her family thanks to the presence of Zoe, her dead best friend from the Army. Despite the persistence of her VA group counselor, the tough love of her mother and the levity of an unexpected love interest, Merit’s cozy-dysfunctional friendship with Zoe keeps the duo insulated from the world. That is until Merit’s estranged grandfather – holed up at the family’s ancestral lake house – begins to lose his way and needs the one thing he refuses ... help. At its core, this is a buddy film about a complicated friendship, a divided family and the complex ways in which we process grief. Rated R.

Night of the Zoopocalypse

After a meteor unleashes a virus that turns zoo animals into zombies, a mountain lion and wolf lead a team of surviving animals to stop the virus and rescue their zoo. Rated PG.

The Rule of Jenny Pen

Arrogant Judge Stefan Mortensen suffers a near-fatal stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed and confined to a retirement home. Resistant to the staff members and distant from his friendly roommate, Mortensen soon clashes with seemingly gentle resident Dave Crealy who secretly terrorizes the home with a sadistic game called “The Rule of Jenny Pen” while wielding his dementia doll as an instrument of cruelty. What begins as childish torment quickly escalates into far more sinister and disturbing incidents. When Mortensen’s pleas to the staff go unanswered, he takes it upon himself to put an end to Crealy’s reign of terror. Rated R.

Captain America: Brave New World

High-flying hero Sam Wilson has officially taken up the mantle of Captain America. After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red. Rated PG-13.

Paddington in Peru

When Paddington discovers his beloved aunt has gone missing from the Home for Retired Bears, he and the Brown family head to the jungles of Peru to find her. Determined to solve the mystery, they soon stumble across a legendary treasure as they make their way through the rainforests of the Amazon. Rated PG.

Mufasa: The Lion King

Rafiki relays the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka – the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group of misfits searching for their destiny – their bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening and deadly Foe. Rated PG

Gaslight Twin Cinema

102 E. Fifth St., Durango, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com

Black Bag

A spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country. Rated R.

Anora

Ani is a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya’s parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York. Rated R.

The Monkey

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree, forcing the estranged siblings to confront the cursed toy. Rated R.