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A turkey of a season? Dann sees a lot of films to be thankful for
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/20/2009
Hollywood's trade publication Variety has already dismissed the upcoming holiday movie season as "playing it safe" with "almost the same number of major releases, the usual number of Christmas Day launches, the same mix of prestige items and popcorn fare" as last year. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/20/2009
Hollywood's trade publication Variety has already dismissed the upcoming holiday movie season as "playing it safe" with "almost the same number of major releases, the usual number of Christmas Day launches, the same mix of prestige items and popcorn fare" as last year. FULL STORY
'Blind Side' a winning combination of grit, idealism
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/20/2009
I dreaded the press screening of "The Blind Side," because all the TV commercials and theatrical trailers made it look like just another fact-based white savior movie like "Glory," "Men of Honor" and "Glory Road." FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/20/2009
I dreaded the press screening of "The Blind Side," because all the TV commercials and theatrical trailers made it look like just another fact-based white savior movie like "Glory," "Men of Honor" and "Glory Road." FULL STORY
'New Moon' waxes romantic, wanes in humor
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/19/2009
You gotta feel sorry for Bella Swan. First, her vampire boyfriend disses her. ("You don't belong in my world, Bella!" he says.) Then, her werewolf boyfriend pushes her away. ("I'm not good!" he cries, "I used to be a good kid. Not anymore!") FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/19/2009
You gotta feel sorry for Bella Swan. First, her vampire boyfriend disses her. ("You don't belong in my world, Bella!" he says.) Then, her werewolf boyfriend pushes her away. ("I'm not good!" he cries, "I used to be a good kid. Not anymore!") FULL STORY
Elk Grove Theatres upgrade, expansion done
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Columnist
Posted 11/19/2009
The Elk Grove Theatres, part of the Classic Cinemas dynasty in the Chicago area, Wednesday will officially open four new auditoriums, bringing its theater count to 10. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Columnist
Posted 11/19/2009
The Elk Grove Theatres, part of the Classic Cinemas dynasty in the Chicago area, Wednesday will officially open four new auditoriums, bringing its theater count to 10. FULL STORY
Drawn-out sense of dread slows 'House of the Devil'
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/13/2009
Samantha, the cute college student, takes a baby-sitting job at a creepy old Victorian house in the boonies, and when she arrives, discovers the weird couple living there doesn't even have a baby. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/13/2009
Samantha, the cute college student, takes a baby-sitting job at a creepy old Victorian house in the boonies, and when she arrives, discovers the weird couple living there doesn't even have a baby. FULL STORY
'Twilight' vampire Lutz: This role is 'tough'
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/13/2009
If you don't know who Kellan Lutz is yet, you're not a screaming fan of last year's hit vampire movie "Twilight." Lutz is the 24-year-old South Dakota-born actor who plays Emmett Cullen, one of the vampire siblings of Edward Cullen, the hunky romantic interest of human teenager Bella Swan. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/13/2009
If you don't know who Kellan Lutz is yet, you're not a screaming fan of last year's hit vampire movie "Twilight." Lutz is the 24-year-old South Dakota-born actor who plays Emmett Cullen, one of the vampire siblings of Edward Cullen, the hunky romantic interest of human teenager Bella Swan. FULL STORY
'Paranormal' ending? I hated it
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/13/2009
Don't worry if you haven't seen the horror hit "Paranormal Activity." I will not reveal the ending here. However, I will say that I hated the last 15 seconds, because the cheesy jolt ending was completely out of sync with the well-mounted. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/13/2009
Don't worry if you haven't seen the horror hit "Paranormal Activity." I will not reveal the ending here. However, I will say that I hated the last 15 seconds, because the cheesy jolt ending was completely out of sync with the well-mounted. FULL STORY
'Pirate Radio' gives rock history a shallow ride
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/12/2009
If you go to see Richard Curtis' comedy "Pirate Radio" expecting to see something as heartfelt, profound and witty as his phenomenal directorial debut "Love, Actually," you will likely be disappointed. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/12/2009
If you go to see Richard Curtis' comedy "Pirate Radio" expecting to see something as heartfelt, profound and witty as his phenomenal directorial debut "Love, Actually," you will likely be disappointed. FULL STORY
Special effects don't save bloated doomsday thriller '2012'
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/12/2009
Roland Emmerich's epic doomsday thriller "2012" packs in everything anyone could ever want in a vintage 1970s disaster movie crammed with second-tier movie stars and outrageous special effects FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/12/2009
Roland Emmerich's epic doomsday thriller "2012" packs in everything anyone could ever want in a vintage 1970s disaster movie crammed with second-tier movie stars and outrageous special effects FULL STORY
3-D animated 'Christmas Carol' scary, not in a good way
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/5/2009
Tiny Tim looks like one of the malevolent young aliens from "Village of the Damned." Bob Cratchit looks like one of the innocent bystanders you accidentally shoot during a Wii action video game. So does Scrooge's nephew Fred. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/5/2009
Tiny Tim looks like one of the malevolent young aliens from "Village of the Damned." Bob Cratchit looks like one of the innocent bystanders you accidentally shoot during a Wii action video game. So does Scrooge's nephew Fred. FULL STORY
'Precious' is a bleak but hope-filled drama with fantastic acting
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/5/2009
It only takes a few scenes into the bleak, but hope-filled drama "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire" to realize you're in the presence of two commanding actresses whose courageous, uncompromising, full-bore performances rank among the decade's very best film achievements. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/5/2009
It only takes a few scenes into the bleak, but hope-filled drama "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire" to realize you're in the presence of two commanding actresses whose courageous, uncompromising, full-bore performances rank among the decade's very best film achievements. FULL STORY
'Fourth Kind' fragmented and frivolous
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/5/2009
Prepare to feel slightly conned by "The Fourth Kind." Every time something mysterious is about to happen on so-called "archival" video footage, the image goes haywire at just the second it promises to show us a glimpse of an alien presence or of an object floating over a house. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/5/2009
Prepare to feel slightly conned by "The Fourth Kind." Every time something mysterious is about to happen on so-called "archival" video footage, the image goes haywire at just the second it promises to show us a glimpse of an alien presence or of an object floating over a house. FULL STORY
Clooney and company milk 'Goats' for laughs
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/5/2009
It takes a quick 93 minutes for "The Men Who Stare at Goats" to dump a load of satirical napalm all over the U.S. military in a story so comically outrageous that when it cautions us, "More of this is true than you would believe," we can believe that. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 11/5/2009
It takes a quick 93 minutes for "The Men Who Stare at Goats" to dump a load of satirical napalm all over the U.S. military in a story so comically outrageous that when it cautions us, "More of this is true than you would believe," we can believe that. FULL STORY
'Omen' overload? Had it up to here with 'Halloween'? Try these nine
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/29/2009
Right about now, you probably want to scream when someone suggests another scary movie you can rent, buy or watch for the impending Halloween weekend. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/29/2009
Right about now, you probably want to scream when someone suggests another scary movie you can rent, buy or watch for the impending Halloween weekend. FULL STORY
Yes, Virginia, you can find a commercial-free movie theater
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/29/2009
I couldn't believe my eyeballs, but there it was in the Daily Herald movie ads buried in fine print: "No commercial ads shown before feature." FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/29/2009
I couldn't believe my eyeballs, but there it was in the Daily Herald movie ads buried in fine print: "No commercial ads shown before feature." FULL STORY
Movie lover scares up annual Flashback convention
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/23/2009
I know all about the sacrifices that Mike Kerz made to turn his dream of a horror convention into a reality. I met Mike when he was a manager at One Schaumburg Place Cinemas, and he had this crazy idea that if a celebrity came to visit, more people would know about the theater. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/23/2009
I know all about the sacrifices that Mike Kerz made to turn his dream of a horror convention into a reality. I met Mike when he was a manager at One Schaumburg Place Cinemas, and he had this crazy idea that if a celebrity came to visit, more people would know about the theater. FULL STORY
'Vampire's Assistant' loses its bite in latest incarnation
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/23/2009
When you come out of Paul Weitz's comic horror film "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," you don't feel like you've watched a real movie. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/23/2009
When you come out of Paul Weitz's comic horror film "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," you don't feel like you've watched a real movie. FULL STORY
Animated 'Astro Boy' fueled by fun -- but has a conscience, as well
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/23/2009
This movie had me at "What? I've got machine guns in my butt?" The slick, computer-animated action film "Astro Boy" will probably not please fans of Tezuka Osamu's original 1952 Japanese "manga" comic book about the adventures of a superpowered boy robot on a vaguely distant futuristic world. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/23/2009
This movie had me at "What? I've got machine guns in my butt?" The slick, computer-animated action film "Astro Boy" will probably not please fans of Tezuka Osamu's original 1952 Japanese "manga" comic book about the adventures of a superpowered boy robot on a vaguely distant futuristic world. FULL STORY
Willem Dafoe embraces controversial role in 'Antichrist'
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/23/2009
Most people probably know Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin from the first blockbuster "Spider-Man" movie. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/23/2009
Most people probably know Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin from the first blockbuster "Spider-Man" movie. FULL STORY
Whiny blogger movies hopefully won't become a trend
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/22/2009
Already this year, I've seen two movies about whiny, inferiority-complexed women who seek personal validation by writing blogs about their put-upon lives. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/22/2009
Already this year, I've seen two movies about whiny, inferiority-complexed women who seek personal validation by writing blogs about their put-upon lives. FULL STORY
'Wild Things' faithfully adapts classic children's story
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/16/2009
The problem with filmmakers taking an extremely short children's story and expanding it into a full-length feature film is that they're taking an extremely short children's story and expanding it into a full-length feature film. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/16/2009
The problem with filmmakers taking an extremely short children's story and expanding it into a full-length feature film is that they're taking an extremely short children's story and expanding it into a full-length feature film. FULL STORY
Father seeks crazed justice in smart 'Citizen'
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/16/2009
Take Charles Bronson's vigilante architect from Michael Winner's semi-classic "Death Wish" and mix him with Tobin Bell's insanely creative sociopath Jigsaw from the "Saw" movies, you'd roughly have the anti-hero of F. Gary Gray's conscience-slapping, MENSA-powered thriller "Law Abiding Citizen." FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/16/2009
Take Charles Bronson's vigilante architect from Michael Winner's semi-classic "Death Wish" and mix him with Tobin Bell's insanely creative sociopath Jigsaw from the "Saw" movies, you'd roughly have the anti-hero of F. Gary Gray's conscience-slapping, MENSA-powered thriller "Law Abiding Citizen." FULL STORY
Borgnine in Naperville for double feature
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/14/2009
Ernest Borgnine won the Oscar for playing the lead character in 1956's "Marty," but people remember him mostly as the cop married to Stella Stevens in the pivotal 1972 disaster thriller "The Poseidon Adventure." FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Film Critic
Posted 10/14/2009
Ernest Borgnine won the Oscar for playing the lead character in 1956's "Marty," but people remember him mostly as the cop married to Stella Stevens in the pivotal 1972 disaster thriller "The Poseidon Adventure." FULL STORY
'Couples' a marriage of the inane and the trite
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/9/2009
Hollywood must really have it in for Buffalo Grove. How else to explain why the Northwest suburb has been used as the setting for two inane and intelligence-abusing romantic comedies so far in 2009? FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/9/2009
Hollywood must really have it in for Buffalo Grove. How else to explain why the Northwest suburb has been used as the setting for two inane and intelligence-abusing romantic comedies so far in 2009? FULL STORY
Pardon the trailer trashing, but a commercial before a commercial?
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/8/2009
So where's the outrage? OK, outrage may be a little strong, but come on people. Look what's happening. I recently went online and called up a theatrical trailer to the new Bruce Willis thriller "Surrogates." What did I get? A TV commercial for a car company. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/8/2009
So where's the outrage? OK, outrage may be a little strong, but come on people. Look what's happening. I recently went online and called up a theatrical trailer to the new Bruce Willis thriller "Surrogates." What did I get? A TV commercial for a car company. FULL STORY
