Dann Gire
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Offbeat premise makes for wildly entertaining 'Big Game'Jun 25, 2015 6:00 am - Mini-review: 'Big Game' The outrageous plot in Jalmari Helander's ridiculous Finnish action adventure "Big Game" sounds like the twisted fantasy of a radical President O...
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'Overnight' cuts to the comic core of social anxiety, meeting new friendsJun 25, 2015 5:30 am - Mini-review: 'The Overnight' Writer/director Patrick Brice's racy, low-key comedy "The Overnight" qualifies as a social horror movie, complete with suspense, plot twists...
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Gire: MacFarlane's 'Ted 2' a bearly funny sequelJun 24, 2015 10:00 am - For a moment, you might think that Seth MacFarlane's gross and uncouth comedy sequel "Ted 2" could be a wacky political metaphor for American slavery, or at least the id...
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Montini grad steers acting dream to TNT's 'Last Ship'Jun 23, 2015 5:30 am - Kevin Michael Martin did the unthinkable at Montini Catholic High School in Lombard: He dropped sports for acting. "Actually, I really wasn't into the whole acting thing...
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'Wolfpack' is messy but fascinating viewingJun 18, 2015 6:00 am - Mini-review: 'The Wolfpack' Crystal Moselle's documentary "The Wolfpack" makes for a journalistic mess of unanswered questions and glossed-over details. Still, the sheer...
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Gire: 'Dope' deals in smart comic actionJun 18, 2015 5:45 am - "Dope" is one dope movie about dope being chased by dopes. It's partly a Guy Ritchie-style crime tale, partly a "Risky Business" high school capitalism lesson, partly a ...
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'Phantom Halo' a noiry, seedy crime dramaJun 18, 2015 5:30 am - Mini-review: 'Phantom Halo' Just in time for Father's Day weekend comes the seedy crime drama "Phantom Halo," Antonia Bogdanovich's directorial debut, featuring the wors...
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Pixar goes totally emo in animated psyche trip 'Inside Out'Jun 17, 2015 7:00 am - Scientific researchers have determined that humans possess anywhere from four to 27 separate emotions. Pixar chose five of them to star in its weirdest, trippiest and mo...
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10 movie dads: the good, the bad, the snuglyJun 16, 2015 11:00 pm - Happy Father's Day! To commemorate this fine occasion, you can: 1) Buy dad a necktie he'll never wear again. 2) Play catch with him in the rain (a 50 percent chance as o...
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Risky 'Dying Girl' defies conventions ... and winsJun 11, 2015 6:15 am - Mini-review: 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' Just from the title, you can tell that "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" is going to be risky, something different that defi...