Dann Gire
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'Boyhood' or 'Birdman'? Predicting best picture Oscar gives Dann 'Whiplash'Feb 17, 2015 10:00 pm - Let's start with Oscar's slam-dunks, shall we? Five-time nominee Julianne Moore will win the best actress Academy Award Sunday for her portrait of a university professo...
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'Fifty Shades' starts strong, then goes off the railsFeb 12, 2015 8:00 am - This movie ends with two words: "Anastasia." "Christian." Then came more words from the audience at a Wednesday night sneak preview of "Fifty Shades of Grey," and they w...
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'Old Fashioned' feels more like a play than a movieFeb 12, 2015 5:00 am - Mini-review: 'Old Fashioned' Rik Swartzwelder's romantic drama “Old Fashioned” operates like an overwritten, first draft of a stage play translated into a movie, bu...
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Spike Lee taps into horror with 'Da Sweet Blood'Feb 12, 2015 4:15 am - Mini-review: 'Da Sweet Blood of Jesus' Blood-slurping immortal beings hardly sound like the sort of characters you'd expect in a Spike Lee Joint. But in this bold and bl...
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Violent and comic 'Kingsman' an edgy 007 parodyFeb 12, 2015 4:00 am - The joyously silly and ultraviolent black comedy "Kingsman: The Secret Service" captures the spirit of 1960s Cold War spy movies, even with its horrific Kentucky church ...
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Gire: Rating movie nudity along with the MPAAFeb 11, 2015 10:00 pm - Partial vs. full nudity? If you've seen “Jupiter Ascending,” you probably remember actress Tuppence Middleton, completely nude, slowly rising from a large tub in a ...
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George Kotsiopoulos talks about 'Fashion Police' exit, new QVC lineFeb 10, 2015 4:30 am - Even when he was a 15-year-old stock boy at the Lord & Taylor store in Old Orchard, George Kotsiopoulos loved fashion. The Skokie native, celebrity stylist and former ho...
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Reel life: Oscars and valentines at screeningsFeb 05, 2015 5:00 am - Film critics notebook: ● The After Hours Film Society presents Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund's "Force Majeure," an examination of marriage set against the majestic pea...
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'Red Army' a local filmmaker's look at Soviet hockeyFeb 05, 2015 5:00 am - Mini-review: 'Red Army' The Soviet Union created the Red Army hockey team in the 1950s, not just to win games, but to prove communism to be a superior political system t...
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Wachowskis' uninspired sci-fi thriller descends into confusion, conventionFeb 05, 2015 4:45 am - For all its valiant attempts to pump some "Matrix" magic back into science-fiction films, the Wachowskis' ambitious interplanetary thriller "Jupiter Ascending" amounts t...