Dann Gire
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Music director from Arlington Heights on Broadway this holidayDec 23, 2014 4:00 am - Broadway doesn't really take a Christmas break, so neither does music director and conductor James Moore, a native of Arlington Heights. Instead of celebrating in the s...
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Woodridge, Buffalo Grove theaters to show 'The Interview'Dec 23, 2014 12:01 am - "The Interview" is back on the Christmas Day release schedule, with showings planned at the Hollywood Blvd. cinemas in Woodridge and the Buffalo Grove Theater in Buffalo...
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'Into the Woods' a sanitized but still exuberant journeyDec 21, 2014 10:00 pm - Rob Marshall's “Into the Woods” presents an exuberantly engaging, yet awkwardly cleansed cinematic translation of Stephen Sondheim's lyrically impressive 1987 Broadway m...
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Gire: 'Babadook' filmmaker: 'I love horror movies'Dec 18, 2014 5:00 am - Australian director Jennifer Kent was nominated as "Most Promising Filmmaker" by the Chicago Film Critics for her debut movie, the horror tale "The Babadook." I talked t...
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Gire: Effects trump intelligence in 'Night at the Museum'Dec 18, 2014 5:00 am - "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" bears all the telltale signs of a feckless children's fantasy put together by filmmakers who've squandered a terrific opportuni...
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Boogeyman wins as movie theaters cave to threatDec 17, 2014 12:00 am - "The Interview" dropped from Christmas lineup after mysterious threats online
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Epic battles compensate for perfunctory dialogue, narrative bloat in last 'Hobbit'Dec 15, 2014 10:00 pm - "Lord of the Rings" fans can rejoice! "The Battle of the Five Armies" ranks as the best segment in Peter Jackson's second trilogy based on the Middle-earth literary work...
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Chicago critics pick 'Boyhood' as best 2014 filmDec 15, 2014 12:01 am - The Chicago Film Critics Association Monday named Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," a project that took 12 years to shoot, as the best movie of 2014. "Boyhood" also took ho...
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'Birdman' flies with Chicago critics' nominationsDec 12, 2014 3:00 pm - Alejandro G. Inarritu's hallucinatory black comedy/drama "Birdman" leads the Chicago Film Critics Assn.'s annual year-end awards recognition with nine nominations, inclu...
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Theaters go all in with holiday screenings this weekendDec 11, 2014 5:00 am - Film critics notebook: • Final ballots are being tallied this weekend for the 2014 Chicago Film Critics Awards, to be announced Monday, Dec. 15. Go to dailyherald.c...