Dann Gire
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Stewart's 'Rosewater' flows with suprising humorNov 13, 2014 5:00 am - Compared to how U.S. interrogators tortured prisoners in Kathryn Bigelow's fact-based military drama "Zero Dark Thirty," the Iranian prison housing Newsweek corresponden...
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Fact-based 'Theory' propelled by Redmayne's Stephen HawkingNov 13, 2014 4:30 am - Eddie Redmayne's moving portrait of the great British physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" ranks as one of those rarest of film performances, a galvan...
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Reel life: Follow that yellow brick roadNov 13, 2014 4:15 am - Film critics notebook: • You should be off to see the Wizard this weekend. If you've never seen the classic musical “The Wizard of Oz” on the silver screen, you owe it t...
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Dramatic material the driving force behind 'Invisible Front'Nov 13, 2014 4:15 am - Mini-review: "The Invisible Front" The post-World War II documentary "The Invisible Front" had everything going for it to become a riveting, bigger-than-life story. It h...
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Lombard native Rachel Melvin co-stars in 'Dumb and Dumber To'Nov 11, 2014 4:30 am - Until now, actress Rachel Melvin has been best known for her four-year stint on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives." The Lombard native's career takes a quantum-leap ...
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Reel life: 'Interstellar' is not the place for IMAXNov 06, 2014 5:00 am - Taken to the IMAX? The IMAX company didn't finance, market or distribute Christopher Nolan's new science-fiction drama “Interstellar.” Yet, the company is, accordi...
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Edet Belzberg's excellent 'Watchers' tells a horrible taleNov 06, 2014 4:45 am - Mini-review: 'Watchers of the Sky' Anyone possessed with even a fleeting sense of social justice should be amazed and appalled by what he/she sees and learns in Edet Bel...
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Appealing actors can't lift struggling 'Low Down'Nov 06, 2014 4:30 am - Mini-review: 'Low Down' Jazz musicians struggling with personal demons and drugs have become a subgenre on their own. “Bird,” “Man With the Golden Arm” and “Lady Si...
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Nolan's 'Interstellar' a trippy, twisty tale of saving humankindNov 06, 2014 4:30 am - Christopher Nolan shoots for the stars in his wildly ambitious, visually explosive sci-fi epic “Interstellar.” And he succeeds, relativity speaking. In “Interstellar,” N...
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VHS tapes bring trouble in 'Jessabelle'Nov 06, 2014 4:00 am - Mini-review: 'Jessabelle' The title "V/H/S" has already been snapped up, but it would have been an ideal title for "Jessabelle," a ghost tale that hinges on messages a n...