Dann Gire
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Gire: Gandolfini, Hardy add sharp focus to crime drama 'The Drop'Sep 11, 2014 5:45 am - The dramatically explosive ending of "The Drop" more than justifies its long, long fuse, resulting in two Big Bangs that create not a moral universe, but a multiverse of...
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Gire: From spit-takes to tandem screams, ban these movie clichesSep 11, 2014 5:30 am - 5 visual clichés I hate Here are five more visual crutches I would like to not see for another five years: Actors who inexplicably talk into walls or windows while add...
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New trainer on 'Biggest Loser' grew up in LisleSep 09, 2014 5:00 am - Usually it's the contestants who cry on “The Biggest Loser,” but trainer Jennifer Widerstrom was tearing up, too, during the first few days of filming. “There's so much ...
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Roy Leonard: WGN icon and film critic rememberedSep 05, 2014 1:01 am - Daily Herald Film Critic dgire@dailyherald.com Roy Leonard and I sat next to each other while watching the movie "Wild Things" at Chicago's Lake Street Screening Room in...
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Gire: Hollywood Palms hosts 'No Place Like Home' benefitSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - Film critics notebook • A 75th anniversary screening of MGM's classic musical “The Wizard of Oz” will benefit Aurora's Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity on Monday, Se...
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Flawed 'Falcon' flies with action star WhiteSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - This marks a first for any action movie I've ever seen: a tough, PTSD-suffering, suicidal ex-soldier takes a U.S. government agent job for the health benefits. But not f...
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Gire: Conventional 'Robin Hood' misses the sensational boatSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Mini-review: 'The Last of Robin Hood' The most interesting piece of trivia to come out of this bio-drama is that Hollywood star Errol Flynn could have played Humbert Hum...
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Gire: 'Life After Beth' a lifeless rom-zom-comSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Mini-review: 'Life After Beth' For a romantic zombie comedy, Jeff Baena's "Life After Beth" comes up way short on laughs, scares, action and political insights into our ...
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'Pretty Little Liars' stylist started her career in Lake CountySep 02, 2014 5:30 am - When she thinks back to her first hairstyling job - at a Fantastic Sam's in Round Lake in the late 1980s - Kim Ferry laughs. "To the Round Lake people, I apologize, beca...
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Autumn movies get serious and scary with dramas and moreAug 29, 2014 6:00 am - As the fall movie season cranks up next week, several questions arise: Can Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels get any dumberer? Will Christopher Nolan regain his mojo with "In...