Dann Gire
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Gire: 3-D 'Sin City' sequel a visual sucker punchAug 21, 2014 5:00 am - Sin City. A desperate town filled with ulterior motives and interior monologues. A confusing town where a stripper never takes anything off and a socialite seldom puts a...
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Horrors! Des Plaines native goes for filmmaking revengeAug 17, 2014 11:00 pm - Michael Ojeda found the perfect, secluded motel he'd been looking for in Superior, Arizona. He asked the clerk if he could stay in the corner room. "Oh," the clerk said,...
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Williams tribute in Naperville Monday to fund suicide preventionAug 17, 2014 11:00 pm - A movie tribute to the late actor/comedian Robin Williams will be presented at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, at the Hollywood Palms Cinema, 352 S. Route 59, Naperville, with 1...
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Dinosaur documentary digs into finding Sue - and serving timeAug 17, 2014 5:30 am - "Dinosaur 13" documentary subject and paleontologist Peter Larson offers three rules to live by when the dino-dung hits the fan of life. "First, no matter how bad things...
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Gire: 5 minutes with 'The Giver' starsAug 14, 2014 5:30 am - 6 Qs for 2 'Giver' stars I'm on a chair in a room at Chicago's Four Seasons Hotel. On the couch are the young stars from “The Giver,” Australian actor Brenton Thwai...
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'Giver' takes all: Ambitious sci-fi drama a dispassionate tale of dispassionAug 14, 2014 5:00 am - Phillip Noyce's science-fiction drama "The Giver" should grab us by our conscientious lapels and shake us with its glimpse of a bleak future in which humanity has been p...
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Former St. Charles resident shell-shocked by 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' roleAug 13, 2014 5:00 am - Pete Ploszek played football in school for 12 years, but none of that physical conditioning could prepare him for the rigors of portraying a ninja turtle. "Here we were ...
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How Robin Williams may have saved Christopher Reeve's lifeAug 10, 2014 11:00 pm - In the end, there wasn't anyone around to convince Robin Williams that he would be OK. Certainly not like "Superman" star Christopher Reeve had back in 1995. Reeve was a...
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Thriller 'Storm' can't weather disaster clichésAug 07, 2014 6:15 am - "I've never seen anything like this!" a storm chaser says while witnessing a multi-funnel tornado event in the disaster drama "Into the Storm." Apparently, he's the only...
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'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' a generic rebootAug 07, 2014 5:15 am - What the shell happened to our "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"? Those lovable, wisecracking, pizza-loving, personality-plus reptilian superheroes have gone bland and gene...