Dann Gire
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Glencoe native Fred Savage's wonder years behind, off cameraMay 05, 2014 1:01 am - You probably remember Fred Savage as Peter Falk's cute grandson in the popular 1987 movie "The Princess Bride" or as super cute Kevin Arnold in TV's "The Wonder Years." ...
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And now, the sequel: Critics expand second Chicago film festMay 03, 2014 11:00 pm - When Erik Childress proposed that the Chicago Film Critics Association launch its own film festival from scratch, my initial reaction was quick and heartfelt: Are you nu...
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Daring 'Locke' rife with decisions, consequencesMay 01, 2014 6:00 am - At the end of Steven Knight's one-man drama "Locke," a single car breaks away from the busy main highway and sets off on its own solitary course. It's a perfect ending f...
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Director takes a journey making 'Locke'May 01, 2014 6:00 am - Mini-interview: 5 Qs with Steven Knight British filmmaker Steven Knight is a published novelist (four books), a screenwriter ("Eastern Promises" and "Dirty Pretty Things...
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Social media comedy #disappointinglysillyMay 01, 2014 5:00 am - The plot of Sarah Smick's blackly comic “Friended to Death” is thin and simple stuff, a premise that might feel right at home in a half-hour TV sitcom such as “The Big B...
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Allen-esque 'Fading Gigolo' lacks Woody's magicMay 01, 2014 5:00 am - Apparently, only Woody Allen can make a Woody Allen movie. At least a good one. That's the upshot of director/writer/star John Turturro's "Fading Gigolo," a comedy that ...
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Overlong, overwritten 'Spider-Man' sequel not so amazingApr 29, 2014 11:00 pm - Spidey's "greatest adventure"? Don't believe everything you read on billboards and movie posters. For all of its visual bombast, unrelentingly generic action sequences a...
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Glenview native Sam Witwer moving on from vampire roleApr 28, 2014 1:00 am - In his first TV acting job, on the show "JAG," Sam Witwer had two lines: "Sup?" and "How's it goin', Vic?" "The world could not become a brighter place when I got that ...
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Tivoli hosts special screening of 'Tim's Vermeer'Apr 24, 2014 5:30 am - Film critics notebook • The After Hours Film Society presents Penn & Teller's documentary “Tim's Vermeer” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, at the Tivoli Theatre, 5021...
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'Child's Pose' a brave work of remarkable realismApr 24, 2014 5:30 am - In a typical Hollywood movie, Luminita Gheorghiu's manipulative mother would be the story's villain, the antagonist to a heroic reporter investigating how a powerful and...