Dann Gire
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Superb visuals trump thoughtfulness in 'Dinosaurs'Dec 19, 2013 4:30 am - The superbly rendered and realistically animated characters in 20th Century Fox's live-action/animated "Walking With Dinosaurs" apparently communicate telepathically. T...
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Chicago film critics name '12 Years a Slave' 2013's best movieDec 16, 2013 8:00 pm - The Chicago Film Critics Association Monday night named Steve McQueen's historical drama "12 Years a Slave" best picture of 2013. The historical drama - based on the me...
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Naperville native now hair stylist to the starsDec 16, 2013 11:00 am - When asked to name celebrities whose hair she's styled, Sallie Ciganovich draws a blank, laughing as she pulls the phone aside and asks a friend to jog her memory. They ...
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‘12 Years a Slave’ tops Chicago film critics nomineesDec 13, 2013 3:39 pm - Steve McQueen’s historical drama “12 Years A Slave” leads the contenders for the 2013 Chicago Film Critics awards with 11 nominations, including best picture. The drama,...
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Santa movies both naughty and niceDec 13, 2013 4:30 am - Traditional Christmas movies showcase St. Nicholas as a generically sweet, generous fellow with a belly filled with jelly and the gentle disposition of a giant stuffed p...
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Jackson's faster-paced Middle Earth adventure still a victim of bloatDec 12, 2013 5:00 am - After turning J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth into a bloated, brain-numbing travelogue in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," Peter Jackson strikes back with a sequel sli...
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'Last Days' a mixed-up mess of genre tropesDec 12, 2013 5:00 am - "The Last Days on Mars," Ruairi Robinson's messed-up mash-up of horror and science fiction, stars Liev Schreiber as the commander of a space mission aborted by a sudden ...
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Fact-based comic drama poppin' with merry tale of seductionDec 12, 2013 4:00 am - On the surface, there would appear to be no greater kindred spirits than Walt Disney and “Mary Poppins” author P.L. Travers. No one understood the power of fantasy to he...
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From wild child at Hersey to Hollywood actorDec 09, 2013 11:00 am - Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect that “Duet” was not the first play Keith Szarabajka wrote, and its two main characters are a young black woman and ...
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Terrific cast, camerawork fail to heat up revenge taleDec 05, 2013 4:30 am - Even the worst-made violent tales of personal revenge can push an audience's emo-buttons so hard that viewers scream in ecstatic approval with each "quality kill" they w...