Dann Gire
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Plan to 'Escape' from this prison sellOct 17, 2013 6:00 am - "You don't look dat smahht," Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) says to Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone). "Needer do yew!" Breslin replies. Oh, great. With "Escap...
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Cumberbatch boosts fact-based 'Fifth Estate' to tolerable dramaOct 17, 2013 6:00 am - Benedict Cumberbatch has recently played a spaced-out supervillain in "Star Trek Into Darkness," and appears as a relatively civilized slave owner in the new "12 Years a...
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Suburban outsider Diablo Cody sticks to the theme in her new film, 'Paradise'Oct 14, 2013 8:00 am - Suburban rebels don't get much more rebellious than Diablo Cody. The Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 2007 movie "Juno" was born at Hinsdale Hospital. She grew up in L...
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Outrageously violent 'Machete' doesn't cut it as genre parodyOct 10, 2013 6:00 am - This "Machete" doesn't kill. Or thrill. But it does chill the marrow with the thought that another dumb sequel, "Machete Kills in Space," might already be on the cinem...
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'Captain Phillips' a smart, white-knuckled thrillerOct 10, 2013 6:00 am - Paul Greengrass' smart and accomplished fact-based thriller "Captain Phillips" does two things that many regular Hollywood action/survival movies do not: First, "Captai...
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'We Are What We Are' is a little bit terrifyingOct 10, 2013 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "We Are What We Are" It has been a long, long, long time since a motion picture has truly horrified me. Jim Mickle's moody and unpredictable "We ...
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Winnetka native making his directorial debutOct 08, 2013 11:00 am - The performing arts are in his blood. At least that's the way Jason Chaet explains it. The Winnetka native's dad, a retired insurance broker, has strong family ties to ...
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'Bad Milo' takes theater of the absurd to the extremeOct 03, 2013 6:00 am - Mini-review: "Bad Milo" Theater of the absurd usually works better in an actual live theater than it does in the more literal medium of motion pictures. Such is the ca...
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'Parkland' a tasteless, moribund account of JFK assassinationOct 03, 2013 6:00 am - The assassination of President John F. Kennedy probably ranks as the most traumatic and galvanizing moment in the history of the baby boomer experience. Peter Landesman...
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Cinematically engaging 'Gravity' an immersive survival thrillerOct 03, 2013 5:00 am - Prepare to be visually wowed and dramatically cowed by a gripping survival thriller all about a feisty female astronaut from Lake Zurich. Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" sim...