Dann Gire
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Wheaton's Jim Belushi: Actor, icon, pizza diplomatOct 15, 2012 11:00 pm - Who better to identify the greatest pizza in Chicagoland than a genuine local icon? So, we tracked down Wheaton native Jim Belushi at a small house in the Bordeaux regi...
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'Smiley' overdoes it with horror conventionsOct 11, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: 'Smiley' By the time Michael J. Gallagher's "Smiley" gets around to providing its own twist to the contrived mad slasher formula (virginal good g...
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Ben Affleck's 'Argo' a white-knuckle trip to 1979 TehranOct 11, 2012 6:00 am - Ben Affleck's fact-based drama "Argo" hits such a suspenseful nerve that it doesn't matter we already know it has a happy ending. Actually, the movie's last 15 carefull...
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'Psychopaths' a sadistically hilarious crime comedyOct 11, 2012 6:00 am - If Quentin Tarantino had directed a feature film starring the Three Stooges, roughly, you'd get something like Martin McDonagh's sadistically hilarious crime comedy "Sev...
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'Sinister' a disappointing horror tale with a slow fuse, minimal payoffOct 11, 2012 6:00 am - The sorry state of scary movies right now boils down to this: Nothing on the silver screen of late comes close to matching the raw power, raspy inventiveness and sheer t...
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Stevenson graduates have become horror heroesOct 08, 2012 11:00 pm - It started out as just a couple of Stevenson High School students with an amateur website dedicated to the horror movies they loved, like “Halloween” and “Poltergeist.” ...
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'Paperboy' a tale of murder and sleazeOct 04, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: 'The Paperboy' This is the movie that will forever be known as "the one where Nicole Kidman urinates all over Zac Efron." "The Paperboy" wears i...
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Preposterous 'Taken 2' dumbest action movie of year so farOct 04, 2012 6:00 am - Knock! Knock! Who's there? "Taken 2." "Taken 2" who? I saw the new Liam Neeson movie and boy, I got Taken 2! This is the dumbest action movie I've seen this year. ...
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Burton's scary 'Frankenweenie' a triumph of black-and-white stop-motion animationOct 04, 2012 6:00 am - Tim Burton's eye-popping, black-and-white, stop-motion animated 3-D feature "Frankenweenie" is a scarefully crafted valentine to Universal Pictures' classic monster movi...
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Hersey grad a super natural at producing TV showsOct 01, 2012 11:00 pm - Jim Michaels had this dream. "I intended to live on the beach in Los Angeles and drive a convertible," the Hersey High School graduate said. "I would give myself one yea...