Dann Gire
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Fremd grad's directorial debut a no-frills piece of baseball storytellingSep 20, 2012 6:00 am - Baseball takes a back seat to a prickly, jousty father-daughter relationship in Robert Lorenz's well-crafted directorial debut, "Trouble With the Curve," a funny, punny ...
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'Dredd' a fast-paced work of sci-fi violenceSep 20, 2012 6:00 am - I liked this movie better when it came out earlier this year as "The Raid: Redemption," and featured a bloody, psycho-paced tale about trapped cops struggling to stay al...
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Fremd grad partners with Dirty Harry for directorial debutSep 17, 2012 11:00 pm - In Hollywood's Malpaso Production office sit two main chairs. One belongs to Clint Eastwood. The other belongs to Malpaso executive Robert Lorenz, a Fremd High School gr...
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'Arbitrage' a slickly produced, morally messy thrillerSep 13, 2012 6:00 am - Finally, somebody made a sequel to Garry Marshall's hit romantic comedy "Pretty Woman." Except that Nicholas Jarecki's "Arbitrage" isn't very romantic, has no comedy and...
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Does '2016' live up to all the hype?Sep 13, 2012 6:00 am - Whose America is it? Joyce Petersen of Des Plaines writes: "Is it because of the huge crowds at the theaters to see '2016 Obama's America' that Dann Gire hasn't been abl...
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Faith, freedom and family merge in hokey 'Last Ounce'Sep 13, 2012 6:00 am - The principal message in the overt message movie "Last Ounce of Courage" - that religious freedom belongs to all Americans, including Christians - would hold more univer...
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S. Barrington man builds career on radio's Golden AgeSep 10, 2012 11:00 pm - Carl Amari wasn't alive when the Golden Age of Radio dominated the airwaves, but as a kid growing up in Schiller Park in the 1970s, he was obsessed with old-time radio s...
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'Lincoln,' Bond give fall films a renewed license to thrillSep 06, 2012 11:00 pm - If I had to devise a list of the top five fall movies I am salivating to see, they would be these: "Skyfall," just to see if Daniel Craig's third time up as Agent 007 i...
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'Love Stalker' explores the dark sideSep 06, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "Love Stalker" Here's a surprising, low-budget, anti-romantic, non-comedy that chronicles how a seemingly regular thirtysomething guy hops the exp...
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Mt. Prospect filmmaker fulfills teenage dreamSep 03, 2012 11:00 pm - "It was one of those secret promises I made as a teenager at Prospect High School," Matt Glasson said. "I'm going to make a feature film!" And so he did. The Mount Prosp...