Dann Gire
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Is 'Deranged' as scary as it should be?Jul 26, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "Deranged" It takes just under 30 minutes in Park Jung-woo's South Korea horror tale "Deranged" for authorities to discover why so many emaciated...
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'Watch' prowls all-too-familiar territoryJul 26, 2012 6:00 am - It's already late July and 20th Century Fox has finally released the sort of brainless, unoriginal gross-out comedy that studios are supposed to unleash on us early in t...
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Spunky debunkers can't save ridiculous psychic thrillerJul 26, 2012 5:45 am - Rodrigo Cortes' "Red Lights" ranks as one of the shlockiest mystery thrillers in recent memory, a dark and somber tale that squanders a promising premise with a finale s...
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'Ruby' sparks with romance, fantasyJul 24, 2012 11:00 am - The smart thing about this amiable romance/fantasy is that it never explains how novelist Calvin Weir-Fields' literary character, Ruby Sparks, magically comes to life on...
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No one hurt in Hoffman Estates brush fireJul 21, 2012 8:44 pm - Hoffman Estates firefighters Saturday afternoon were called to extinguish a brush fire that swept over a dry patch of grass and quickly spread over a berm off Bode Road ...
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Rob Reiner misses his magic touch with 'Belle'Jul 19, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: 'Magic of Belle Island' Once upon a time, director Rob Reiner ruled Hollywood with diverse and engaging movies such as "The Princess Bride," "St...
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Spectacular 'Dark Knight' rises to epic finaleJul 17, 2012 12:00 pm - Bane is no Joker. And contrary to its title, "The Dark Knight Rises" never rises above "The Dark Knight." Yet, Christopher Nolan's final chapter in his Batman trilogy ...
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Rolling Meadows' Gary “Lumbergh” Cole is serious, tooJul 16, 2012 11:00 pm - He's played a crazed killer, postured as the vice president and voiced an animated bunny. Yet, actor Gary Cole, who grew up in Rolling Meadows, insists it's just a coin...
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10 cool canine movies to get us through dog daysJul 13, 2012 6:00 am - Here we are, stuck in the dog days of summer. What better time to celebrate the best of canine cinema? I realize that in the movie world, the term "dog days of summer"...
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Latest kid-friendly 'Ice Age' sequel plays it safeJul 12, 2012 6:00 am - The animated 3-D comedy "Ice Age: Continental Drift" proves that the fourth time's fairly charmless. Kids, the obvious target audience for this third sequel to 2002's f...