Dann Gire
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'Secret World of Arrietty' a place of magic, beautyFeb 16, 2012 5:00 am - In the age of sleek, metallically lustrous computer animation, the Japanese production "The Secret World of Arrietty" presents a treasure chest of old-fashioned pen and ...
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'This Means War' a silly, shallow rom-comFeb 16, 2012 5:00 am - Twentieth Century Fox bumped the romantic comedy "This Means War" from its original Valentine's Day release to today, and I can only assume that Fox executives didn't wa...
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'Bloody Valentine' is Wheeling grad's hottest role yetFeb 13, 2012 10:00 pm - Before casting directors hired Joyce Edgington to be in their movie, they needed to know one important thing: "They asked me if I could fit into a dryer," Edgington sai...
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'W.E.' a muddled messFeb 09, 2012 5:00 am - Reel Life review: 'W.E.' "You have no idea how hard it is to live out the greatest romance of the century!" Wallis Simpson tells her namesake, Wallis "Wally" Winthrop o...
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Blurry action, thin characters occupy 'Safe House'Feb 09, 2012 5:00 am - In between the shooting and driving and jumping and chasing and crashing and punching and shoving and falling and stabbing and strangling and waterboarding, Daniel Espin...
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Witless 'Journey' gets lost along the wayFeb 09, 2012 5:00 am - Let's start with the awkwardly awful 3-D cartoon short that sets the stage for the awkwardly awful 3-D live-action adventure that follows, shall we? The four-minute "Da...
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Elmhurst native, OK GO up for second Grammy for videoFeb 06, 2012 10:00 pm - When OK GO remade "The Muppet Show" theme song last year, drummer Dan Konopka spent some quality time with Kermit the Frog (who thought their song "kicks it"), did inter...
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Check out low-key thriller 'Innkeepers'Feb 02, 2012 5:00 am - Reel Life review: 'The Innkeepers' The real star of Ti West's tidy little ghost story "The Innkeepers" has to be that dissonant chord of unnerving noise that plays on t...
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No Harry Potter magic for Daniel Radcliffe in 'Woman'Feb 02, 2012 5:00 am - James Watkins' "The Woman in Black" will go down in cinema history as a wannabe classic gothic tale short-circuited by cheap shock devices, dramatic miscues, psychologic...
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Wood Dale native’s animation dreams take flight in ‘Hugo’Jan 30, 2012 11:00 pm - Colin Brady has a pretty good idea when his family realized he’s not like the other dads. “I was working on ‘Lemony Snicket’ and we needed to animate a baby wrestling a ...