Dann Gire
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'Descendants' a delightful comic dramaNov 16, 2011 10:00 pm - "The Descendants" is a blunt, honest drama about the inherent messiness of life, and it adroitly deals with the mess on a level of maturity and thoughtfulness that elude...
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Broadway singer found calling at Schaumburg HighNov 15, 2011 4:00 am - All he wanted to do was avoid a high school detention. So Sal Viviano reluctantly auditioned for the Schaumburg High School choir, a seemingly innocuous act that ultima...
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'Melancholia' an astonishing nightmareNov 09, 2011 10:00 pm - Reel Life mini-review: 'Melancholia' Lars von Trier's art house Armageddon drama "Melancholia" begins with a rogue planet plowing into the Earth at a zillion miles an h...
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Sandler's 'Jack and Jill' takes a fallNov 09, 2011 10:00 pm - Leonardo DiCaprio and Adam Sandler are two major Hollywood stars who dress in drag for their movies this week. DiCaprio is the funnier one in "J. Edgar." In "Jack and ...
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'J. Edgar' a restrained look at feared FBI chiefNov 09, 2011 5:00 am - What we learn in Clint Eastwood's low-key, biographical drama about one of the scariest, most enigmatic shapers of America's 20th century is that J. Edgar Hoover, the fe...
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3-D proved a challenge for 'Harold & Kumar'Nov 03, 2011 11:00 pm - John Cho and Kal Penn have starred in two "Harold & Kumar" hit comedies. They went to White Castle in 2004. They escaped from Guantanamo Bay in 2008. Now they star in "...
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Yelchin brings truth to 'Like Crazy'Nov 03, 2011 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: 'Like Crazy' Call Drake Doremus' finely sketched "Like Crazy" this generation's "Splendor in the Grass," the 1961 romance between two small-town ...
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Christmas tree quest root of 'Kumar' adventureNov 03, 2011 6:00 am - Ever since James Cameron's "Avatar" persuaded us that movies should treat 3-D as an organic part of storytelling and not as some cheap, visual gimmick, filmmakers have a...
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Laughs in short supply in absurd 'Tower Heist'Nov 03, 2011 6:00 am - By taking humorously cathartic revenge against Alan Alda's Bernie Madoff stand-in, zillionaire Arthur Shaw, Brett Ratner's caper comedy "Tower Heist" might have benefite...
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Cartoon creator from Itasca drew inspiration from artistic parentsNov 01, 2011 12:00 am - Duncan Rouleau grew up in Itasca with three brothers. One became an attorney; two became engineers. Rouleau? He became an artist, animator, writer and producer. How d...