Dann Gire
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Vera Farmiga tries her hand at directingSep 01, 2011 10:30 am - Vera Farmiga directs Is there a secret formula to success when an actress decides to become a director as well? Vera Farmiga thinks so. "More than half the battle is ...
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Sudeikis stars in tasteless sex comedySep 01, 2011 5:45 am - Mike, an overgrown frat boy played by Tyler Labine, summarizes this movie best when he shouts, "This is the worst orgy ever!" Contrary to its misleading positive adject...
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Denise Richards: Suburban upbringing kept me groundedAug 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Downers Grove native talks about her new book
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Rudd's charm drives 'Our Idiot Brother'Aug 25, 2011 6:00 am - "Our Idiot Brother" is a pleasant, innocuous little comedy given extra bounce and life by Paul Rudd's charming and fluid performance as an idealistic man whose heart exc...
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Suburban teens win local Film FestAug 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Teens from Arlington Heights and Oak Park won the top three awards in the fifth annual Teen Film Fest sponsored by the Arlington Heights Memorial Library last Friday. Ro...
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'Dark' remake an all-too-familiar creature featureAug 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Weirdly enough, the scariest made-for-TV movies ever created come from the 1970s: 1. "The Night Stalker" (1972), with Darren McGavin as a sartorially challenged reporte...
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Hoffman grad does sickly makeup for beautiful 'Contagion' starsAug 23, 2011 5:00 am - So, your job is to take the radiantly beautiful, Oscar-winning actresses Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow and make them look as if they've contracted a deadly, unknown d...
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'Final Destination's' Bludworth cloaked in mysteryAug 18, 2011 6:00 am - In Candyman's suite When actor Tony Todd met me at Chicago's Trump International Tower, he said, “You look like an algebra teacher!” So much for my inner image as t...
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Flashes of inspiration can't brighten 'Conan'Aug 18, 2011 6:00 am - In the early days of the ancient Hyborian Age, everyone apparently had access to excellent dental care, because the poor peasants in Marcus Nispel's remake of "Conan the...
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Humor, horror put bite in 'Fright Night'Aug 18, 2011 5:45 am - Craig Gillespie's "Fright Night" isn't just a clever and entertaining remake; it takes the nuts and lightning bolts of Tom Holland's 1985 comically scary horror film and...