Dann Gire
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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...
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Downers Grove artist fires up a career in special effectsAug 15, 2011 11:00 pm - One of the most provocative job titles in Hollywood — aside from best boy and gaffer, of course — has to be “Flame artist.” Flame artist? Sounds like a guy who p...
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Malcolm McDowell remembers Stanley Kubrick's snubAug 11, 2011 10:00 am - A Clockwork actor Actor Malcolm McDowell will introduce Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic tale of ultraviolence and mayhem "A Clockwork Orange" at 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, ...
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'30 Minutes' a frantic action comedyAug 11, 2011 1:00 am - Time's up on frantic, action comedy '30 Minutes'
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'Final Destination 5' falls prey to formulaAug 11, 2011 1:00 am - Fans of the popular "Final Destination" horror films will be thrilled and amazed by the clever ending of the fifth entry in the decade-old series. But first, they'll ha...
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'The Help' works with sharp humor, excellent actingAug 10, 2011 1:00 am - Set in Mississippi during the violent Civil Rights era, "The Help" uses lots of crisp humor and sharply drawn, well-cast characters to empathize with the plight of black...
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Captain Awesome's humble beginnings in Glen EllynAug 09, 2011 12:00 am - You know the nice-looking teenage boy from Glen Ellyn who rang your doorbell in the early 1990s and tried to sell you a Daily Herald subscription? Well, he grew up to ...
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Reel life: 'Future' seems flawedAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: ‘The Future' I wanted to love Miranda July's new movie “The Future,” because I loved her first work, the ethereally giddy cinematic confectio...
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Crassness trumps cleverness in 'Change-Up'Aug 04, 2011 12:00 am - "The Change-Up" wastes no time in establishing just how low it will go to make us laugh. Or wish we hadn't just purchased that candy bar. In the middle of the night, ...
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'Apes' prequel proves itself an action-packed thrillerAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," a thoughtful, action-packed science fiction thriller, works best if you think of it as a prequel to Charlton Heston's original 1968 "Pl...