Dann Gire
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'Scream 4' amps up the goreApr 14, 2011 12:00 am - I realize that “Scream 4” is supposed to be a self-aware post-modernistic comic horror film, because two soon-to-be skewered blondes tell us this in the film's fatal ope...
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Cute 'Rio' undercut by cliches, stereotypesApr 13, 2011 11:00 pm - “Rio” presents a blandly generic story pumped full of life by bright and crisp animation — despite being dimmed by 3-D glasses — plus a bouncy musical score equipped wit...
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Dann in reel life: 'Super' turns out to be just thatApr 08, 2011 2:00 am - Reel Life review: ‘Super' There is something gleefully, awfully liberating about an ultraviolent superhero movie that refuses to play by any rules, not even the one...
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Art house meets grindhouse in 'Hanna'Apr 07, 2011 2:00 am - If you see Joe Wright's amazing action movie “Hanna,” pay close attention to a scene where Hanna's father, Erik (played by Eric Bana), arrives at a bus station. In one s...
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IMAX documentary makes most of animal starsApr 07, 2011 2:00 am - “This story's like a fairy tale,” narrator Morgan Freeman tells us with his mellifluous vocal chords, “except it's entirely true.” Of course, it's not entirely true tha...
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Dated 'Arthur' turns out to be one dud-ly remakeApr 06, 2011 11:00 pm - Of all the movies from the early 1980s, Steve Gordon's rom-com “Arthur” would seem the least likely to justify a remake in 2011. Yet, here it is, a dated dud of a movie ...
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Walsh, Tenuta join incumbents on MP park boardApr 05, 2011 2:00 am - Challengers Susan Walsh and Lisa Tenuta won seats on the Mount Prospect Park District board today, along with incumbents Timothy Doherty and William Klicka. With all 43 ...
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Wadhwa, Harada win for Oakton boardApr 05, 2011 12:00 am - Patricia Harada and Jody Wadhwa won two, 6-year terms on the Oakton Community College board, in a tight three-candidate race. With all precincts reporting early today, u...
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Prospect Hts. District 23 tax increase fails; Bednar to join Botwinski, Hess, Peters on boardApr 05, 2011 12:00 am - Challenger James Bednar will join incumbents Carol Botwinski, David Hess and Mari-Lynn Peters on the Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 board, which will have to go...
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Schwimmer's 'Trust' a little too preachyMar 31, 2011 11:00 pm - David Schwimmer's “Trust” methodically, earnestly, painstakingly details a 14-year-old girl's seduction by an online pedophile, then meticulously chronicles the emotiona...