Dann Gire
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'King's Speech' a rich, royal treatDec 15, 2010 10:00 pm - Tom Hooper's “The King's Speech” is about many things, but mostly it's about an insecure man who racks up the courage to put aside his pride to simply ask another man fo...
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'TRON' sequel battles lame plotDec 15, 2010 10:00 pm - You'd think the makers of the sequel to the 1982 science-fiction thriller “TRON” would have upgraded the script and characters as much they improved the CGI effects. Not...
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'The Tempest' offers lavish special effects that diminish dialogueDec 15, 2010 10:00 pm - Critics noms due Friday Nominees for the annual Chicago Film Critics awards are scheduled to be announced Friday, Dec. 17. Go to dailyherald.com or to chicagofilmcr...
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'Night Catches Us' evokes strong memoriesDec 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The title comes from a Jamaican saying, “Don't let the night catch you,” meaning, I suppose, that you shouldn't let the darkness perhaps the dark past overtake you. Ja...
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Con man cons all too well in 'Phillip Morris'Dec 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The extent that Jim Carrey's con man character in “I Love You Phillip Morris” connects with its audience ultimately determines how much we are drawn into this peculiar a...
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Romantic thriller 'Tourist' nice to look at, but sparks fizzleDec 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Call it “The Tourist” claptrap. Here we have a romantic thriller that should have evoked comparisons with a classic Alfred Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant and Eva Mar...
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'Contagion' closes setDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - Movie sets have different personalities. Some are big, open and invite spectators, such as the sets of mass destruction for “Transformers 3” shot in Chicago earlier this...
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'Grease' co-creator: No one got the endingDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - We're sorry, Sandy. All this time, we were completely wrong about you and the ending of your musical movie “Grease.” We thought that when you doffed your sweet Sandra De...
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Portman mesmerizing as ballerina in 'Black Swan'Dec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - Darren Aronofsky's disturbing “Black Swan” chronicles in exquisite, excruciating detail how a control-freak ballerina pirouettes off into the abyss of madness and obsess...
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Starring ... Scrooge on the small screenNov 30, 2010 10:00 pm - Charles Dickens' classic story “A Christmas Carol” has inspired zillions of TV shows, shorts and features, including versions with Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and even Barb...