Dann Gire
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Crowe launches his own mission impossible in 'The Next Three Days'Nov 17, 2010 10:00 pm - The most significant contribution of Paul Haggis' lengthy and occasionally intense crime drama “The Next Three Days” could be the elevation of community college literatu...
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Local community theater actress still performing the arts at 80Nov 16, 2010 10:00 pm - Six days from now on Nov. 24, Ann Stewart turns the big 8-0. Most people hitting the octogenarian mark have long been retired. Stewart just finished mounting one of the ...
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Holiday films deliver the 'Tron' and 'True'Nov 16, 2010 10:00 pm - The holiday movies have returned with a blissful mix of baby boomer catnip, special effects adventures, animated comedies and contemporary reworkings of classic material...
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Gloomy 'Deathly Hallows' sets the stage for Harry Potter's final spellNov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - Maybe Harry Potter could cast a magic spell over us before we see his new movie. He could point his magic wand and utter an incantation like “NoDozeium Offem.” Or “RedBu...
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Franco riveting in '127 Hours'Nov 10, 2010 10:00 pm - ="breakhead">Reel Life review: #8216;127 Hours' Several viewers keeled over while watching Danny Boyle's fact-based drama at its Telluride Film Festival premiere ea...
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'Unstoppable' a heart-pounding rideNov 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Seriously, how threatening and scary can a big, unmanned choo-choo be? Let yardmaster Connie Hooper answer that one. “A missile the size of the Chrysler Building!” she s...
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'Morning Glory' broadcasts a few laughsNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Roger Michell's comedy “Morning Glory” could have easily assessed what's happened to America's TV news since James L. Brooks' 1987 masterpiece “Broadcast News” showed us...
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Thandie Newton finds freedom in her workNov 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Actress Thandie Newton turns 38 today. She's one of many stars in Tyler Perry's new movie “For Colored Girls,” based on Ntozake Shange's Tony-nominated stage show “For C...
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'Megamind' blends farce and fantasyNov 04, 2010 1:00 am - “Megamind” is both farce and fantasy, a vivid 3-D animated comedy filled with zany characters, switched identities, reversing roles and surprise plot entanglements. Then...
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'Due Date' delivers crass comedy, kooky charactersNov 04, 2010 1:00 am - Call it “Planes, Trains and Automobiles -- Without the Planes and Trains.” “Due Date” stars Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis as two clashing, feuding strangers w...