Dann Gire
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'Welcome to the Rileys' slow but heartfeltNov 24, 2010 10:00 pm - This might well be the closest thing we get to an actual Christmas movie this holiday season. Jake Scott's family crisis drama “Welcome to the Rileys” boasts superlative...
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'Ahead of Time' highlights a remarkable lifeNov 24, 2010 10:00 pm - By any measure, Ruth Gruber is a most remarkable woman. She wanted to get a closer look at Adolf Hitler, so she pretended to be a German citizen so she could sit in the ...
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Hathaway, Gyllenhaal make drama, not just another 'Love' storyNov 22, 2010 10:00 pm - Edward Zwick's romantic drama "Love and Other Drugs" comes in three main parts: a torrid love affair, the explosive 1996 success of a new drug called Viagra, and a man's...
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'Tangled' goes to great lengthsNov 22, 2010 10:00 pm - Where Walt Disney/Pixar's “Toy Story 3” sketched all-too human characters in an adult story about mortality and the unstoppable march of time, “Tangled” returns to class...
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'Burlesque' is no 'Cabaret'Nov 21, 2010 10:00 pm - Writer/director Steve Antin wants desperately to be Bob Fosse in his brassy, sassy musical “Burlesque,” but the laughably cliché dialogue and shallow characters sink any...
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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...