Dann Gire
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Juliette Lewis talks about 'Conviction'Oct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - If any Oscar nominations come out of Tony Goldwyn's fact-based drama “Conviction, I'm putting my money on Juliette Lewis as Roseanna Perry, a trailer-park denizen whose ...
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Action comedy 'RED' blasts aging stereotypesOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - I walked into Robert Schwentke's “RED" thinking I would see a silly, geriatric revisiting of “The A-Team" or “Mission: Impossible." I got a crazy, off-the-charts, action...
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Norton, director Curran didn't aim to make 'Stone' an easy filmOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Oscar-nominated actor Edward Norton and director John Curran were in Chicago to promote “Stone," the opening feature in the Chicago International Film Festival and a new...
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Book adaptation took a true movie lover or twoOct 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Book adaptation took a true movie lover or two
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'Kind of a Funny Story' a low-key comedyOct 06, 2010 11:00 pm - It's kind of funny, yes. Kind of serious, too. Kind of sad as well. Mostly, it's kind of restrained and keeps its characters at an elbow's length, just enough for us not...
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Dann in reel life: 'Paranormal' inactivityOct 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Oh, oh. Things don't look so optimistic for the anxiously awaited sequel to the 2007 horror sleeper “Paranormal Activity. Paramount Pictures will only screen the sequel ...
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'Grave' unleashes rabid revenge fantasyOct 06, 2010 11:00 pm - I cannot defend Steven Monroe's remake of the 1978 exploitation horror benchmark “I Spit on Your Grave as a great work of art, or barely a work of art at all. But at lea...
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Lame 'Secretariat' deserves to be shotOct 06, 2010 11:00 pm - If this movie were a horse, it would be shot. You know, for being lame. Randall Wallace's hokey, worshipful horse operetta “Secretariat comes to the big screen practical...
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Audience reaction to 'I Spit on Your Grave' remake just as scarySep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Steven Monroe's remake of the brutal 1978 rape-and-revenge exploitation classic "I Spit on Your Grave" opens Oct. 8. I saw it last week at Chicago's Music Box Theatre. T...
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Oscar winner puts education to the test in latest docSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Davis Guggenheim won the Oscar for his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." He's threatening to do it again with his new doc on American public education,...