Dann Gire
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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,...
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Tony Curtis, Hollywood's 'great handsome guy', rememberedSep 29, 2010 11:00 pm - I have interviewed Hollywood superstar Tony Curtis three times. Each time was a joy because I felt as if I were interviewing a kid who only looked like adult. "Do you kn...
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Face value: Witty 'Social Network' a telling portrait of our timesSep 29, 2010 11:00 pm - David Fincher's superbly wrought "The Social Network" robustly chronicles the messy birth of that cultural, economic, political and sexual game-changer called Facebook, ...
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Ryan Reynolds digs into emotional, one-man role in 'Buried'Sep 26, 2010 11:00 pm - "Buried" takes place inside a coffin. No cutaways. No flashbacks. For 95 minutes. Just an American truck driver buried in a coffin somewhere in Iraq. The only things in ...
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Actor, director recall harrowing shoot on 'Buried'Sep 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Don't feel bummed if you want to see Ryan Reynolds' new thriller "Buried" but it only opens this weekend in Chicago and Evanston. "Buried" will expand throughout the sub...