Dann Gire
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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...
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Emma Stone should be on short list for Oscar nomineesSep 23, 2010 11:00 pm - I have seen the teen sex comedy "Easy A" three times already, and I'm now convinced that Emma Stone's performance should be on the shortlist of Oscar nominees for best a...
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Dull 'You Again' revisits high school horrorsSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - "High school was a horror movie!" Marni shrieks. "And this weekend was the sequel!" Actually, if Marni could see her own movie "You Again," she would realize high school...
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Greed isn't good: 'Wall Street' sequel sells outSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - In Oliver Stone's sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," financial uber-villain Gordon Gekko goes soft, the characters around him go soft in the head, and the directo...