Dann Gire
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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...
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'Legend of the Guardians' is one strange birdSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" is one strange bird. It's an animated fantasy obviously intended for children, yet it depicts genocidal violence perpetra...
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Local film fests offer features and shorts from across the globeSep 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Fall has arrived and you know what that means, right? Film festivals! As sure as the leaves turn red, pumpkins pop up and cooler weather invades the Midwest, movie festi...
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'Alpha and Omega' no leader of the (3-D) packSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Early this summer when I was a guest on the now-defunct, local CBS morning news show "Monsters and Money," I was asked about the future of 3-D movies. I said that the bi...
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Give this teen sex comedy an A for effort, at leastSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Emma Stone possesses soft, come-hither eyes that could drink in the oceans, a sexually playful, raw, husky voice that could melt icebergs, and a feminine fragility that ...
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True grit: Affleck makes tough but tender 'Town' his ownSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - "The Town" is a slickly constructed heist thriller that dares to suggest that a person born in violence and brokenness can yearn for something better and can muster the ...
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Judge at Elgin film festival might look familiarSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - I'll be the judge of that If you're coming to the Elgin Short Film Festival on Saturday night, look me up. I'll be there with WGN's Dean Richards and other VIPs a...
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Ebert brings back new version of 'At the Movies'Sep 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Producers Roger and Chaz Ebert announced Friday that the cutting-edge movie review TV show "At the Movies" will be resurrected in January on WTTW as "Roger Ebert Present...
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'I'm Still Here' mockumentary plays audience for chumpsSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - If Casey Affleck's new movie "I'm Still Here" had been a genuine exploration of Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix's wacked-out journey to become a white hip-hop star...