Dann Gire
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'Predators' falls prey to weak second halfJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Fast-paced, taut with tension, stuffed with suspense and mystery, "Predators" is easily the best entry in 20th Century Fox's science-fiction alien-hunter action franchis...
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Villain finds his softer side in comedic 'Despicable Me'Jul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Universal Pictures' "Despicable Me" fills the bill as a mildly diverting, whimsically entertaining 3-D computer-animated feature for kids. But in the wake of Pixar's mul...
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Stand up and fight for your very own 'Grease Sing-A-Long'Jun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - 'Grease' on demand? "Grease Sing-A-Long" opens next Thursday exclusively at the River East 21 Theater in Chicago. But if Daily Herald readers go online and demand...
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Lame dialogue, awkward acting drag down 'The Last Airbender'Jun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - "The Last Airbender" blows. The main characters in this special-effects stuffed epic don't just bend air. They bend fire, water, earth, plus logic, humor, acting and sto...
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'Easy Rider?' 'Rocky?' An eclectic look at patriotic moviesJun 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Raymond: Dann, it's nearly Fourth of July and we need to get all hot and patriotic. It's funny, when I look at lists of so-called "patriotic movies," most of them are wa...
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All the parts come together in 'Eclipse'Jun 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Her mouth says yes, I will marry the vampire. But her heart says wait, let's not count the werewolf out. In "Eclipse," the third film based on the popular supernatural r...
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'Grown Ups' opts for the juvenile instead of the matureJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - "Grown Ups" is a sleazy, hypocritical family comedy that makes fun of fat people for being overweight, ridicules older people for having a libido, makes sport of "ugly" ...
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A little bit of job advice, courtesy of two 'Twilight' starsJun 23, 2010 11:00 pm - 'Twilight' job advice? Attention college grads! Today's job advice column is just for you, especially if you're worried that you won't find employment in your...
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'Knight and Day' delivers lots of speed, little substanceJun 22, 2010 11:00 pm - If you took all the breathtaking stunts and wild chase sequences in "Knight and Day" and pressed them together so tight that they squeezed everything else out, you'd sti...
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Granik's 'Winter's Bone' quietly captivatingJun 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Debra Granik's superbly directed, acely acted atmospheric drama "Winter's Bone" works like a gritty backwoods police procedural -- without the police. It's a superior wo...