Dann Gire
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'Perfect Game' has that after-school special feelApr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The title "The Perfect Game" kinda gives away the ending, don't you think? This independent drama, directed by William Dear, tells the true story of Mexican ballplayers ...
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This comic book action movie merits its titleApr 14, 2010 11:00 pm - The title doesn't lie. Here comes one Red Bull of an action film that doesn't play nice. It combines the fantastic underpinnings of a superhero costume adventure with th...
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NW Suburban directors lauded at Cedar Rapid film festApr 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Local filmmakers win! A Reel Life salute goes to film directors from Schaumburg and Palatine who picked up top honors - called Eddy Awards - at last weekend's Ced...
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Brain-dead 'After.Life' preachy, predictableApr 10, 2010 11:00 pm - If Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's dullingly un-horrific and pseudo-enlightening "After.Life" ever becomes a cult movie, it will undoubtedly be one for necrophiliacs. After...
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'West Side Story' stars in Naperville, WoodridgeApr 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Three stars of the 1961 motion picture musical "West Side Story" will reunite to discuss their work in the hit movie this weekend. George Chakiris (Bernardo), Rita Moren...
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Horror tale 'Black Waters of Echo's Pond' earns a PanApr 08, 2010 11:00 pm - If you crossed Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead" with Joe Johnston's "Jumanji," you'd sure have a much better movie than Gabriel Bologna's "The Black Waters of Echo's Pond." A...
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Carell, Fey sparkle in comic crime caper 'Date Night'Apr 07, 2010 11:00 pm - "Date Night" steals its principal plot device from Alfred Hitchcock's classic "North by Northwest," its spectacular New York car crashes from "The Blues Brothers," and i...
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Geneva film fest grows to 4-day affairApr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Geneva film fest grows Last year, Geneva's fledgling film festival took up a single day. Now, the event has grown to four days, April 14-18, with screenings, work...
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Weak mythology: Remake of Greek gods fantasy is a bash of the 'Titans'Apr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - On the sandaled heels of the last silly Greek mythology-themed movie - "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" - comes yet a sillier, clunkier, and more dra...
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Eva Marie Saint: Hitchcock 'didn't give much direction'Mar 25, 2010 11:00 pm - She said no to Alfred Hitchcock. Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint was on the set of Hitchcock's 1959 classic "North by Northwest" when the director told her she sho...