Dann Gire
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Schaumburg filmmaker honored for 'Mutiny'Apr 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Making the film "Drivers Ed Mutiny" was kind of like a do-it-yourself project for Brad Hansen. He wrote it. Directed it. Produced it. He even appears in it. He also crea...
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Part of human body found in bag behind Arlington Heights apartmentsApr 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Arlington Heights detectives and members of the Major Case Assistance Unit Saturday intensified an investigation into finding out who cut up a man's body and deposited t...
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Don't bother trying to keep up with 'The Joneses'Apr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - "The Joneses" begs to be a farce. It pleads to be funnier. More acerbic. More outrageous. More critical of the consumer culture that eats away at American spirituality b...
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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...