Dann Gire
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'Runaways' features familiar rock band refrainMar 18, 2010 11:00 pm - "The Runaways" tells that oh-so-familiar tale of a promising, cutting-edge rock band created in a messy birth of ego and opportunism before hitting the heights of fame a...
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Organ-ized crime: 'Repo Men' a gory sci-fi thrillerMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - "Repo Men" is a horrifically violent and gory science-fiction action thriller surfing on an allegorical wave of American political Zeitgeist. It wants to grab us by our...
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Sweet 'Wimpy Kid' comically captures middle-school angstMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - From the very beginning, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" kept reminding me of some other motion picture. I couldn't pin it down right away. Then, it came to me: "A Christmas Stor...
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'Rambo'-like 'Green Zone' just revisionist history of Iraq conflictMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Matt Damon's muscular and fast-moving action film "The Green Zone" may be marketed as an Iraq war thriller, but it's really a classic example of revisionistic wish fulfi...
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Cast delivers in weak rom com 'League'Mar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Here's a breezy summer sex comedy that somehow jumped the gates and wound up as a spring break release. Jim Field Smith's "She's Out of My League" is like a vintage Judd...
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'Family Wedding' invites all racial clichésMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Lucia Ramirez has a confession for her conservative, Mexican-American father, Miguel. She dropped out of law school and intends to marry a black medical student, then go...
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'Out of My League' star to Gire: No one's out of my leagueMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - I sat down at Chicago's Trump International Towers for a brief chat with the stars of the new comedy "She's Out of My League," Jay Baruchel, 27, and Nate Torrence, 32. T...
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Dann chats with Disney's first African-American princessMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Five questions for Anika Noni Rose, who supplies the voice and personality of Tiana, Walt Disney's first African-American princess in "The Princess and the Frog," coming...
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Moody 'Remember Me' revels in dark romanceMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - "Remember Me" makes an easy target for criticism. It's slow and slightly pretentious with "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson channeling James Dean, or at least James Franc...
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Palatine High alum wins Oscar for work with 'Avatar'Mar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Clutching his first Oscar, cinematographer and Palatine High School graduate Mauro Fiore Sunday thanked "Avatar" director James Cameron "for his amazing vision" and his ...