Dann Gire
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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...
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'Wimpy' author, stars stand and deliverMar 19, 2010 11:00 pm - The two kid stars of the new movie "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" - Zachary Gordon, 12, and Robert Capron, 11, - are in a room at Chicago's Four Seasons Hotel along with Jeff Ki...
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Go see 'The Bounty Hunter' or 'Repo Men'? Hmmm ...Mar 18, 2010 11:00 pm - No 'Bounty Hunter'? I did not review Columbia Pictures' new rom-com "The Bounty Hunter" today, because Columbia scheduled its press screening at the same time tha...
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Gire chats with child stars of 'Wimpy Kid'Mar 18, 2010 11:00 pm - The two kid stars of the new movie "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" - Zachary Gordon, 12, and Robert Capron, 11 - are in a room at Chicago's Four Seasons Hotel along with Jeff Kin...
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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...