Dann Gire
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Haunting, beautiful 'The Lovely Bones' needs more heartJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - Peter Jackson's beautiful and scary fantasy "The Lovely Bones" resonated with me on a personal level that most people won't quite understand. It's narrated by a 14-year-...
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'The Book of Eli' a little too arty, a little too triteJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - On paper, or on a computer screen, "The Book of Eli" must have looked like an irresistible synthesis of popular Hollywood genres. It's a science-fiction thriller, a samu...
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'Spy Next Door' another disappointing kiddie comedyJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - Brian Levant's "The Spy Next Door" is being marketed as a family comedy, but for action movie fans, it's truly a tragedy. Jackie Chan, one of the greatest and most popul...
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Dann opens the mail bag (e-mail inbox?) for reader reactionJan 13, 2010 10:00 pm - 'Up in the Air' flawed? Hi, Dann: I found your piece on possible parallels between "A Christmas Carol" and "Up in the Air" quite interesting. One of the major dif...
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Is Reitman's 'Up in the Air' a Scrooge clone?Jan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - I have seen Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" five times now, and I've decided that the rom-com is an update of the Charles Dickens' holiday classic "Christmas Carol" with...
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'Young Victoria' director on Chicago: 'It's lovely'Jan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Normally, an explanation of why people kill people and the secret to writing good historical dramas don't pop up in the same conversation. But a chat with British actor,...
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'Daybreakers' a back-to-basics horror classicJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Finally, someone has created a bloody, blackly comic horror film that deserves to be in the company of Stuart Gordon's Grand Guignol masterpiece "The Re-Animator" and Sa...
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Ledger's last film an imaginative journeyJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Only in a Terry Gilliam movie could a major actor die during production and be replaced by three other actors all playing the same role, and still have the story make se...
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Even Adams can't salvage Irish road romanceJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - "Leap Year" is another one of those plot-by-number, formula romantic comedies that doesn't trust a woman to choose between two lovers, so the movie does it for her. You ...
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'Up in the Air' tops Dann's list of best films of '09Dec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - In 2009, Hollywood tried to kill off the romantic comedy with numerous brain-gouged features (remember "All About Steve" or "I Hate Valentine's Day" or "I Love You, Beth...