Dann Gire
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Animated 'Astro Boy' fueled by fun -- but has a conscience, as wellOct 22, 2009 11:00 pm - This movie had me at "What? I've got machine guns in my butt?" The slick, computer-animated action film "Astro Boy" will probably not please fans of Tezuka Osamu's origi...
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Willem Dafoe embraces controversial role in 'Antichrist'Oct 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Most people probably know Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin from the first blockbuster "Spider-Man" movie. But the two-time Oscar nominee is also a star of what will cert...
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Englund looks back on a killer of a roleOct 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Here's the question I've been dying to ask horror superstar Robert Englund for almost 20 years, ever since he created Freddy Krueger, the now-seminal razor-gloved arch-v...
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Movie lover scares up annual Flashback conventionOct 22, 2009 11:00 pm - I know all about the sacrifices that Mike Kerz made to turn his dream of a horror convention into a reality. I met Mike when he was a manager at One Schaumburg Place Cin...
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'Vampire's Assistant' loses its bite in latest incarnationOct 22, 2009 11:00 pm - When you come out of Paul Weitz's comic horror film "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," you don't feel like you've watched a real movie. It's more like the pilot...
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Whiny blogger movies hopefully won't become a trendOct 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Reel Life review: 'Motherhood' Already this year, I've seen two movies about whiny, inferiority-complexed women who seek personal validation by writing blogs about their...
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Father seeks crazed justice in smart 'Citizen'Oct 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Take Charles Bronson's vigilante architect from Michael Winner's semi-classic "Death Wish" and mix him with Tobin Bell's insanely creative sociopath Jigsaw from the "Saw...
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'Wild Things' faithfully adapts classic children's storyOct 15, 2009 11:00 pm - The problem with filmmakers taking an extremely short children's story and expanding it into a full-length feature film is that they're taking an extremely short childre...
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Borgnine in Naperville for double featureOct 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Ernest Borgnine won the Oscar for playing the lead character in 1956's "Marty," but people remember him mostly as the cop married to Stella Stevens in the pivotal 1972 d...
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'Couples' a marriage of the inane and the triteOct 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Hollywood must really have it in for Buffalo Grove. How else to explain why the Northwest suburb has been used as the setting for two inane and intelligence-abusing roma...