Dann Gire
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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...
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Pardon the trailer trashing, but a commercial before a commercial?Oct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - So where's the outrage? OK, outrage may be a little strong, but come on people. Look what's happening. I recently went online and called up a theatrical trailer to the n...
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Dann chats with Drew Barrymore; Moore breaks little new groundOct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Drew talks, Take One I sat down with the effervescently cute Drew Barrymore at Chicago's Metro club for a quick chat about her directorial debut, the rollerblading babes...
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Barrymore whips it good as director of roller comedySep 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Every frame in the fun, breezy, coming-of-age roller derby dramedy "Whip It" oozes with the essence of Barrymore. Drew Barrymore. You know, the little girl who screamed ...
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'Lying' lays out daring premise in a subtle waySep 30, 2009 11:00 pm - "The Invention of Lying" tells such an imaginative, witty story with such likable main characters that you hardly notice the subversive idea festering at the core of its...
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Heartless 'Fame' remake just lameSep 26, 2009 11:00 pm - As I drove away from a Chicago screening of Kevin Tancharoen's "Fame" Wednesday night, I turned on 100.3 FM on the car radio and guess what I heard? Irene Cara belting o...
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Thankfully, real life often just 'like a movie'Sep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - "Like a movie." That's how a West Chicago woman described the scene when escaped fugitive Robert Maday's carjacked automobile raced past her in a desperate attempt to es...
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More reader pressure over Dann's 'Whiteout" reviewSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Under pressure Daily Herald reader Joseph O'Day applies some pressure to my review of the abysmally silly thriller "Whiteout" in which I suggested prop planes aren't pre...