Dann Gire
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Chicago film group to honor TarantinoJul 28, 2009 11:00 pm - With the release of his first two features, "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction," Quentin Tarantino established himself as the single most influential filmmaker of the 19...
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'Soul Power' goes behind scenes of Foreman, Ali fightJul 23, 2009 11:00 pm - 'Soul Power' Director-editor-producer Jeffrey Levy-Hinte took 30-year-old rolls of 16 mm film out of mothballs and created a toe-tapping piece of music history in this r...
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Guinea pig action flick 'G-Force' deserves an FJul 23, 2009 11:00 pm - The hits just keep getting dumber. Walt Disney's partially computer-animated "G-Force," created by action-film mogul Jerry Bruckheimer's production company, barely quali...
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10 dog tales totally worth your timeJul 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Just in time for the dog days of summer, 10 of the better canine movies ever made. (Sorry, no Benjis, Cujos or Scooby-Doos allowed. We have standards.) By the way, if yo...
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Botched 'Orphan' adopts shoddy scare tacticsJul 22, 2009 11:00 pm - "Orphan" wastes no time in letting us know that we're in the hands of filmmakers who lack the skills and imagination to mount a well-constructed horror tale. Near the be...
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Attractive cast can't save romantic 'Ugly Truth'Jul 22, 2009 11:00 pm - The ugly truth about "The Ugly Truth" is that this romantic comedy takes two popular actors and a clever, gimmicky idea - a chauvinistic TV commentator and a control-fre...
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Director Bigelow big on westerns, adrenalineJul 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Kathryn Bigelow probably loves many things, but the two I know about are westerns and adrenaline junkies. Westerns because she directed the great 1987 horror tale "Near ...
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Meeting Walter Cronkite: Here's the way it really wasJul 18, 2009 11:00 pm - I met Walter Cronkite once, in 1972. Our meeting may not have changed my life, but our brief and exciting encounter certainly cemented it. I was a photojournalist coveri...
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Turkish drama illustrates domestic decayJul 16, 2009 11:00 pm - 'Three Monkeys' A bigwig politician (Ercan Kesal) hits a pedestrian with his car, then lets his chauffeur (Yavuz Bingol) take the rap in exchange for money. This tragic ...
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Inventive, brutally honest romantic comedy ranks among year's bestJul 16, 2009 11:00 pm - "(500) Days of Summer" traces a greeting card writer's romance that lasts exactly 500 days from the moment that Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) lays eyes on the beguiling Sum...