Dann Gire
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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...
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'Half-Blood Prince' the darkest Potter film yetJul 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Of the six Harry Potter films so far, David Yates' "The Half-Blood Prince" comes the closest to a classic horror tale, not in terms of monsters, violence or bloodletting...
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'Blood: The Last Vampire' better as a video gameJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - With bad acting, fake digital blood effects and blurry fight scenes, "Blood: The Last Vampire" is more of a video game than action film based on a 2001 cult anime. Korea...
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'Brüno' a brutally blunt comedy only for the boldJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Soon after I had seen Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy "Brüno," a studio publicist asked me what I thought of it, and the only words that came to me were: "It's an eyeball...