Dann Gire
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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...
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'I Love You, Beth Cooper' short of suburbs, humorJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - If there's any doubt that Buffalo Grove High School graduate Larry Doyle wrote the screenplay for "I Love You, Beth Cooper," consider the opening scene in which graduati...
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Doyle: I wanted 'Beth Cooper' filmed at Buffalo Grove HighJul 07, 2009 11:00 pm - For the record, Larry Doyle really wanted the high school in the new movie he scripted, "I Love You, Beth Cooper," to be called Buffalo Grove High School. After all, Buf...