Dann Gire
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'Transformers' sequel too much of bad thingJun 23, 2009 11:00 pm - First it's numbing. Then it's numbinger. Michael Bay's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" launches a full-scale sensory assault on its audiences, pelting them with re...
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'Seraphine', 'Everlasting Moments' worth the ticketJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Martin Provost's exquisitely photographed drama 'Seraphine' tells the fact-based story of Seraphine Louis, a primitive painter discovered in 1912 by a German art critic ...
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Caveman comedy cries out for sharper edgeJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - All the way through Harold Ramis' new caveman comedy "Year One," I had the impression I was watching a series of pulled punches and blunted rapier thrusts, as if Ramis k...
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Gifted cast gives 'The Proposal' its polishJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - By most standards, Anne Fletcher's "The Proposal" should be a formula romantic comedy disaster. Its plot and characters exhibit an aversion to originality, especially th...
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Ramis reflects on comedy career, recent honorJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - The weather was wet, but the wit dry when Harold Ramis arrived at Chicago's Music Box Theatre to show his new movie "Year One" and accept a lifetime achievement award at...
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Yoga movie doesn't enlighten viewers; quest for domestic blissJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - 'Enlighten Up' Kate Churchill, a former producing director at Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre, follows a non-religious, 29-year-old Canadian ex-journalist (Nick Rosen) ar...
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'Imagine That' another dull Eddie Murphy comedyJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Apparently, the screenwriters of "Imagine That" really love the word "good." "I'm good!" says Eddie Murphy. "Evan's good!" says Thomas Haden Church. "You are very good!"...
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Conventional plotting, dull hero derail noisy 'Pelham'Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - For all of its visual bombast, Hollywood action stars and updated screenplay by "L.A. Confidential" writer Brian Helgeland, "The Taking of Pelham 123" remains a passionl...
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Outdoor movie screens still in McHenry and West ChicagoJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Looks like the world's first drive-in movie critic, Joe Bob Briggs, called it right, way back in the '70s: "The drive-in will never die!" Despite being on the endangered...
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Quietly moving 'O'Horten' at Music BoxJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - A quietly moving story about quietly moving on. Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's art house offering "O'Horten" is less interested in plot than in the moody visuals surro...