Dann Gire
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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...
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Cascade takes filmgoers back in timeJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - "What we need is a drought for 90 days," Jeff Kohlberg says. "That would be really great for the drive-ins. One time several years ago, we hardly had rain for three mont...
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'Hangover' comically blunt but hilariousJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Before we get to "The Hangover," we should ask the first and most important question of comedy: Did you laugh? Yes, I did. And my derriere is still running around the Ri...
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Revamped 'Land of the Lost' not fit for kids - or adults acting like themJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - I'd say "Land of the Lost" is a sketchy, embarrassingly disjointed, monster-packed movie that sniggling junior high students would make, but that would be insulting to s...
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Drive-in fan: 'You want to keep that tradition going'Jun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Fernando Silva loves the McHenry Outdoor Theatre. "It's pretty great!" the 37-year-old West Dundee resident says. "We come out about 10 times a year. We love it." His da...
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'Hambone' spreads his love of good music via radioJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - By day, attorney Scott Hammer defends psychiatrists in malpractice suits. It's his specialty. By night, Thursdays to be specific, Hammer drives from his Long Grove home ...