Dann Gire
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Mauled cop comedy is Rogen's dark counterpart to popular 'Paul Blart'Apr 08, 2009 11:00 pm - "Observe and Report" is a dangerously funny movie, an unnerving shock-o-rama of laughs, blood, sex and swear words that actually earns the right to be described by the o...
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Tivoli tops list of best movie theatersApr 02, 2009 11:00 pm - The Tivoli is tops! Classic Cinemas' flagship Tivoli Theatre has for a second year been voted "best movie theater" by readers of West Suburban Living magazine. Classic r...
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Third 'Furious' sequel a collision of spectacular car races, inert actingApr 02, 2009 11:00 pm - The one reason I liked Justin Lin's "Fast & Furious" has nothing to do with the dialogue - a laughable mess of cool-guy chatter and silly philosophizing - or its pulse-p...
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Films all shook up!Mar 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Films all shook up! Join me and 007 novelist Raymond Benson when Dann & Raymond's Movie Club presents "All Shook Up: Rock 'n' Roll Hits the Movies" with clips from "This...
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'Waltz With Bashir' at After HoursMar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - 'Waltz With Bashir' From the After Hours Film Society comes an Oscar-nominated animated doc about an Israeli (filmmaker Ari Folman) who can't recall his role in a 1982 m...
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It's spy vs. spy in witty take on corporate espionageMar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - After winning seven Oscar nominations for his excellent corporate drama "Michael Clayton," Tony Gilroy lightens up the cloak-and-dagger subculture of American business w...
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You gotta 'Love' Rudd and Segel together againMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - When you put actors Paul Rudd and Jason Segel together in a room with their "I Love You, Man" director John Hamburg, a film critic can just forget about having any contr...
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Juvenile humor, sympathetic characters in comedy about candorMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - What we get in John Hamburg's funny, moronic, platonic comedy "I Love You, Man" is an inspired, undercranked comic performance by Paul Rudd, whose mastery of the art of ...
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Say no to 'Knowing,' a silly merger of the occult and sci-fiMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Alex Proyas' "Knowing" has got to be the most ridiculous, far-fetched and silliest attempt at a serious work of science fiction during the last two decades. Yet, I found...
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Actor J.K. Simmons still spreading comic joyMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - This interview with actor J.K. Simmons would never have happened if my daughter Lauren hadn't accidentally bumped into him on the streets of New York. They hit it off pr...