Dann Gire
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Woodstock Theatre to show 'Groundhog Day'Jan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Harold Ramis' 1993 comedy masterpiece returns to the big screen just in time for the real event on Monday. Extensively filmed right here in Woodstock, "G.D." is one of t...
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'Inkheart' an emotionally challenged fantasyJan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Despite an impressive battery of high-quality special effects and a fun menagerie of fantastical creatures, "Inkheart" possesses much more ink (mostly on its characters'...
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Five things the Oscars got wrong, five things they got right and ...Jan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Five things the voters of the 81st Academy Awards nominations got wrong: 5. Nominating Brad Pitt as best actor for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Come on now...
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'Benjamin Button' leads Oscar nomination; 'Dark Knight' snubbedJan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Thursday buttoned up 13 Academy Award nominations, including best picture. Unsurprisingly, "The Dark Knight" didn't. Last summer, C...
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Animated 'Waltz With Bashir' haunting, surrealJan 20, 2009 10:00 pm - Ari Folman uses stark animation to tell his personal documentary that reflects on his inability to remember what he did as an Israeli soldier during the 1982 massacres a...
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An invisible man sees himself for the first time in sweet 'Harvey'Jan 15, 2009 10:00 pm - Remember the endings of those routine action movies where the villain is about to kill the captured hero, but he's helpless to save himself - then, suddenly the hero's s...
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Fact-based WWII drama reaps biblical referencesJan 15, 2009 10:00 pm - The best tough-guy line in "Defiance" can't match Clint Eastwood's "Get off my lawn!" from "Gran Torino," but it'll do to kick-start this review. A Russian resistance fi...
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Two Chicago filmmakers join forces to create 'Defiance'Jan 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Don't ask Edward Zwick to direct the next Spider-man sequel. Or Batman or Iron Man, either. "I'm a little bit tired of superheroes," said the director of acclaimed movie...
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'Dogs' a happy tail of civil disobedience schoolJan 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Here's a daring, wacky kids fantasy that knows exactly what it's about and knows exactly which buttons to push to make its audiences swoon with puppy love. I am convince...
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'Blart' not smart, but James gets a good partJan 14, 2009 10:00 pm - It takes "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" 11 minutes before the titular character flashes us the familiar "thumbs up" gesture, a visual device designed to subconsciously convince ...