Dann Gire
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Smith strikes back with a tastelessly funny 'Zack and Miri'Oct 29, 2008 11:00 pm - With a title like "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," you know right away we're not talking about a movie you can drop the kids off to see at the mall while Christmas shopping...
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A taste for horror: Treat yourself to 31 fearful films this HalloweenOct 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Ah, Halloween is upon us and we've got just the treat for you! Thirty-one tasty flavors of fear made from the scariest movies in history. To help me out, I summoned fort...
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Gire, Benson to break down BondOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Join me and novelist/film scholar Raymond Benson as "Dann and Raymond's Movie Club" looks at the 007 films in "No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die!" Clips from 16 films pl...
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Eastwood's 'Changeling' a superbly crafted mystery with surprisesOct 25, 2008 11:00 pm - In Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," we have a superbly crafted period drama that begins as a simple missing child case before it effortlessly shifts gears into something m...
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Crime clichés shoot down 'Pride and Glory'Oct 23, 2008 11:00 pm - "Anything that makes cops look culpable is bad!" groans Chief of Detectives Francis Tierney, Sr. Does that mean any movie that makes cops look bad is culpable? "Pride an...
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The Wright choice for Powell in 'W'Oct 20, 2008 11:00 pm - If he doesn't watch it, actor Jeffrey Wright could become typecast as Hollywood's resident good guy. In two movies, Oliver Stone's current political biopic "W." and Marc...
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'Secret Life of Bees' not typical HollywoodOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - This sanitized 1964-set drama centers around three fascinating, educated, cultured black women running their own honey business during the Civil Rights movement in South...
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'Sex Drive' coasts on cheap laughsOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - In the mood for a raunchy, gross-out road comedy about sex-crazed nerds and nervous virgins on the loose? Or a movie that tries to make amends for its dumb-but-calculate...
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Bush-league: 'W.' a provocative, premature presidential dramaOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - In one of its sillier sports metaphors, Oliver Stone's "W." casts George W. Bush as a star baseball player performing to the roaring approval of an invisible stadium cro...
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Not-so-great Scott!Oct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - At a key moment in "Body of Lies," Ridley Scott's Middle Eastern bid to rip off a Jason Bourne adventure, a Jordanian security chief lectures CIA agent Roger Ferris that...