Dann Gire
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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...
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Intermittent quality: Fact-based drama 'Flash' fails to notice its real storyOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - "Flash of Genius" completely misses the dramatic essence of its own story. The filmmakers - producer-turned-director Marc Abraham and screenwriter Philip Railsback - thi...
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The fans dish on Dann GireOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - "Please grow up and open your mind a little." - A Schaumburg 15-year-old "I sent (your review) to a group of nuns who are praying for you." - A Barrington woman "Our c...
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The celebs dish on Dann GireOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - "You're not a major critic." - Filmmaker Mel Brooks "A damned fine writer!" - Novelist/cop Joseph Wambaugh "Thanks for the hot review, homeboy!" - "Your imaginary fr...
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Dann Gire reminisces about three decades spent at the moviesOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Wanna know what I miss lately? I miss those late-night phone calls from upset, often inebriated Daily Herald readers who, after seeing a movie, would call up their favor...
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Stoic Moore is less in bleak, belligerent 'Blindness'Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Fernando Meirelles' bleak and belligerent "Blindness" begins as an M. Night Shyamalan mystery, then careens into an apocalyptical "Lord of the Flies" before crashing and...
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Dann's favorite celebrity quotesOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Thirty years of interviewing filmmakers yields a lot of great quotes. Here are my favorites: "Greed." Director Robert Altman on the greatest problem facing the motion p...
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Clichés dog silly 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua'Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - There's a difference between a dumb Walt Disney movie for kids, and a parody of a dumb Walt Disney movie for kids. Except in the case of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." With ...