Dann Gire
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Loathe thy neighborSep 17, 2008 11:00 pm - The racially charged "Lakeview Terrace" should be exactly the kind of gritty suburban thriller tailor-made for the abrasive sensibilities of director/writer Neil LaBute....
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Prickly characters, crassness mar 'The Women'Sep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - At a pivotal point in Diane English's "The Women," Mary Haines says to her best friend Sylvia Fowler, "You act as if this is some 1930s movie!" The joke is, of course, t...
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On screen this weekendSep 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Free "Grease"! To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Classic Cinemas will show the original 1978 musical "Grease" at all its Chicagoland theaters for free! If you ask me, t...
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'Righteous' kills interest in cop serial killer thrillerSep 11, 2008 11:00 pm - "Righteous Kill" works soooooooo hard to convince us that a certain character has been administering vigilante justice on the local scumbag population that you begin to ...
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'Burn After Reading' a hit-and-mostly-miss movieSep 10, 2008 11:00 pm - "Burn After Reading" is the kind of patchy, breezy black comedy the Coen brothers could knock off in their sleep. They probably did. After mounting last year's highly i...
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'Twilight', 'Body of Lies' highlight fall film seasonSep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Fall generally means one thing to Hollywood studios: time to bring out the heavy dramatic firepower for the battery of year-end movie awards. This autumn, we'll feel the...
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Watch, discuss Polanski's 'Chinatown'Sep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - "Chinatown" returns Roman Polanski's classic 1974 drama will be shown before a discussion led by Virginia Wright Wexman, professor emerita of English and art history at ...
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Gire, Benson to explore the classic comediesAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Join me and James Bond novelist Raymond Benson as "Dann and Raymond's Movie Club" resumes to look at classic comedies from the silent era up through the 1950s, with clip...
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This weekend in local cinemaAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Second Teen Film Fest Join me as master of ceremonies for the Second Annual Teen Film Fest today from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Twelve film shorts are entered. Three will receiv...
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Creative bankruptcy fuels 'Death Race' remake 'Death' a race with audience-pandering pablumAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - You know the movie industry must truly be creatively bankrupt when it remakes a futuristic 1975 thriller set eight years in our past. Paul Bartel's "Death Race 2000" sta...