Dann Gire
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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...
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Clichés fly in sincere, moving underdog storyAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Audiences hungry to get their fix of sports movie clichés won't be disappointed by this sincere and winning tale based on the true story of the first female quarterback ...
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Ambitious, but muddled high school musical comedy shake-spears artAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - The sheer idea of a movie called "Hamlet 2" turns out to be the funniest thing about this new comedy, although an edgy, full-blown high school musical number with the ir...
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Funny 'Bunny' hops to it as female empowerment comedyAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Who woulda thunk that a comedy called "The House Bunny" could become the sweetest, purest "summer movie" of the summer? Columbia Pictures had such little faith in Fred W...
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Comic 'Rocker' rocks the aged with fun and affectionAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I saw a press screening for "The Rocker" five weeks ago, and the best thing I remember about it was a scene where Rainn Wilson sticks his head through the sun roof of a ...