Dann Gire
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Carradine, Jeremy at 'Erectus' openJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - "Homo Erectus" live! Personal appearances don't get nuttier than this. "Kill Bill" star David Carradine joins porn legend Ron Jeremy, actor Hayes MacArthur and Chicago's...
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Our readers run the gamut on their favorite bad guysJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Dark Knight" continues to break box office records in Hollywood, but a record was also broken this week at the Daily Herald, where I received a landslide of reader ...
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'Brothers' a step up from the usual crass, adolescent comedyJul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Before I review "Step Brothers," the latest movie to come out of the Judd Apatow School of Painfully Poignant and Funny Crass Comedies, I must make an appeal to the stud...
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Chicago movie happenings this weekendJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Meet the real 'Parents' Chicago filmmaker Greg Glienna will present a rare showing of his original 1992 comedy "Meet the Parents" before it became a 2000 studio film sta...
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Flawed 'Mamma Mia' still funJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - As a movie musical, "Mamma Mia!" is a mess. But a most amusing mess. It features Hollywood icon Meryl Streep bouncing around the Greek islands like a giddy teenager, eff...
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Chicago stands in for Gotham in 'Dark Knight'Jul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - It took six weeks of careful calculations before stunt coordinator Chris Corbould thought he could safely flip a 40-foot 18-wheeler on its back. He tested the calculatio...
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Does Heath Ledger's Joker measure up to Hollywood's greatest villains?Jul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Could Heath Ledger win a posthumous Academy Award for playing the Caped Crusader's most celebrated villain, the Joker, in the new movie "The Dark Knight"? Sure he could....
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It is a dark and stormy 'Knight'Jul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Everything you've heard about "The Dark Knight" is true. A visionary motion picture that torches the rule book on superhero movies and redefines the genre, Christopher N...
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Meet 'Dave' a stereotypical wasted Murphy comedyJul 10, 2008 11:00 pm - I couldn't watch a single sequence in Eddie Murphy's new comedy "Meet Dave" without thinking I'd been magically teleported to the Cranium Commander exhibit at Walt Disne...
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3-D effects rule 'Center of the Earth' in update of Jules Verne classicJul 09, 2008 11:00 pm - "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D" becomes the first motion picture to be shot and released in digital 3D. It also marks the feature directorial debut of Eric Brevi...