Dann Gire
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Mike Myers' 'Guru' goes for the grossJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Angry Hindu political action groups have demanded that Canada and Great Britain ban Mike Myers' new comedy "The Love Guru." They have also demanded the U.S. rate it NC-1...
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Dumb 'Smart' lacks TV show's zany edgeJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - This isn't your mom and dad's "Get Smart." It's barely "Smart" at all. Sure, the characters and organizations retain the same names as those in the 1965 TV series that s...
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No insight in 'Savage Grace'Jun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Tom Kalin's "Savage Grace" boasts top-shelf performances, well-crafted camera work, a literate script and a fact-based story that includes betrayal, adultery, three-way ...
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'Fugitive Pieces' lacks dramaJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - "To live with ghosts requires solitude," observes Jakob Beer, the tortured novelist hero of Jeremy Podeswa's plodding dramatic interpretation of Anne Michaels' novel. A...
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Video game violence, mayhem make 'Hulk' not so incredibleJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Hardly anyone liked Ang Lee's character-driven 2003 "Hulk" movie with Aussie star Eric Bana, so French action director Louis "The Transporter" Leterrier took over for th...
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'Happening' disappointing in the endJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - It begins with two women sitting quietly on a bench in New York City's Central Park. Above the din of traffic noise and the rising wind, a scream. "Did you hear that?" t...
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'Zohan' a cut above usual Sandler fareJun 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Adam Sandler's new comedy "Don't Mess With the Zohan" revels in juvenile tastelessness, rude nudity, sexual shenanigans and cartoon violence. And yet, it might have a gr...
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Funny 'Kung Fu' martials the art of animated action-comedyJun 04, 2008 11:00 pm - DreamWorks Pictures' crisply scripted, computer-animated action/comedy "Kung Fu Panda" propagates the fantasy that any slacker doofus, even a lazy panda, can become a he...
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'Sex and the City' movie lacks any real sizzleMay 28, 2008 11:00 pm - On cable TV (and later on syndicated networks in a sanitized format), the original HBO series "Sex and the City" became extremely successful with its character-driven sc...
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'Crystal Skull' an Indiana Jones celebrationMay 20, 2008 11:00 pm - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" celebrates all the things we love about the previous three adventures of the world's most famous archaeologist: ...