Dann Gire
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Documentary approach works in 'Cloverfield'Jan 16, 2008 10:00 pm - The heavily hyped science-fiction horror movie "Cloverfield" is a scary, unabashedly cheesy, in-your-face thriller that cheerily picks the scab off our still-fresh memor...
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Oscar, the world's most recognizable trophy, is made in ChicagoJan 16, 2008 10:00 pm - What? This is where the most recognizable trophy in the world comes from? Here? From the outside, the R.S. Owens company looks like any other nondescript building in a C...
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Kick this 'Bucket'Jan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - "The Bucket List" might as well be a McDonald's Happy Meal. We already know the contents before we buy it. We already know what it's going to taste like. The familiarity...
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Good questions, bad comments fill my e-mailJan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - Time to hit the e-mail basket and see what Daily Herald readers want to say about the movies: Dear Dann: Can you please enlighten me on something? Why is it that the Am...
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Clever 'Pirates' spins tale for kids, adults alikeJan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie" is a crazy movie for sure, but crazy like the intelligent nonsense of Monty Python crammed with film-geek refere...
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Critics love 'Blood'Jan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Now there is more "Blood." The National Society of Film Critics, comprised of America's elite movie critics, Saturday selected Paul Thomas Anderson's epic tragedy "There...
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'Missed Call' is cell-out with no suspenseJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Taylor (Ana Claudia Talancon) is menaced by "Monster Ellie" (Sarah Kubik) during a cell phone exorcism in "One Missed Call." Phony horror film a suspenseless cell-out ...
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Inflammatory dramaJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Paul Thomas Anderson's epic "There Will Be Blood" is an amazing motion picture for many reasons, the most obvious one being Daniel Day-Lewis' stretched-steel performance...
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Readers come to praise 'Juno,' not to bury itJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Dear Dann: I just read your observations concerning the movie "Juno." I make reference to "...the liveliest-written, bluntly pro-choice movie I've seen." Friends who hav...
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Four stars for 2007!Dec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - Never before in my 29 years as a film critic for the Daily Herald has this occurred: Every movie on my year-end Top 10 list has earned four stars. Amazingly, I wound up ...