Dann Gire
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Austen's powersSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - I can't guarantee that manly men won't lose some testosterone while watching "The Jane Austen Book Club." But those fearless enough to venture into this smart and engagi...
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'Good Luck' chucks romance in favor of gross comedySep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - "Good Luck Chuck" valiantly strives to become one of those sexy romantic comedies that seamlessly stitches ultragross humor with lots of female nudity and insightful obs...
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Gross 'Good luck' chuck-full of problemsSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - "Good Luck Chuck" valiantly strives to become one of those sexy romantic comedies that seamlessly stitches ultragross humor with lots of female nudity and insightful obs...
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Fall film guide -- a novel approachSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - How fitting that the oldest extant piece of Western literature, "Beowulf," will be coming this fall to a theater near us. It's now a movie from Chicago's own Robert Zeme...
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'Woodcock' tries, but ends up wasting comic premiseSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - "Mr. Woodcock" boasts a perfect cast and lots of laughs, plus it serves as an example of what happens when filmmakers have an inspired comic idea, but don't know what to...
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Taymor's latest is bold, but it left me coldSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - • In the audacious "Across the Universe," filmmaker and "Lion King" stage creator Julie Taymor jams a bunch of Beatles tunes onto the soundtrack -- sung by its cast mem...
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"The Brave One" a cop-outSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Shortly after Erica Bain kills her first perp in Neil Jordan's shamelessly pro-vigilante B-movie drama "The Brave One," she goes into the bathroom and upchucks. This sce...
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'Silk' spins history for dummiesSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - When Francois Girard's "Silk" premieres on home video, it should come wrapped in a bright yellow cover marked with big, block letters: "Pretentious Historical Dramas for...
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'Hatchet' a sick valentine to '80s killer thrillersSep 06, 2007 11:00 pm - • Watching "Hatchet" is like time-warping back to the early '80s when hordes of indie killer thrillers such as "Friday the 13th," "Humongous," "The Burning" and "Madman"...
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Ideal cast, taut direction make '3:10' a lean, muscular westernSep 06, 2007 11:00 pm - The American western has experienced more comebacks than Madonna, and James Mangold's return-to-basics horse opera "3:10 to Yuma" proves that it deserves to stay around ...