Dann Gire
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Artsy or safe? Dann Gire predicts 'Roma' will win Best Picture OscarFeb 20, 2019 9:00 am - Only one movie can possibly stop Alfonso Cuarón's “Roma” from making history by winning both the Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film Academy Awards Sunday night....
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Comic horror sequel 'Happy Death Day 2U' misses out on suspense, scaresFeb 13, 2019 5:00 am - “Happy Death Day 2U” - ★ ★ ½ If 2017's horror comedy “Happy Death Day” seemed like “Scream” meets “Groundhog Day” (as noted by every film critic on the planet), th...
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Movie review: Liam Neeson goes super vigilante - again - in blackly comic 'Cold Pursuit'Feb 07, 2019 5:00 am - "Cold Pursuit" - ★ ★ ½ You gotta appreciate a vigilante action thriller that ends with its cast members listed in the order of their "disappearance." Practically everybo...
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Peter Jackson documentary 'They Shall Not Grow Old' an epic World War I taleJan 30, 2019 10:00 am - “They Shall Not Grow Old” - ★ ★ ★ ★ Peter Jackson's revolutionary documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old” makes just as much history as it tells us about British sol...
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What's up with that? Oscar noms create umbrage, surprise and vexationsJan 21, 2019 10:00 pm - "Black Panther" becomes the first superhero movie to be nominated for a best picture Academy Award Tuesday, but not an single cast member receives an Oscar nod. What's u...
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Movie review: M. Night Shyamalan's 'Glass' fails to live up to provocative premiseJan 15, 2019 10:00 pm - “Glass” - ★ ★ The best part of M. Night Shyamalan's intermittently tedious, trilogy-topping tale “Glass” has to be its irresistibly provocative premise. Shyamalan merges...
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Movie review: 'Dog's Way Home' a heartwarming tale for kids and animal loversJan 10, 2019 10:00 am - “A Dog's Way Home” - ★ ★ ½ “A Dog's Way Home” possesses all the funny, cute and heartwarming moments you'd expect in a conventional canine movie. It's a gratifying adve...
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Evanston native advises TV show 'Project Blue Book' on his UFO expert dadJan 07, 2019 12:00 am - You can believe Paul Hynek when he says his bedroom in Evanston used to be the world's largest UFO library. His father, the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek, became Earth's most ...
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Fact-based 'Vice,' 'BlacKkKlansman,' 'First Man' land spots on top 10 movies of 2018Dec 27, 2018 5:00 am - Fact-based movies dominate my annual list of top 10 English-language, narrative films of the year. We begin with a movie that Monty Python might describe as “something c...
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Movie review: 'Vice' a bold, bonkers portrait of Dick Cheney as master manipulatorDec 23, 2018 12:00 am - "Vice" -- ★ ★ ★ ★ Every scene in Adam McKay's bold and bonkers biopic "Vice" radiates with the unbridled energy of an exuberant, experimental work-in-progress. After bri...