Dann Gire
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Movie review: 'Life Itself' a tearfully contrived soap operaSep 20, 2018 6:00 am - "Life Itself" - ★ ★ If Quentin Tarantino wanted to direct a schmaltzy soap opera, he might have made "Life Itself," but without the shameless sentiment and with a beefe...
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Movie review: Kids' comic horror tale 'House' is derivative and suspenseless, but safeSep 19, 2018 12:00 pm - “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” - ★ ★ ½ Eli Roth's “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” works well enough as a comic horror tale for youngsters. Instead of red bl...
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Movie review: Nicolas Cage achieves Grand Guignol greatness in hallucinogenic 'Mandy'Sep 13, 2018 11:00 am - "Mandy" - ★ ★ ★ Oh, "Mandy." Well, she came and she gave without taking. And the cult crazies took her away. Now, Mandy's lover, lumberjack Red Miller, embarks on a biz...
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Movie review: Laughs and gross-outs top scares in latest 'Predator' sequelSep 13, 2018 7:30 am - “The Predator” - ★ ★ ½ Parts of “The Predator” veer toward a robust, self-aware genre comedy. Other parts strive for some serious science-fiction thrills wrapped around...
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Movie review: It's not worth going down to 'The Basement'Sep 13, 2018 6:00 am - "The Basement" - ★ "The Basement" sounds an awful lot like "debasement," and after a blow-torch-wielding maniac approaches a screaming woman wearing a flimsy bra, looks...
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7 films that have Dann Gire looking forward to fallSep 07, 2018 6:00 am - Just curious, but does anyone really want to see a sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic “Halloween” in which mad slasher Michael Meyers now qualifies for an AA...
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Movie review: John Cho looks for his missing daughter in smart 'Searching'Aug 30, 2018 6:00 am - "Searching" - ★ ★ ★ I predict that theaters being used as giant computer screens with rapid-fire "dialogue" boxes that spit out perfectly spelled words will become as c...
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Movie review: Ben Kingsley gives chilling performance in disappointing 'Operation Finale'Aug 27, 2018 11:00 pm - “Operation Finale” — ★ ★ ½ Talk about the banality of evil. Chris Weitz's fact-based, post-World War II wannabe thriller “Operation Finale” exemplifies the banality...
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Filmmaker Steve James tackles thorny issue of race in suburban schoolAug 25, 2018 1:00 am - When you see a Steve James documentary, you often come away with a sense of that ethereally elusive entity called understanding. That happened with his critically acclai...
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Glenn Close gives Oscar-worthy performance in well-wrought 'The Wife'Aug 24, 2018 6:00 am - “The Wife” - ★ ★ ★ ½ I am grateful to have seen Bjorn Runge's “The Wife” through the eyes of a longtime marriage veteran (43 years) rather than through those of a curio...