Dann Gire
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'Goodbye Christopher Robin' reveals bleak back story of Winnie-the-PoohOct 19, 2017 6:00 am - "Goodbye Christopher Robin" - ★ ★ ½ Dark revelations about the origins of pop culture icons must be hot this month. Last week, "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" ...
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'Only the Brave' makes firefighters real stars of fact-based dramaOct 18, 2017 11:00 am - “Only the Brave” - ★ ★ ★ Miles Teller, star of last year's “War Dogs” and “Bleed for This,” has already drawn comparisons to the late Hollywood icon Robert Mitchum. Now,...
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'The Jam' host wants 'to be like the millennial Barbara Walters'Oct 17, 2017 5:30 am - Danielle Robay spent years interviewing A-list celebrities on Hollywood red carpets, and going to parties alongside stars such as George Clooney. But she's just as c...
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Critic Dann Gire & Raymond come down with dystopiaOct 12, 2017 2:00 pm - Join me and film historian/novelist Raymond Benson when Dann and Raymond's Movie Club presents “Bleak Peek: The Great Dystopian Movies” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, a...
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Tivoli Theatre features student film winners, 'MacBeth'Oct 12, 2017 2:00 pm - Winning entries in the After Hours Film Society's 15th annual Student Film Festival will be screened at 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 16, at the Tivoli Theatre, 5021 Highland A...
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Chicago International Film Fest rolls out red carpet 53rd timeOct 12, 2017 11:00 am - The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival opens Thursday, Oct. 12, with the Midwest premiere of Reginald Hudlin's "Marshall," chronicling future U.S. Supreme Court Ju...
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Wonder Woman's racy origins explored in smart 'Professor Marston'Oct 12, 2017 6:00 am - “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” - ★ ★ ★ ½ That Wonder Woman got her start in comic books accused of peddling sexual perversity shouldn't come as a complete surp...
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'Death' director John D. Hancock scared himself writing movieOct 12, 2017 6:00 am - “Let's Scare Jessica to Death,” cited as one of the 100 all-time scariest movies by the Chicago Film Critics Association, will be shown as part of “The Massacre,” 24 hou...
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Chadwick Boseman's 'Marshall' takes on racism in fiery courtroom dramaOct 11, 2017 6:00 am - “Marshall” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “Marshall” avoids the conventional biopic approach of covering the complete life arc of its main character, Thurgood Marshall, the first African-Ame...
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Jim Gaffigan on growing up in the suburbs, eating Hackney's onion loafOct 10, 2017 5:30 am - When comedian Jim Gaffigan thinks back to his childhood years in Elgin and Barrington, his thoughts immediately turn to one thing. It's not his years at Barrington's Ros...