Dann Gire
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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...
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Dann Gire revisits 1982 interview with original 'Blade Runner' Harrison FordOct 06, 2017 11:00 am - Editor's note: The following is Film Critic Dann Gire's 1982 interview with original "Blade Runner" Harrison Ford and director Ridley Scott. It has been slightly edi...
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Dann Gire presents 'Great Horror Movies' at Palatine libraryOct 06, 2017 6:00 am - Just in time for Halloween! Dann & Raymond's Movie Club presents "Oh, the Horror! The Great Horror Movies, Part 1 - From the Silent Era to the 1950s." It's at 6:30 p.m. ...
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'Blade Runner' movie trailers should offer spoiler alerts, Dann saysOct 05, 2017 6:00 am - At Chicago press screenings for “Blade Runner 2049” last week, a Warner Bros. representative read a request from director Denis Villeneuve asking critics to preserve the...
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Liam Neeson's 'Mark Felt' commands underwhelming Watergate dramaOct 05, 2017 6:00 am - In the fact-based drama "Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House," Liam Neeson plays a powerful person with a particular set of skills. As second-in-command ...
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'Osiris Child' falls prey to phony-looking monsters, bad dialogueOct 05, 2017 6:00 am - It begins as a hard-bitten science-fiction survival epic with blood, beatings and marauding monsters. It ends as a weird homage to the children's book "Where the Wild Th...
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New 'Blade Runner' a mind-blowing replicant of original sci-fi classicOct 02, 2017 11:00 pm - “Blade Runner 2049” explodes on the silver screen as a stunning achievement, a sequel that does far more than merely recycle elements from Ridley Scott's 1982 original s...