Dann Gire
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How Parvesh Cheena went from Naperville 'class clown' to 'Tiger Hunter' movieSep 19, 2017 5:00 am - Parvesh Cheena blames himself for the extra takes and time it took to shoot a bedroom scene with his fellow Indian actors during their new movie "The Tiger Hunter." The ...
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5 weird and creepy movie clowns with the 'IT' factorSep 14, 2017 6:00 am - Now that Bill Skarsgård's sinister demon clown Pennywise has made the horror film "IT" an instant box office smash ($123 million during its opening weekend), it's time f...
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Aronofsky's 'mother!' takes star Jennifer Lawrence on savage, surreal tripSep 13, 2017 1:30 pm - Normally, I avoid watching trailers and reading production notes prior to viewing a movie, but my curiosity won out on “mother!” especially after a Paramount Pictures fi...
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Mom of teen found dead in freezer: How did she unlock both double doors?Sep 11, 2017 1:00 am - The mother of Kenneka Jenkins questions whether the 19-year-old had the strength to open the heavy door of a walk-in freezer where she was found dead Sunday at a Rosemon...
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Boy's plea may have saved family from Gurnee explosion that killed 1Sep 09, 2017 1:00 am - Cool temperatures Friday afternoon persuaded Ludek Fohler and his family not to hang out on the backyard deck he'd finishing building last weekend. They went inside his ...
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Dann Gire goes ape over 1933's classic 'King Kong'Sep 07, 2017 6:00 am - CFCA to show the best planet of the ape film How tall did the actual gorilla in 1933's original classic monster movie “King Kong” stand? Why does this black-and-white, o...
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Bill Nighy sherlocks up serial killer caper 'Limehouse Golem'Sep 07, 2017 6:00 am - If "Love, Actually" rock star Bill Nighy would ever be cast in a Sherlock Holmes movie, he'd surely be the affably addled sidekick, Dr. Watson. Not after this movie. In ...
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Freakishly effective jump-scares fan fears in Stephen King's 'IT'Sep 06, 2017 12:00 pm - The preposterous premise behind the horror film “IT” would have us believe that an extremely old clown with orange hair spreads lies, chaos and confusion to feed off the...
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Dann Gire revisits 'Close Encounters' 40 years laterAug 31, 2017 6:00 am - 'Close Encounters' with a 40-year-old film Steven Spielberg's “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” came on the cinematic heels of “Star Wars” back in 1977 (when I worked...
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'I Do' doesn't: Capable comic cast encumbered by clumsy cuttingAug 30, 2017 11:00 am - “I Do ... Until I Don't” boasts a crackerjack cast of comic actors struggling to spin gold from the straw-dry dialogue of a lackadaisically edited, visually compromised,...