Dann Gire
-
How Highland Park native went from 'movie-crazy kid' to 'Menashe' producerAug 14, 2017 5:38 am - While studying movies at Highland Park High School, Alex Lipschultz realized his taste in cinema already veered more toward the eccentric and less toward the mainstream....
-
Gory medieval drama puts the 'grim' in 'Pilgrimage'Aug 11, 2017 6:00 am - At the start of Brendan Muldowney's blood-soaked Irish religious drama "Pilgrimage," disbelievers in 55 A.D. stone to death a Christian martyr with such accurate headsho...
-
Conant High grad channels Doc Brown for rap parody 'I (Heart) Juliet'Aug 10, 2017 6:00 am - Elk Grove Village actor and voice-over artist Joe Bianco, 29, had never seen all of Robert Zemeckis' “Back to the Future” trilogy. Then the Conant High School grad won t...
-
'Whose Streets?' documentary revisits Ferguson riots with social media journalismAug 10, 2017 6:00 am - A single tweet runs across the screen near the beginning of the documentary "Whose Streets?" "I just saw someone die" On Aug. 9, 2014, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguso...
-
Murder mystery 'Wind River' a thoughtful, less-exciting police proceduralAug 10, 2017 6:00 am - Don't expect "Wind River" to pack the crackling tension and startling revelations of "Sicario," or even the intellectual clash of wills of "Hell or High Water." All thre...
-
Harrelson's erratic father figure highlights transparent 'Glass Castle'Aug 09, 2017 10:00 am - In the biographical drama "The Glass Castle," Jeannette Walls' father Rex says he'll build his family's dream home, a glass castle, a long way from cities so everyone ca...
-
Director: Hope is the real star of 'Step' documentaryAug 05, 2017 7:25 am - In 2009, producer/director Amanda Lipitz began shooting footage for what would become an extraordinary documentary, "Step," which opened at theaters this weekend. (Read ...
-
Superb high school documentary takes 'Step' toward understandingAug 03, 2017 6:00 am - They called themselves the Lethal Ladies of BLSYW, aka the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, a Baltimore charter startup with the preposterously optimistic go...
-
'Step' filmmakers concur: arts are 'super-important'Aug 03, 2017 6:00 am - Arts 'Step' into limelight for educators Filmmaker and Broadway producer Amanda Lipitz has invested nine years directing and producing the excellent documentary "Step," ...
-
Snipes, Gene Simmons suffer dumb sci-fi 'Armed Response'Aug 03, 2017 6:00 am - Popular actor Wesley Snipes produced and starring in an ambitious but underwhelmingly silly flying saucer invasion thriller, "The Recall," unleashed upon the Northwest s...