Dann Gire
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'Only Living Boy' a pretentious, emotionally barren coming-of-age dramaAug 18, 2017 6:00 am - If you can't tell that men wrote and directed the pretentiously literary, emotionally barren, coming-of-age drama "The Only Living Boy in New York," here are some clues:...
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South Elgin High School students win top honors at Teen Film FestivalAug 17, 2017 6:00 am - Congratulations to South Elgin High School students Jeevan Acharya and Kevin Czasca for winning the Best Overall Film Award at the 11th annual Teen Film Festival, sponso...
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Comically brutal 'Hitman's Bodyguard' caters to low expectations, no moreAug 17, 2017 6:00 am - In the comically brutal buddy action road movie "The Hitman's Bodyguard," Ryan Reynolds' professional bodyguard tells Samuel L. Jackson's professional assassin that he h...
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Soderbergh directs superfun Southern heist comedy 'Logan Lucky'Aug 15, 2017 11:00 pm - One of the many joys in Steven Soderbergh's breakneck-speed, Red-State-seeded heist comedy “Logan Lucky” has to be Daniel Craig's overt nod to 007's muscled, white-haire...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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'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...
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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...
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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...