Dann Gire
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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 ...
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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...
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'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," ...
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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...
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Halle Berry's mad mama cranks up dumbed-down abduction thriller 'Kidnap'Aug 03, 2017 6:00 am - Two of the year's finest film performances can be found in the child abduction thriller "Kidnap." They belong to Halle Berry's eyes. Cinematographer Flavio Martínez Labi...
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'Inconvenient Sequel' directors describe Al Gore as 'Energizer Bunny'Aug 03, 2017 1:00 am - Daily Herald Film Critic dgire@dailyherald.com Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen met at Stanford University, married and became accomplished documentary filmmakers. They're the ...
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Visual effects-stuffed 'Dark' no dramatic tower of powerAug 02, 2017 11:00 pm - "The Dark Tower," based on Stephen King's eight-book saga pitting a wild west gunslinger against what appears to be a demonic, not-so-good Johnny Cash impersonator, didn...
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'Inconvenient Sequel' not as hot as Oscar-winning original docAug 02, 2017 8:00 am - Maybe it's just me, but could there be just a slight bit of nah-nah-nah-boo-boo-told-you-so attitude riffing off Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”? Gore...
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Playing dead in 'Neon Demon' gave IMSA grad her biggest role yetAug 01, 2017 5:30 am - “I like to think I'm the best dead girl in Hollywood,” Cody Renee Cameron said. She could be right. In Nicolas Winding Refn's controversial 2016 horror film “The Neon De...
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Charlize Theron kills it as sleek assassin in action-packed 'Atomic Blonde'Jul 27, 2017 6:00 am - "Atomic Blonde" may be confusing, empty and disappointing, but when sleek and sinewy British MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton goes DEFCON-1 on the bad guys, boredom dies fir...