Dann Gire
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Jane Fonda to accept prestigious Gold Hugo Award in ChicagoJul 20, 2017 6:00 am - During the 1980s, Hollywood legend Henry Fonda revealed in American Film magazine his measure for success as an actor. "It's not how good you are that counts," he said. ...
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Searing documentary 'City of Ghosts' honors Syria's citizen journalistsJul 20, 2017 6:00 am - American journalists think they've got it tough by being occasionally manhandled or denied press credentials at political gatherings. Meanwhile, the citizen journalists ...
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Christopher Nolan's well-crafted 'Dunkirk' an immersive, tempered World War II dramaJul 18, 2017 11:00 am - London-born Christopher Nolan - who grew up in Evanston - has never been a touchy-feely blockbuster filmmaker like Steven Spielberg. Nolan's fact-based, World War II dr...
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Suburban native designs Fender guitars for Clapton, other starsJul 18, 2017 5:33 am - When he walked into the recording session and handed Eric Clapton the Fender guitar he'd custom-designed for him, George Blanda apologized. The La Grange native and Fend...
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Dann Gire recalls talking zombies with filmmaker George RomeroJul 16, 2017 11:00 pm - Daily Herald Film Critic dgire@dailyherald.com Horror pioneer George Romero created the modern zombie movie with his 1968 renegade black-and-white classic "Night of the ...
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No ancient Chinese secret here: 'Wish Upon' is contrived and sillyJul 13, 2017 11:00 am - The most innovative component of the contrived and silly teenage horror movie "Wish Upon" turns out to be the insults high school girls hurl at each other. My favorite: ...
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Dad makes 'Ghost Story' filmmaker not afraid of no ghostsJul 13, 2017 6:00 am - Milwaukee-born filmmaker David Lowery's "A Ghost Story" locally premiered at the Chicago Critics Film Festival in May. It opens this weekend at Chicago's River East 21 a...
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'Misfortune' a neo-noir thriller of stark simplicityJul 13, 2017 6:00 am - An old-fashioned neo-noir thriller, "Misfortune" is a work of stark simplicity accompanied by a percussive, primal score taking up some considerable narrative slack. It ...
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Evanston High School grad spins romantic web for Spidey in 'Homecoming'Jul 11, 2017 5:30 am - Laura Harrier remembers the moment she received The Call. "I was in total shock!" the former Evanston resident said. "I had all these calls from my agent. When I called ...
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Spidey legacy a tangled web of superpowersJul 06, 2017 6:00 am - During a tense moment in Jon Watts' superhero reboot "Spider-Man: Homecoming," Peter Parker's high school bud Ned (Jacob Batalon) picks up one of Spider-Man's wristband ...