Dann Gire
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Better than ‘Nun’: ‘Omen’ a watchable, sometimes silly political allegoryApr 04, 2024 11:28 am - Aside from an adequate supply of gross commercial elements, the Catholic horror tale “The First Omen” issues an allegorical warning about our current political climate.
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‘Wicked Little Letters’ achieves an all-time high of Low ComedyApr 03, 2024 10:56 am - Thea Sharrock’s bawdy “Wicked Little Letters,” starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, brilliantly tells the fact-based story of a friendship gone sour and an epidemic of poison-pen letters that became a public scandal in a quiet English village during the 1920s.
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Monster mishmash: Godzilla reverts to a less scary, pinker version in hodgepodge action sequel ‘x’Mar 28, 2024 11:00 am - In Adam Wingard’s “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” the beast with fiery halitosis reverts to the quasi-heroic, less fearsome persona from “Godzilla vs. King Kong.” Both movies feature a hodgepodge of sci-fi expository technobabble, strange mysticism, convoluted mythologies and strained replications of human emotions.
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A no-Gozer: New ‘Ghostbusters’ sequel a frosty ghost of its 1984 originalMar 20, 2024 6:18 pm - Once again, the new, nostalgic “Ghostbusters” sequel “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” can’t match the wit, breezy fun and fresh imagination of the inspired original, co-written by Chicago’s Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd.
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‘Arthur the King’ blends canine-movie, sports-movie cliches to counter dumbed-down dialogueMar 13, 2024 2:00 pm - “Arthur the King” opens by crosscutting between its two main characters: Professional athlete Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) and a scruffy dog named Arthur. Both possess advanced survival skills. And both teach each other resilience.
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Oscars 2024: Film critic Dann Gire predicts who will win and who should winMar 05, 2024 6:13 am - Christopher Nolan’s historical epic “Oppenheimer” will dust the competition during the 96th Academy Awards, film critic Dann Gire says. See if he’s correct when the Oscars air live at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 10, on ABC.
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‘Madame’ a Marvel mess, but it looks prettyFeb 13, 2024 12:36 pm - Toss together some inadvertently ludicrous situations, a sophomoric, overwritten screenplay and eye-rolling chase scenes and you get a curiously sedate Dakota Johnson starring in 50 shades of nay in “Madame Web.”
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Tepid scares, distanced characters water down horrors of ‘Night Swim’Jan 04, 2024 3:34 pm - Director/writer Bryce McGuire contributes a tepid disappointment to the “there’s something in the water” horror genre with “Night Swim,” a plodding, suspense-starved fami...
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Top 10 movies of 2023 a mixed bag of genresDec 28, 2023 9:29 am - To no one’s surprise, 2023 will go down as the year of “Barbenheimer,” the cleverly cute portmanteau that mashes together “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” the titles of two p...
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Duck! Look out for the opulent, animated epic family adventure ‘Migration’Dec 21, 2023 11:35 am - “Migration” - 3.5 stars I grew up watching generations of Mallard ducks living on a pond outside the front door of my rural route home, one reason why this animated...