Dann Gire
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Zach Braff directs a breezier, geezier remake of comedy 'Going in Style'Apr 06, 2017 12:00 pm - In Martin Brest's 1979 original “Going in Style,” George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg played senior citizens on welfare who decide to improve their financial stat...
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Sensory-friendly 'Smurfs' screening among upcoming movie eventsApr 06, 2017 6:00 am - 'Smurfs' for special needs audiences The lights go up, the sound goes down, and kids are free to wander around. The Paragon Theater at 53 S. Evergreen Ave., Arlington He...
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'Beast' star Dan Stevens dominates stylish morality tale 'The Ticket'Apr 06, 2017 6:00 am - “Beauty and the Beast” star Dan Stevens (he plays the Beast) supplies Ido Fluk's problematic, but courageously experimental morality play “The Ticket” with one of the ye...
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Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub trade long speeches in failing 'Assignment'Apr 06, 2017 6:00 am - The seamy characters in Walter Hill's cracked-out crazy, low-budget, neo-noiry thriller "The Assignment" don't share conversations. They exchange protracted expository s...
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Former Inverness man makes magic for 'Smurfs,' moviesApr 04, 2017 5:20 am - When Tom Bruno Jr. lived in Inverness, he and his friends would drive around the Northwest suburbs with a video camera and ask strangers to create public television prom...
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Inverness filmmaker is no fan of Michael BayApr 04, 2017 5:00 am - Former Inverness resident Tom Bruno Jr. says he usually enjoys working on movies with the many people he meets. But not that guy. “Michael Bay, that guy!” Bruno said. “...
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'Case For Christ' brings Arlington Heights' Lee Strobel homeMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - 'Case For Christ' brings Strobel home Writer and lecturer Lee Strobel - former Daily Herald metro editor, Chicago Tribune legal affairs editor and a staff member at Will...
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Buffalo Grove grad leads cast in Indian immigration dramedyMar 30, 2017 6:00 am - No recent film illustrates the late Roger Ebert's assertion that movies are "empathy machines" better than Rucha Humnabadkar's presciently salient English/Hindi comic dr...
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Filmmakers try too hard in retro-slasher tale 'Blackcoat's Daughter'Mar 29, 2017 6:00 am - I don't know what foley artists did to create the sound of a knife penetrating living flesh in Osgood Perkins' horror tale "The Blackcoat's Daughter," but its aural icki...
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How a Downers Grove filmmaker turned being robbed into a 'success story'Mar 28, 2017 5:33 am - The first time Downers Grove filmmaker Matthew Aaron tried to take Los Angeles by storm, he nearly got blown away. He lived in his car for two months. One night while he...