Dann Gire
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Stars make compelling 'Case for Christ' based on life of Arlington Heights nativeApr 07, 2017 4:00 pm - Look in the background of many scenes in Jon Gunn's faith-based drama “The Case for Christ” and you will see a bright, white light streaming in from the windows. It's in...
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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...