Dann Gire
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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...
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Pena, Shepard take 'CHiPs' off the TV blockMar 24, 2017 6:00 am - Pena, Shepard let the 'CHiPs' fall Actor/director/writer Dax Shepard and Chicago actor Michael Pena breezed into the Windy City earlier this month to promote their new c...
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'CHiPs' are down: Ponch goes raunch in R-rated revampMar 23, 2017 12:00 pm - What we get with "CHiPs" - Dax Shepard's randy, R-rated take on the blandly inoffensive 1977 NBC TV series - is the sort of lowbrow action comedy usually released in the...
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Supernatural 'Dig Two Graves' a stylish gothic film set in Southern IllinoisMar 23, 2017 6:00 am - If the young Coen brothers had been turned loose in Southern Illinois to create an ultra-low-budget, 1970s supernatural horror tale reeking of EC Comics vibes, it might ...