Dann Gire
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Stock characters, dumb dialogue tear down ' Great Wall'Feb 16, 2017 2:45 pm - Seldom in motion picture history has such stylish, visual bombast been forced to service such dumbed-down, subtly racist storytelling. We find out early in Chinese direc...
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Sparse laughs assail thin sketches in comedy 'Fist Fight'Feb 16, 2017 11:00 am - The insipid high school comedy “Fist Fight” celebrates and exploits the very ideas that it should be ridiculing for comic effect, such as childish, lying, self-centered ...
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Down to the wire with Oscars and Gire as Academy Awards loomFeb 16, 2017 5:00 am - Movie Club predicts the Oscars twice more How will Denzel Washington's recent SAG award impact Casey Affleck's chances of winning the Best Actor Oscar? Will media backla...
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Fact-based marriage drama 'United Kingdom' comes up short on passionFeb 15, 2017 10:30 am - Amma Asante's "A United Kingdom" tells the true story of Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, whose controversial marriage makes the political conflicts in 2016's mixed-race...
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Highland Park 'Fist Fight' filmmaker inspired by the late John HughesFeb 14, 2017 4:00 am - Put Richie Keen and Charlie Day together and they act like two high school kids who've skipped class. They're old pals who've worked together many times, mostly on the F...
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How your son could star in a Steven Spielberg movieFeb 10, 2017 12:00 am - A 6-to-9-year-old suburban boy could be the star of the next Steven Spielberg movie. Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment will host an open casting call for the titular role...
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Hard-boiled, surrealistic 'John Wick 2' a ballet of bulletsFeb 09, 2017 6:00 am - We'll get to all the stabbing, punching, chasing, choking, shooting, screaming, beating, kicking, shouting, running and bleeding in a moment. When you see "John Wick: Ch...
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'Adventure' sorely lacking in bland kid's fantasy filmFeb 09, 2017 5:00 am - “Adventure Club,” a tweenager Indiana Jones movie on an ultratight budget, begins with Todd Bryanton's pulsing, thrilling score promising something the rest of the film ...
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'Affair,' 'Casablanca' back on the big screen this weekFeb 09, 2017 5:00 am - Happy 60th anniversary, "An Affair to Remember." Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and the Empire State Building star in this romantic classic (it inspired "Sleepless in Seattle,...
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Smart insights, hilarious jokes give animated comedy 'Lego Batman Movie' a Bat-rocket boostFeb 07, 2017 10:00 am - The creators of "The Lego Batman Movie" could never have anticipated that their manic, animated kids' toy comedy would become the most prescient, overtly political movie...