Dann Gire
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'Doctor Strange' a magical mix of humor, action and surrealistic visualsOct 31, 2016 11:00 pm - Humorously quirky and visually spellbinding, “Doctor Strange” ranks as one of the best executed Marvel Comics movies, up there with “Iron Man,” “Spider-Man 2” and “The A...
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Cutting-edge drama 'Moonlight' pushes empathy, forgivenessOct 27, 2016 6:00 am - Barry Jenkins' character study "Moonlight" proves to be every bit as luminous, mysterious and elemental as its title. This extraordinary, cutting-edge drama affirms the ...
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Syrupy dialogue clogs big-hearted 'New Life'Oct 27, 2016 6:00 am - The hope-infused family drama "New Life" possesses a huge heart with its arteries seriously clogged by narrative cholesterol in the form of gooey voice-over narration. B...
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Cheap scares don't add up to thrills in tepid 'Unspoken'Oct 27, 2016 6:00 am - So far, Mike Flanagan's mediocre demon drama "Ouija: Origin of Evil" leads the weekend pack of mainstream Halloween movies, challenged only by the cheap (really cheap) j...
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Political doc 'Madigan' a compelling hit-pieceOct 26, 2016 6:00 am - A Texas media company produced "Madigan: Power. Privilege. Politics.," a one-hour documentary about Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan, because no Illinois product...
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Hot visuals, dense plot fuel Ron Howard's 'Inferno'Oct 25, 2016 11:00 pm - Maybe it's called "Inferno" because you can't always figure out what the H. E. Double-Hockey-Sticks is going on. If you thought Ron Howard's first two adventures based o...
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Eric Clapton's concerts designed in this St. Charles man's homeOct 25, 2016 5:00 am - If you've seen an Eric Clapton concert in the past 20 years, then you've seen the work of St. Charles resident Dave Maxwell. The 45-year-old Maxwell, a native of Ireland...
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Dann says enough of the 'waking from a nightmare' clicheOct 20, 2016 6:00 am - A real wake-up call Three times in Mike Flanagan's horror sequel "Ouija: Origin of Evil," characters wake up from bad dreams by bolting upright in bed like spring-l...
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'Romance' deathly dull and just plain ickyOct 20, 2016 6:00 am - The ironically titled "American Romance" belongs to a particularly cruel and nasty subgroup in the home invasion exploitation genre. Seeing it is something akin to watch...
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Well-timed jolts keep 'Ouija' from being just a bored gameOct 18, 2016 11:00 pm - Outside of "Tyler Perry's Boo!," we don't have many Halloween movies on the docket this month, and that puts a premium on the jumps, jolts and shocks effectively finesse...