Dann Gire
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'Dog Lover' - cheesy drama or propaganda?Jul 07, 2016 5:30 am - So this is how idealism dies. Not with thunderous applause as liberty did in "Revenge of the Sith," but with a court case, destroyed lives, a betrayed cause and a young ...
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'Aliens,' 'Dark Horse' screenings set for suburbsJul 07, 2016 5:30 am - A horse doc with heart Sometimes, it's healthy and necessary to have our faith in fellow humans reaffirmed, just as Louise Osmond's veddy British documentary "Dark Horse...
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Uproariously raunchy, funny 'Mike and Dave' don't know when to say whenJul 06, 2016 11:00 am - In the gross, R-rated bromantic comedy "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates," the jokes are rude, crude, lewd and nude. When they hit our collective funny bone, they hit ha...
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How luck, grit and a Texas highway launched Fremd grad Christina Moore's Hollywood careerJul 05, 2016 5:00 am - Oh, sure. It could happen that a struggling young actress from the Northwest suburbs moves to Hollywood and instantly gets offered all sorts of TV and movie jobs. "But I...
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'Swiss Army Man' filmmakers on humor's 'lowest common denominator'Jul 01, 2016 5:00 am - This could be the gassiest week of the millennium where the movies are concerned. Take Steven Spielberg's "The BFG." One of its major scenes, certainly the funniest, dep...
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''Purge' the urge to ignore scary political horror filmJun 30, 2016 5:30 am - Can a scarifying, ugly and depraved political horror tale be a guilty pleasure if I experience no guilt enjoying its riotously exploitative B-movie influences and tactic...
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'Swiss Army Man' a flamboyantly absurdist comedyJun 30, 2016 5:15 am - The not-quite surrealistic and flamboyantly absurdist "Swiss Army Man" either grabs you and works on its own weird level, or it doesn't. But it surely represents a coura...
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New 'Tarzan' swings as relationship drama, adventureJun 29, 2016 8:00 am - It's a romance, a bromance, a show-mance and a go-go-go-mance. Just when you thought we didn't need another adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' king of the jungle, ...
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Steven Spielberg directs talky, likable 'BFG'Jun 28, 2016 2:00 pm - It begins as the most scrumdiddlyumptious story, then slowly turns into one heck of a whizzpopper. Steven Spielberg's "The BFG," based on Roald Dahl's classic kiddles' b...
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'Neon Demon' director says he's 'addicted' to darknessJun 24, 2016 6:00 am - At Chicago's Waldorf Astoria Hotel Monday, I asked polarizing Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn - director of such edgy works as "Only God Forgives," "Bronson" and "...