Dann Gire
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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 "...
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'Free State of Jones' slogs through tale of Confederate revoltJun 23, 2016 6:00 am - In Gary Ross' longer-than-the-Civil-War Civil War epic “Free State of Jones,” Matthew McConaughey portrays Mississippi farmer Newton Knight, a Confederate-deserter-turne...
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'Neon Demon' a strange, stylish horror filmJun 23, 2016 6:00 am - In Nicolas Winding Refn's strange and stylized horror tale "The Neon Demon," bludgeoning metaphors become even deadlier than the jealous rivalries that ferment inside L....
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First acting, then teaching, and now 'This' for Western Springs nativeJun 21, 2016 5:00 am - Carl Menninger grew up in Western Springs, worked in Chicago theater for several years and never thought for a moment that one day he would write books, become a college...
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Johnson, Hart create comic fireworks in 'Central Intelligence'Jun 16, 2016 5:45 am - The emotional scars and false hopes of high school turn out to be the real stars of the buddy action comedy "Central Intelligence." Even though Rawson Marshall Thurber's...
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'De Palma' an insightful doc into a master filmmakerJun 16, 2016 5:15 am - The documentary "De Palma" runs a respectable 107 minutes, but I suspect if co-directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow had doubled the time, they could easily have fill...
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'Finding Dory' a fun if watered-down 'Nemo' sequelJun 14, 2016 11:45 am - Thirteen years ago in the critically lauded, box office smash "Finding Nemo," Ellen DeGeneres' forgetful blue tang fish Dory became an instantly beloved supporting chara...
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Aurora 12-year-old gives voice to Nemo in 'Finding Dory'Jun 14, 2016 1:00 am - Hayden Rolence stands triumphantly in a giant window at Chicago's The James Hotel, his arms outstretched as if to give the entire world a big hug. “I'm not going to stan...