Dann Gire
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Half-baked comedy 'Dough' fails to riseApr 28, 2016 5:15 am - The title "Dough" offers a double meaning in John Goldschmidt's stylistically unstable culture-clash comedy about an old-school Jewish baker, curmudgeonly widower Nat Da...
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Insipid, tasteless 'Mother's Day' comedy a waste of talentApr 28, 2016 5:15 am - Warning: Side effects of watching Garry Marshall's "Mother's Day" may include, but are not limited to, symptoms similar to an overdose of artificial sweeteners. I can't ...
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Reel life: 'Meddler' creator talks truth, mom and griefApr 28, 2016 5:00 am - Actress, writer, director Lorene Scafaria, 37, is best known for her bitey adapted screenplay to “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.” In 2012, Scafaria, Lemont native Dia...
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'Papa' not a novel approach to Hemingway or his workApr 28, 2016 5:00 am - Bob Yari's "Papa: Hemingway in Cuba" is the first Hollywood movie to be shot in Cuba since its 1959 revolution, It's such an emotionally vacant and sterile work of drama...
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'Meddler' a comic drama full of AARPish joyApr 27, 2016 11:15 am - Marnie Minervini is a champion meddler. She can really put the pedal to the meddle. She calls her poor TV writer daughter Lori almost hourly, leaving a trail of phone me...
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Arlington Heights native produces laughs for James Corden, Jimmy KimmelApr 25, 2016 1:00 am - You've got two hours to find a snowblower. In Los Angeles. And it needs to hold a life-size cutout of Kim Kardashian. Next, you have to persuade a woman on Hollywood Bo...
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Reel life: 'Merchants of Doubt' screening, discussion at MetropolisApr 21, 2016 5:00 am - Critics notebook: • The League of Women Voters will sponsor a showing of one of the most important journalism documentaries of the 21st century so far, “Merchants o...
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'Green Room' a well-crafted horror tale of dull charactersApr 21, 2016 5:00 am - The way that Jeremy Saulnier's technically well-crafted horror tale "Green Room" has been marketed, you'd think Patrick Stewart's neo-Nazi entrepreneur would be an iconi...
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'Sing Street' a musical fantasy of infectious joy, 1980s nostalgiaApr 21, 2016 5:00 am - If Oscar-winning musician John Carney ever contemporized those old MGM "let's put on a show" musicals starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney ... Oh, wait. He just did. ...
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St. Charles actor finds 'Love' on NetflixApr 18, 2016 1:00 am - Second City alumnus and St. Charles native Chris Witaske auditioned for three parts on Judd Apatow's new Netflix series "Love," but he wasn't quite right for any of them...