Dann Gire
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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...
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'Adderall Diaries' a look at broken memories, perceptionsApr 14, 2016 5:00 am - "The Adderall Diaries" starts as a drama about a bad case of writer's block before it morphs into an essay on the unreliable nature of memory and perception, then become...
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A dinner 'Invitation'? What could go wrong?Apr 14, 2016 5:00 am - Karyn Kusama's taut "The Invitation" is smarter than your standard reunion dinner tale gone horribly awry. It plants all the clues right out in the open - including a fo...
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Edgy performances draw empathy in New Zealand drama 'Dark Horse'Apr 14, 2016 5:00 am - Roger Ebert once referred to the movies as "empathy machines," and no film illustrates this better than James Napier Robinson's universally appealing, fact-based New Zea...
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Reel life: Why don't black heroes matter in movies?Apr 14, 2016 5:00 am - Did you know that if writer/actor/director Don Cheadle hadn't fabricated a white colead for his new Miles Davis biopic "Miles Ahead" no movie studio would back it? "Unti...
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Superficial brain transplant thriller proves truly 'Criminal'Apr 14, 2016 5:00 am - "You only have half a brain!" a CIA boss screeches at sociopathic killer Jerico Stewart. Gee, that would make him the smartest man in "Criminal," a cornball thriller tha...
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Elgin bodybuilder competes on 'American Grit'Apr 11, 2016 11:00 pm - Rappel down a slippery mountain canyon? Run 5.2 miles while carrying a heavy log with three other people through an obstacle-filled course? Take on survival challenges d...
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Disney remounts 'Jungle Book' with magical mix of CGI, live-actionApr 11, 2016 11:00 pm - Jon Favreau's wowie-pazzowie, eye-popping “Jungle Book” is an exhilarating motion picture experience that kerplops us into a Campbellian adventure in the middle of an au...