Dann Gire
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McCarthy to be hailed as Comedic Genius at MTV Movie AwardsApr 07, 2016 5:00 am - Film critics notebook: • Plainfield native Melissa McCarthy will receive the Comedic Genius Award at the MTV Movie Awards, starting at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 10, f...
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Don Cheadle aims to entertain with Miles Davis' biopicApr 07, 2016 5:00 am - The talented Don Cheadle not only stars in this wild and impressionistic biography of jazz musician/composer Miles Davis - easily one of the most influential and origina...
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Christopher Plummer smooths out speed bumps in 'Remember'Apr 07, 2016 5:00 am - It would be a mistake to think of Atom Egoyan's Nazi-hunter movie "Remember" as a serious Holocaust drama. "Remember" takes the Holocaust about as seriously as did Laure...
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Jake Gyllenhaal gives explosive performance in confusing 'Demolition'Apr 07, 2016 5:00 am - At the beginning of Jean-Marc Vallée's drama "Demolition," Jake Gyllenhaal survives a car crash that kills his wife, then he spends the rest of the movie trying to avoid...
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McCarthy earns big laughs in low-brow 'Boss'Apr 05, 2016 11:00 pm - In Melissa McCarthy's “The Boss,” two rival groups of young, cookie-selling Girl Scouts types take to a Chicago street to engage in a brutal WWE-style rumble captured in...
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Fremd grad's film captures mood on 9/12Apr 04, 2016 11:00 pm - Given the nation's current political climate, it's hard to remember the unity and kindness Americans felt for each other after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. F...
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Suburban natives team up to save theaterMar 31, 2016 5:00 am - Earl Halbe was born and raised in Aurora and graduated from East Aurora High School before earning a theater arts degree at downstate Eastern Illinois University in 1979...
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Strong performances highlight formulaic Hank Williams biopicMar 30, 2016 11:00 am - Hank Williams became a country/western supernova during his 20s by distilling the human experiences of love, lust, betrayal and rejection down to lyrics evoking their ra...
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Recalling Patty Duke's visits to Des Plaines, St. CharlesMar 28, 2016 11:00 pm - In 2011 before her visit to St. Charles, I asked actress Patty Duke if she ever thought about death. "Oh, my God! Only every single day of my life!" she replied. "All th...
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'Hamilton' star got her start on Libertyville High stageMar 28, 2016 1:00 am - As a kid growing up in Libertyville, Phillipa Soo's stage was a coffee table in her family's living room. She'd stand on top of it wearing a pink tutu, singing Aretha Fr...