Dann Gire
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'Zootopia' charms with sweet message, arresting visualsMar 02, 2016 5:30 pm - Cats and dogs living together? Without the mass hysteria predicted by Bill Murray in "Ghostbusters"? Yes. In Walt Disney's dazzling, sharply prescient animated comedy "Z...
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'Zootopia' animator from Barrington shaped four charactersMar 01, 2016 4:00 am - As a kid growing up in Barrington, Nathan Engelhardt went crazy for cartoons. He loved Looney Tunes, Warner Bros. cartoons and Disney animated features. But he never tho...
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Oscars: DiCaprio finally wins, 'Spotlight' takes best pictureFeb 28, 2016 12:00 am - Finally, he really is “King of the World!” Leonardo DiCaprio won his first best actor Oscar Sunday night in Hollywood in “The Revenant,” which was favored to win best pi...
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Dann Gire predicts Sunday's Oscar winnersFeb 25, 2016 10:00 pm - Let's get right to the most confounding, hair-pulling, anybody's guess, head-scratching, anything-goes Oscar category of the year: Best Picture. Nine times out of the la...
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Reel life: Former Hoffman Estates actor on the big screen this weekendFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - Film critics notebook: • Actor and former Hoffman Estates resident Jeff Glover can be seen as a police officer in the crime thriller “Triple 9” opening this weekend...
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'A War' puts the madness in a gray areaFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - Danish army commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbaek), the protagonist in Tobias Lindholm's courtroom drama "A War," should have requested a competent trial attorney. "A W...
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Flawed 'Jack' has an obviously genuine heartFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - The autism-themed drama "Jack of the Red Hearts" has a big heart and the best of intentions. But its story builds upon the shaky and not completely convincing premise th...
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'Eddie' likable but cliched sports underdog comedyFeb 24, 2016 9:00 am - "You don't give up, do you?" says former ski jumper Bronson Peary to wannabe Olympic ski jumper Michael "Eddie" Edwards. No, he doesn't. Neither does Dexter Fletcher's o...
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'Risen' a daring, contemporary look at a biblical storyFeb 18, 2016 4:00 pm - One of the benefits of hanging out with Jesus during the days after his resurrection was, apparently, having perfect teeth. Pearly white, perfectly formed, impeccably cl...
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Stephan James soars as Olympian Jesse Owens in 'Race'Feb 18, 2016 10:00 am - At a pivotal moment in Stephen Hopkins' galvanizing biographical sports drama "Race," American athlete Jesse Owens - impressively embodied both physically and spirituall...