Dann Gire
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Latest Sparks' romance not exactly a 'Choice' movieFeb 04, 2016 4:00 pm - "Pay attention!" the voice-over narrator commands. "I'm going to tell you the secret of life," the voice promises. "Life is about ... choices!" OK, I fell for that one. ...
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Can 'Monday' still be a thriller if it lacks suspense?Feb 04, 2016 4:00 am - The psychological thriller “Monday At 11:01 A.M.” comes equipped with clunky, self-aware dialogue delivered in breathlessly ominous tones by off-kilter characters who se...
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Tatum, Clooney highlight Coen brothers' 'Hail, Caesar!'Feb 04, 2016 4:00 am - It's tappy, slappy, snappy and happy. That would be the Coen brothers' new movie "Hail, Caesar!," a winking, blinking, behind-the-scenes Hollywood studio farce with plen...
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Jane Austen meets the undead in film mashupFeb 04, 2016 4:00 am - As a "Saturday Night Live" skit or an elaborate 20-minute film short, Burr Steers' brutally restrained, remarkably faithful "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" might have ...
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10 winning football films to get you ready for SundayFeb 03, 2016 9:42 am - Look! Up in the airwaves! It's not a bird! It's not a plane! It's Super Bowl! In honor of Sunday's tackles and touchdowns, I'm passing 10 football movies to you. Catch t...
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Dann Gire's best filmmakers of 2016 - will Oscar voters agree?Feb 02, 2016 12:00 am - The best of 2016 films The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces its Oscar nominations on Jan. 24. In the meantime, here come my select best contribution...
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Third time a charmer for the animated 'Kung Fu' fantasiesJan 28, 2016 5:00 am - The last two animated comedies I've seen - "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip" and "Norm of the North" - served up such willful awfulness that I fear they might ha...
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'Son of Saul' makes the human cost of Nazis the focusJan 28, 2016 4:45 am - Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes' hard-hitting, gripping, gimmick drama - and it is a marvelously effective gimmick - uses a single 40 mm. lens to focus exclusively on t...
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Cheap jokes, hammy acting infest alien invasion comedy 'Lazer Team'Jan 28, 2016 4:00 am - The cheap and cheesy science-fiction comedy "Lazer Team" sets its intergalactic sights so lowbrow that its infantile humor and wide-eyed, hammy acting almost succeed as ...
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Slow-sailing 'Finest Hours' waterlogs fact-based sea survival taleJan 28, 2016 4:00 am - These "Hours" aren't the finest. Just the slowest. Walt Disney's "The Finest Hours," Craig Gillespie's fact-based 3-D survival tale about a daring 1952 U.S. Coast Guard ...