Dann Gire
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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 ...
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Waukegan comedian gets raves thanks to Pachelbel and CarlinJan 26, 2016 4:03 am - George Carlin's opening act was stuck in an airport, so his manager's granddaughter suggested they call Waukegan native Rob Paravonian, the funny guy she saw on YouTube ...
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Gire: Minority quotas? How to fix Oscar's diversity problemJan 22, 2016 4:26 am - Old white guys have been running Hollywood and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since their inceptions. Now, like Claude Raines' police chief in "Casablan...
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'5th Wave' an accidentally comical alien invasion taleJan 21, 2016 9:45 am - The 1st Wave: Alien invaders disable all energy-powered machines by dispatching an electromagnetic pulse around the Earth. The 2nd Wave: Alien invaders cause tsunamis in...
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Charlotte Rampling the best thing about glum '45 Years'Jan 21, 2016 4:00 am - Andrew Haigh's restrained relationship drama "45 Years" stars Charlotte Rampling, a Soaring '60s icon who started with a Cadbury candy commercial before blasting to popu...
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Maggie Smith works her magic on flawed 'Lady'Jan 21, 2016 4:00 am - "The Lady in the Van" stars recent "Harry Potter" regular Maggie Smith in Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of Alan Bennett's 1999 black comedy based on "a mostly true story"...
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For Disney star from Wilmette, business comes first in showbizJan 18, 2016 12:00 am - "It's amazing how quickly you can go from not knowing what you want to do ... to instantly falling in love with something and knowing exactly what you want to do!" Kevin...
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Wilmette native to star in 'Adventures in Babysitting' remakeJan 18, 2016 12:00 am - Daily Herald Film Critic dgire@dailyherald.com In addition to playing Xander, the good-time Charlie character on the Disney Channel series "Bunk'd," Wilmette native Kevi...
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'Mustang' a metaphor for cultural obedience, familial oppressionJan 14, 2016 5:00 am - The title "Mustang" in Deniz Gamze Erguven's feminist drama undoubtedly refers to Lale (Gunes Sensoy), the youngest and most rebellious of five orphaned sisters whose in...
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Kids' polar bear comedy way below the 'Norm'Jan 14, 2016 5:00 am - We had to wait 12 months to see the dumbest and most superficial animated kid's comedy of 2015. In 2016, we only had to wait 15 days. Like last year's "Alvin and the Chi...