Dann Gire
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'Love the Coopers' a holiday snow jobNov 12, 2015 4:15 am - The original title for this holiday family comedy had been "Let It Snow," a fitting one, considering that practically every scene is filled with big white flakes. Some o...
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Superb journalism film puts 'Spotlight' on abuseNov 10, 2015 4:45 pm - Since 1976, Alan J. Pakula's "All the President's Men" has ruled as the gold standard of journalism motion pictures. Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight" now owns that title. Both...
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Avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson calls Glen Ellyn upbringing idyllicNov 10, 2015 4:00 am - Laurie Anderson vividly remembers the night she almost drowned her two little brothers in a Glen Ellyn lake. In her new impressionistic movie "Heart of a Dog," opening F...
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Arlington Heights film event pushed backNov 09, 2015 12:00 am - Dann & Raymond's Movie Club presentation "How He Got into My Pajamas I'll Never Know: The Great Comedies, Part 1" has been moved to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at the A...
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Charming 'Peanuts' cracks jokes, not diversityNov 06, 2015 4:30 am - The 3-D, computer-animated "The Peanuts Movie" plays like a condensed "greatest hits" compilation of every familiar bit immortalized by Charles M. Schulz in his beloved ...
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Reel life: Revisit 'Goodfellas' at Elk Grove TheatreNov 05, 2015 5:45 am - Critics notebook: • The Chicago Film Critics Association presents Martin Scorsese's digitally remastered “Goodfellas” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Elk Grove T...
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What's 'Love' got to do with anything?Nov 05, 2015 5:15 am - It would be unfair to simply dismiss controversial Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noe's succinctly titled “Love” as a porn movie with a good budget and artistic lighting. St...
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'Smile Back' tracks powerful story of life on the edgeNov 05, 2015 4:30 am - What Adam Salky's "I Smile Back" lacks in insight and understanding about addiction, depression and self-destructive attitudes is partially compensated for by comedian S...
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Gire: 'SPECTRE' a blunted instrument for BondNov 02, 2015 10:00 pm - The head of the British secret service, M, once famously referred to agent 007 as "a blunt instrument." Consider "SPECTRE" a blunted one. Daniel Craig's fourth outing as...
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'Suffragette' offers strong performances, muddled taleOct 29, 2015 6:00 am - Director Sarah Gavron had a choice of protagonists for "Suffragette," her dramatically inert tribute to the early 20th century political movement pushing to give British...