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Music and chemistry take on corny contrivances in crazy rom-com 'Marry Me'

By Dann Gire
Feb 11, 2022 11:58 AM - "Marry Me" stars Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson share undeniable chemistry. And they need it to counteract the plot of this comically flatlined rom-com, says Film Critic Dann Gire.
Spurned lovers plot nutty revenge in risky, frisky 'I Want You Back'

By Dann Gire
Feb 11, 2022 11:55 AM - Just when we need a snappy, funny relationship movie that playfully stretches the boundaries of traditional rom-coms, Amazon Prime Video gives us "I Want You Back," a shrewdly observed study of thirtysomethings rebounding from "being dumped."
Top 10 movies: Film critic Dann Gire offers his favorites from 2021

By Dann Gire
Jan 2, 2022 9:22 AM - In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted critics just as much as it has film production and movie theaters. But film critic Dann Gire still managed to put together what he feels is a respectable representation of cinema's best offerings over the past year.
Bradley Cooper taps his dark side in Guillermo del Toro's deliciously dark 'Nightmare Alley'

By Dann Gire
Dec 16, 2021 6:00 AM - If you took a sleazy, exploitative E.C. Comics tale, made it into a motion picture with top acting talent and A-list craftsmanship in production design and costumes, you'd get something close to Guillermo del Toro's horrific, moral parable "Nightmare Alley."
Steven Spielberg's first musical a bold, fresh, spectacular take on the 1961 classic 'West Side Story'

By Dann Gire
Dec 9, 2021 11:28 AM - The master has remastered a masterpiece! Filmmaker Steven Spielberg offers a joyously bold and revisionist take on the beloved 1961 musical classic "West Side Story."
Disney's 'Encanto' an explosively colorful, Mirandized musical family fantasy

By Dann Gire
Nov 26, 2021 8:11 AM - Disney's "Encanto" would appear to be an ideal follow-up to "Frozen," but it actually owes more to the earlier superpowered family fantasy "The Incredibles."
Nostalgia trumps originality in ghost-flustered 'Afterlife'

By Dann Gire
Nov 19, 2021 11:00 AM - A lack of mystery and awe haunts Jason Reitman's "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," which follows Egon Spengler's grandkids discovering their connection to the original Ghostbusters.
Pluck of the Irish: Kenneth Branagh's 'Belfast' an insightful, delightful domestic drama

By Dann Gire
Nov 11, 2021 11:20 AM - Writer/director Kenneth Branagh's most jubilantly personal movie yet, "Belfast" begins as a classic horror film and ends where a classic immigrants drama would normally start.
Do horror movies have value? 13 horror fantasies that will open your mind this Halloween

By Dann Gire
Oct 29, 2021 12:40 PM - Horror movies have been popular ever since the dawn of cinema. But of what value can they possibly be? "Movies are society's dreams," director Wes Craven once told film critic Dann Gire. "Horror films are a legitimate part of our psyches."
Style, substance at heart of infectiously cinematic, sensational shocker 'Last Night in Soho'

By Dann Gire
Oct 28, 2021 6:09 AM - The less you know about Edgar Wright's "Last Night in Soho," the gleeful, supercharged masterpiece of movie manipulation starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy, the better.

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