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No 'Ovation' for shallow kids musical that never should have been made
By Dann Gire - 07/16/10
"Standing Ovation" is a spiritually bankrupt, morally reckless, ethically unhinged and emotionally vacant musical comedy about a group of tweenies who can't act, sing or convincingly lip-sync. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/16/10
32 films, live concert launch inaugural Blue Whiskey film fest
By Dann Gire - 07/15/10
It's a new local film festival created by Fremd High School grad Michael Noens, and he intends for it to grow in popularity and become a major destination on the fest circuit. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/15/10
DiCaprio stars as a corporate raider in mind-bending 'Inception'
By Dann Gire - 07/15/10
I love this movie! Christopher Nolan's insanely imaginative and intelligently trippy "Inception" is "Mission Impossible" led by a corporate Freddy Krueger in a mind-bending adventure that could have been designed by artist M.C. Escher. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/15/10
'Sorcerer's Apprentice' can't conjure the magic
By Dann Gire - 07/14/10
Look, if you're making a feature film based on a classic Walt Disney animated short, the first obligation you have is to make your movie as good as the short. Right? FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/14/10
'Predators' falls prey to weak second half
By Dann Gire - 07/09/10
Fast-paced, taut with tension, stuffed with suspense and mystery, "Predators" is easily the best entry in 20th Century Fox's science-fiction alien-hunter action franchise. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/09/10
Stone's sabotages integrity in 'South of the Border'
By Dann Gire - 07/09/10
Director/host Oliver Stone's unbridled butt-kissing interview style sabotages whatever journalistic integrity his new political doc "South of the Border" might have had. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/09/10
Villain finds his softer side in comedic 'Despicable Me'
By Dann Gire - 07/08/10
Universal Pictures' "Despicable Me" fills the bill as a mildly diverting, whimsically entertaining 3-D computer-animated feature for kids. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/08/10
Stand up and fight for your very own 'Grease Sing-A-Long'
By Dann Gire - 07/01/10
"Grease Sing-A-Long" opens next Thursday exclusively at the River East 21 Theater in Chicago. But if Daily Herald readers go online and demand it, there could be a "Grease Sing-A-Long" right here in the suburbs. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/01/10
Lame dialogue, awkward acting drag down 'The Last Airbender'
By Dann Gire - 07/01/10
"The Last Airbender" blows. The main characters in this special-effects stuffed epic don't just bend air. They bend fire, water, earth, plus logic, humor, acting and storytelling so far they almost reach the breaking point. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire - 07/01/10
'Easy Rider?' 'Rocky?' An eclectic look at patriotic movies
By Dann Gire and Raymond Benson - 06/30/10
Raymond: Dann, it's nearly Fourth of July and we need to get all hot and patriotic. It's funny, when I look at lists of so-called "patriotic movies," most of them are war pictures. FULL STORY
By Dann Gire and Raymond Benson - 06/30/10
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