Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

  Dennis Dugan

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

  I’d tell you that this Adam Sandler disgrace is at cross-purposes with itself but really it’s not: the film is totally at one with the idea...

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  Interview

  Steve Buscemi

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

  Dutch director Theo van Gogh was senselessly murdered before he could remake his film Interview in NYC. Thus it has been entrusted to Steve...

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  Cemetery Club

  Tali Shemesh

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

  There’s a lack of focus to this Israeli documentary that keeps it from getting top marks but its subject and material are so moving that yo...

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  Hairspray

  Adam Shankman

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

  It’s been so long since anybody made a decent musical that I was willing to overlook the failings of Hairspray, to a point. Based on John W...

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  Social Genocide

  Fernando Solanas

  PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2007

  I had feared, after reports of this film’s flirtation with political defeat, that the great Fernando Solanas had finally gone soft. Fat cha...

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  Vitus

  Fredi M. Murer

  PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2007

  At first, you think Vitus is going to be a dull and mediocre movie in the "misunderstood child genius” genre. Then a switch is thrown and t...

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  Introducing the Dwights

  Cherie Nowlan

  PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2007

  The woods are full of movies with the sons of castrating mothers saved by life-giving lovers. Thus it’s no surprise that Introducing the Dw...

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  The Astronaut Farmer

  Michael Polish

  PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2007

  The Astronaut Farmer takes the American myth of the rebel dreamer and turns it into something so syrupy that it’s almost impossible to bear...