Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Step Up

  Anne Fletcher

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  It’s Flashdance meets Fame in a fight to the finish, though the audience is the one who takes most of the blows.Tyler (Channing Tatum) is a...

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  U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

  Mark Dornford-May

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  This is Bizet’s famed opera Carmen translated into Xhosa and performed in modern-day South African locations. Carmen (Pauline Malefane) is...

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  Monster House

  Gil Kenan

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  It’s a sad statement that even this CGI kid pic stands head and shoulders above the rest, but such are the times in which we live. As the t...

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  Peaceful Warrior

  Victor Salva

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  The residue of first-quarter camp item Running Scared has finally worn off. What, I wondered, could possibly take its place? Thankfully, Ho...

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  Lucid

  Sean Garrity

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  There’s nothing worse than when a movie pulls a switch and becomes a different movie mid-stream, especially when the new one is considerabl...

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  Only Human

  Teresa de Pelegri and Dominic Harari

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Shame is an alien emotion to the directors of Only Human. Only the pair of Teresa de Peligri and Dominic Harari would have the stones to se...

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  The Heart of the Game

  Ward Serrill

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  My eyes usually roll at the thought of an inspirational sports movie, but The Heart of the Game takes less for granted than most in the gen...

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  Who Killed the Electric Car?

  Chris Paine

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  One wishes that this documentary would put a stop to its cutesy visuals and twinky music; otherwise, it’s a reasonably informative muckrake...