Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Madea's Family Reunion

  Tyler Perry

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Tyler Perry must be stopped. The multitasking director/writer/performer ranks up there as the most hypocritical, least aesthetic filmmaker...

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  Running Scared

  Wayne Kramer

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Mere words are inadequate for describing the spectacle of Running Scared. Its constant parade of racial slurs, rampant violence and sheer k...

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  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

  Tommy Lee Jones

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Picking out the message of this Cannes-winning screenplay isn't easy; it wants to punish racism while taking pains to avoid doing so. But t...

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  Doom

  Andrzej Bartkowiak

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  You could call Doom a "latter-day Aliens" without the humanising element of Sigourney Weaver. But it would be more accurate to note its lac...

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  Love Me Tender

  Robert D. Webb

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Boy (Richard Egan) meets girl (Debra Paget). Boy fights in the Confederate army. Boy loses Civil War and returns in defeat to find Girl mar...

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  Separate Lies

  Julian Fellowes

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  You could do worse than watch this posh British quasi-thriller, which trades on the quality image while simultaneously blackening its name....

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  Making Love

  Arthur Hiller

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  It's easy sport to make fun of a movie like Making Love, which tries its damnedest to be courageous but still toes the line of the day on w...

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  Lie With Me

  Clement Virgo

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  We all know that Canadians can't have fun without having a learning experience at the same time. So it comes to pass that this sexed-up ext...