Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Linda Lovelace for President

  Claudio Guzman

  PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2008

  It may be entirely fruitless to be outraged by this ugly piggybacking on porno chic — that’s what its makers want and any protestation will...

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  The Punisher: Extended Cut

  Jonathan Hensleigh

  PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2008

  Seventeen minutes have been appended to this comic book action adaptation but if they have any appreciable impact, it’s to make a leaden mo...

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  A Jihad for Love

  Parvez Sharma

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2008

  To the best of my knowledge, this is the first documentary in English about gay Muslims. This makes it slightly disappointing that its gr...

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  Stuck

  Stuart Gordon

  PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2008

  This latest effort by Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon has been chided for its thematic obviousness and political confusion. These are va...

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  Alice's House

  Chico Teixeira

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2008

  Critics keep holding out for great movies, to the extent that it’s easy to overlook something merely good, such as this unassuming but grip...

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  Superhero Movie

  Craig Mazin

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2008

  The nerd-will-rise saga of Spider-Man (with occasional borrowings from Batman and X-Men) anchors this latest, predictably feeble entry into...

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  Silent Light

  Carlos Reygadas

  PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2008

  Carlos Reygadas really, really likes Carl Theodor Dreyer. The Mexican director’s latest austere freak-out is made at once more and less int...

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  The Wackness

  Jonathan Levine

  PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2008

  The woods are full of messed-up kids who become confused filmmakers. Sadly, there are far fewer examples of such filmmakers coming to terms...