Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

10,000 B.C.

Roland Emmerich

PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2008

Not since Raquel Welch donned a fur bikini have prehistoric times been so travestied as in 10,000 B.C. But the Roland Emmerich epic could u...

Savage Grace

Tom Kalin

PUBLISHED Jul 4, 2008

When Tom Kalin made Swoon a decade-and-a-half ago, he looked poised to become one of the Queer New Wave’s brightest lights, until he chose...

The Fantastic Four: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2008

The hour of darkness never ends for Fantastic Four fans: not only have a pair of movies sullied one of the main pillars of the Marvel Unive...

Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2008

Strange how Fleischer studios was considered the gritty, working-class alternative to the Disney mill — next to Uncle Walt’s coercive confo...

Waiter

Alex van Warmerdam

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2008

Sharp-eyed readers will note the similarity of this Dutch meta-farce to last year’s Stranger than Fiction: both films posit a fictional cha...

Darfur Now

Theodore Braun

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2008

The title of this movie is slightly misleading. It’s not about Darfur now; it’s about the activism and legal manoeuvring trying to help sta...

Family Motel

Helene Klodawsky

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2008

In one sense, Family Motel is a cut above the usual Canadiana. Where most of our allegedly socially conscious cinema exploits politics for...

My Winnipeg

Guy Maddin

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2008

Guy Maddin turns in his most entertaining movie in years — certainly his best since Heart of the World, the crazed short that revived his c...