Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

The Edge of Heaven

Fateh Akin

PUBLISHED May 23, 2008

Fateh Akin’s follow-up to the lacerating Head On is this crisscrossing narrative puzzle, which managed to wow the jury in Berlin while unde...

Still Life

Jia Zhangke

PUBLISHED May 23, 2008

This latest from China’s bad seed Jia Zhangke arrived here two years after its Berlin premiere. Better late than never, as it’s the one mus...

The Magnificent Seven: The Complete Series

PUBLISHED May 23, 2008

I never thought I’d actually prefer John Sturges’s overrated 1960 western to anything but that tedious Seven Samurai redux is a masterpiece...

A Raisin in the Sun

Kenny Leon

PUBLISHED May 9, 2008

Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play gets a handsome but maudlin TV rendering and although it takes the material seriously, it misses a...

Classic Musicals Collection: Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory, Vol. 3

PUBLISHED May 9, 2008

Sometimes reaching into the vaults means that you scrape the bottom of the barrel. Hence this collection of inoffensive but mostly disposab...

The Stone Angel

Kari Skogland

PUBLISHED May 8, 2008

There’s a reason Margaret Laurence’s flagship novel became the CanLit chestnut we know today. For all your groaning over having to read it...

Youth Without Youth

Francis Ford Coppola

PUBLISHED May 1, 2008

This was intended as the Coppola comeback after ten years of silence and about as many attempts trying to adapt to commercial exigencies; i...

Resurrecting the Champ

Rod Lurie

PUBLISHED May 1, 2008

It’s such fun watching Hollywood try to lecture you on ethics — the more they huff and puff about what’s right and what’s good, the more yo...