Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Revolver

Guy Ritchie

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2008

Revolver is not unlike those people who pay credit card debts by getting more credit cards. It starts with a bad idea that we might have sh...

Warner Gangsters Collection Volume 3

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2008

Six more "dirty ’30s” crime sprees, you dirty rats — none are exactly barnburners but almost all are fascinating detours from the genre int...

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 2

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2008

Joseph Breen put the kibosh on a lot of provocative subject matter, and this collection is devoted to five more early sound examples of wha...

The Year My Parents Went On Vacation

Cao Hamburger

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2008

The year is 1970, and Brazil is under a military dictatorship. But it may as well be sunny California for all Cao Hamburger gets out of thi...

Married Life

Ira Sachs

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2008

Ira Sachs’s stolid relationship drama marks a step back in his career — compared to the lovely Forty Shades of Blue, it’s a little too obvi...

The Duchess of Langeais

Jacques Rivette

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2008

Balzac’s The Duchess of Langeais is a 19th-century realist novel, and as such it explains itself as it goes, stuffs your head full of direc...

Running with Arnold

Dan Cox

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2008

There’s nothing I’d like better than a cogent, clear-eyed documentary numbering the many sins of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unfortunat...

Blood+: Part One

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2008

This anime TV series derives its inspiration from the celebrated movie Blood: The Last Vampire, sharing with it a young female looking to s...