Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Lions for Lambs

  Robert Redford

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2008

  If you’ve been trying to convert a conservative friend to the antiwar cause, for God’s sake keep them away from this nightmare of condescen...

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  Kings of the Sun

  J. Lee Thompson

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2008

  It’s not every day that you see Hollywood movies about Mayans making nice with Apaches but Kings of the Sun is just special enough to try....

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  August Rush

  Kirsten Sheridan

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2008

  August Rush is the movie Neil Jordan would make if he were a 14-year-old girl, and an idiot. Bad enough that the film is a collection of ma...

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  Solomon and Sheba

  King Vidor

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2008

  There’s an early scene in Solomon and Sheba where Gina Lollobrigida whips somebody in the face. Sometime later, there’s a cheesy "pagan” ce...

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  Taras Bulba

  J. Lee Thompson

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2008

  I’ll lay my savings on the probability that the Nikolai Gogol novel was better, but if you don’t have time to read it this schlock adaptati...

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  El Cid

  Anthony Mann

  PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2008

  Deranged super-producer Samuel Bronston hit his highest note with this, one of the best of the ’50s/’60s widescreen spectacles. It turns ou...

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  Introducing the Dwights

  Cherie Nowlan

  PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2008

  Castrating mothers and life-giving lovers are the stuff of cliché legend, and Introducing the Dwights offers no new variations on these the...

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  Continental, A Film without Guns

  Stéphane Lafleur

  PUBLISHED Feb 29, 2008

  Many Canadian films strive for the po-mo alienation of European and Asian models, and most of them are so grindingly earnest in their imita...