Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  The Cemetery Club

  Tali Shemesh

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

  A lack of focus mars this Israeli documentary and keeps it slightly fuzzy and indistinct. Still, its subject and material are so moving tha...

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  Drums Along The Mohawk

  John Ford

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

  John Ford was Hollywood’s resident genius and the greatest practitioner of the Western; he was also fiercely and sincerely conservative in...

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  The Gay Deceivers

  Bruce Kessler

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

  I’m not quite sure how to take this 1969 cult item nearly four decades and one cultural sea change later. It’s the story of a model citizen...

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  Hollow Man: Director's Cut

  Paul Verhoeven

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

  Hollow Man is a triumph of technology that isn’t itself a triumph. A scientist with a God complex (Kevin Bacon) is certainly an interesting...

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  The Law of the Weakest

  Lucas Belvaux

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

  Lucas Belvaux once directed an interesting series of films called Trilogy, which intertwined the characters in a thriller, a drama and a fa...

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  Libero

  Kim Rossi Stuart

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

  Eleven-year-old Tommy has a problem: his parents. Father Renato is an aggressive, immature, irresponsible jerk who’s drowning in debt and c...

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  The Nanny Diaries

  Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

  I got more and less than I expected from this bestseller adaptation — though it’s goes down easier than the average film of its kind, there...

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  Sweet Mud

  Dror Shaul

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

  If you’re thinking of joining a kibbutz, you might want to think twice, especially after seeing this lacerating Israeli feature on the subj...