Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Vitus

Fredi M. Murer

PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2007

Vitus seems at first like every other mediocre movie in the "misunderstood child genius” genre. But then a switch is thrown and the film be...

The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2007

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 provoked such unending cult rapture that its resurrection in some form was inevitable. But the reunion of key...

Angel-A

Luc Besson

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2007

It had been some years since Luc Besson made his failed bid to be an American director when he resurfaced with this so-French love letter t...

La Vie En Rose

Olivier Dahan

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2007

No matter who bio-pics are about, they’re all pretty much the same: rise from adversity, amazing achievement, terrible complication, etc. B...

Love for Sale

Karim Ainouz

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2007

Love for Sale is sort of a near miss. I liked the aimlessness of the narrative, the gentle flow of images and the guilt-free approach to se...

Skinwalkers

Jim Isaac

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2007

This thoroughly negligible werewolf movie is just good enough to be competently irritating. Unlike this year’s other terrible lycanthropy r...

Margot at the Wedding

Noah Baumbach

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2007

Those expecting a sparkling follow-up to The Squid and the Whale will be cruelly disappointed. Where that earlier film was a pointed critiq...

August Rush

Kirsten Sheridan

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2007

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 mag...