Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Let's All Hate Toronto

  Robert Spence and Albert Nerenberg

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2007

  All Canadians are united in their disdain for America but a more slippery issue lies in their concurrent loathing for Toronto. Is the natio...

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  Faith without Fear: Irshad Manji's Quest

  Ian MacLeod

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2007

  This is a TV distillation of a complex person, a complex subject and some very complex interactions between the two. But though many import...

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  Red Road

  Andrea Arnold

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2007

  Red Road is such a bravura piece of filmmaking that it takes a while for the deficiencies of the plot to sink in. Director Andrea Arnold is...

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  The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

  David L. Cunningham

  PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2007

  It was inevitable that Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and their fantasy lit movie hit brethren would eventually inspire also-ran title...

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  Michael Clayton

  Tony Gilroy

  PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2007

  One normally doesn’t take much pleasure in self-serious Hollywood liberal handwringers but there’s no denying that Michael Clayton is prett...

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  The Bothersome Man

  Jens Lien

  PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2007

  This is the movie where the Narrator fails to find his Tyler Durden and suffers instead the Ikea banalities of the modern world. Though Nor...

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  Puffball

  Nicholas Roeg

  PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2007

  I can’t for the life of me figure out what this UK/Irish/Canadian co-production is driving at. The first film in 11 years by fallen idol Ni...

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  Feast of Love

  Robert Benton

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2007

  In 1972, Robert Benton directed a terrific western called Bad Company. An elegiac story of a wealthy Civil War draft dodger falling in with...