Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  A Dog's Breakfast

  David Hewlett

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2007

  If your idea of a hilarious good time is a completely repulsive character engaging in narcissistic behaviour before being tormented by guil...

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  The Intruder

  Roger Corman

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2007

  I have to admit that The Intruder’s reputation is a tad inflated; its expose of Southern racism is so confused, so slanted and so contradic...

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  La Fille Coupee En Deux

  Claude Chabrol

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  One in the middle for Claude Chabrol, La Fille Coupee En Deux is nowhere near the heights of his greatest films but is a damn sight better...

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  Margot at the Wedding

  Noah Baumbach

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 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...

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  Michael Clayton

  Tony Gilroy

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 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 Mourning Forest

  Naomi Kawase

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  We’re so inundated by the nasty, brutish and weird elements of Japanese cinema that it’s easy to forget its quieter elements. For every vir...

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  My Kid Could Paint That

  Amir Bar-Lev

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  Prodigy or pretence? That’s the question surrounding four-year-old Marla Olmstead and her alleged genius for abstract expressionist paintin...

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  Normal

  Carl Bessai

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  It’s from Canada. It’s called Normal. What are the chances that the title would be ironic? Sure enough, Carl Bessai’s latest is a bubbling...