Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Poor Boy's Game

  Clement Virgo

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  The opening scenes of Poor Boy’s Game got my hopes up. As it intercut scenes of the prison violence of a white racist (Rossif Sutherland) w...

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  Sad Vacation

  Shinji Aoyama

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  The director of the much-admired Eureka returns with a significantly shorter but no less humane exploration of familial trauma and emotiona...

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  Sleuth

  Kenneth Branagh

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  I don’t particularly care for the original Sleuth, a Broadway/West End concoction far less clever than it would have you believe. Still, I...

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  Une Vielle Maitresse

  Catherine Breillat

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  This latest effort by Catherine Breillat is surprisingly inexplicit — there’s no rape, genital close-ups or unnatural use of foreign object...

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  Useless

  Jia Zhangke

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  China’s avatar of globalised menace hits documentary pay dirt in this oddly constructed but sharply argued portrait of an industry in denia...

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  Across the Universe

  Julie Taymor

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  So it’s finally happened: the ’60s, that once painful memory of political strife and social upheaval, have passed from hotly debated point...

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  Alexandra

  Alexander Sokurov

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  Alexander Sokurov is the kind of master who amazes and infuriates in equal measure — there’s no denying his artistry or his seriousness but...

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  American Venus

  Bruce Sweeney

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  Canadian Psycho would have been a better title — that’s apparently who made this singularly misguided, supremely nonsensical and utterly un...