Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2008

Deep within this briefcase-shaped deluxe package is one of the more pleasant relics of ’60s TV: all four seasons of The Man from U.N.C.L.E....

The Visitor

Thomas McCarthy

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2008

Thomas McCarthy (director of The Station Agent) stumbles badly with this do-good enterprise that does no actual good. Instead of awakening...

Warner Gangsters Collection Vol. 4

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2008

Don’t take the title of this collection too seriously; it’s mostly films at a bit of a remove from the early to mid-’30s gangster heyday, w...

Chapter 27

J.P Schaefer

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2008

Jared Leto would no doubt like you to think of Robert DeNiro’s turn in Raging Bull as he does his turn in Chapter 27. Ballooning quite larg...

Taxi to the Dark Side

Alex Gibney

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2008

The documentary Oscar winner for 2007 is, surprise, a very good movie. If it’s nobody’s idea of radical it’s still ethically committed and...

Anamorph

H.S Miller

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2008

This is a very late entry in the Seven/Silence of the Lambs genre, so late that the filmmakers forgot exactly why they bothered. Going thro...

Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2008

Errol Morris is famous for disputing the factuality of accounts and photographs, and this time he courted controversy for uncovering the ev...

Gigi

Vincente Minnelli

PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2008

Vincente Minnelli has been lionized the world over for his great musicals but one of his most famous — this 1958 Oscar winner — is more pro...