Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Lady Chatterley

Pascale Ferran

PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2007

This is a French adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s lesser-known second version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and it’s been getting everything from...

In a Dark Place

PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2007

In a Dark Place isn’t the worst film ever made but it just might be the laziest. Written and directed by people on autopilot, it phones in...

Blades of Glory

Josh Gordon & Will Speck

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2007

News flash: figure skating is gay. Be prepared to suffer all manner of gags about girly men in satin outfits when approaching Blades of Glo...

War

Philip G. Atwell

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2007

I was really in the mood for a good, silly action movie but even I have my limits. War is so outrageous that it shreds all of its credibili...

The Nanny Diaries

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2007

I got more and less than I expected from this bestseller adaptation — though it’s got finer shading than the average film of its kind, ther...

Transylvania

Tony Gatlif

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

Here’s another one of Tony Gatlif’s crazy Roma freak outs, and like the last one it’s compulsively watchable while being completely ridicul...

Film Noir Classics Collection Vol. 4w

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

The year’s must-have collection has arrived: ten largely unheralded but mostly fantastic entries into the genre/style/movement that made a...

Ashura

Yojiro Takita

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

Those who like to scrutinise movies for their "mythic” or "archetypal” content should have a whale of a time with this bluntly supernatural...