Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Fantastic Voyage

Richard Fleischer

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

Time has not been kind to Fantastic Voyage, the state-of-the-art FX spectacle from 1966. Though one can appreciate the enormous effort that...

Norbit

Brian Robbins

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

Norbit is no ordinary bad movie. The problem is not that it fails but that it succeeds… in employing a searing abjection that is practicall...

Katharine Hepburn: 100th Anniversary Collection

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

It’s the great Kate’s centenary year and to celebrate Warner has released this handsome six-disc collection of Hepburn in all her glory. Tr...

Criminal Law

Martin Campbell

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

The consensus on this movie is that it’s well-directed mediocrity, its plot twists obvious and its psychology rather ridiculous. To this I...

Golden Door

Emanuele Crialese

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2007

The classic image of the American immigrant is that of an awestruck sap coming to the land of infinite opportunity without strings or probl...

Paprika

Satoshi Kon

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2007

Watching anime is like eating a lot of chocolate: at first you enjoy the overwhelming sweet goodness and think the whole thing was a really...

Il Caimano

Nanni Moretti

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2007

Any sensible person takes exception to Silvio Berlusconi’s rightwing reign of error, and Nanni Moretti is an eminently sensible person. Wha...

Sweet Mud

Dror Shaul

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2007

If you’re thinking of joining a kibbutz, you might want to think twice, especially after seeing this lacerating Israeli feature on the subj...