Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Escape to Canada

Albert Nerenberg

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2007

Canada has gay marriage and is threatening to decriminalise pot; this makes us better than the Americans. Duly noted, but once you’ve read...

Rise: Blood Hunter

Sebastian Gutierrez

PUBLISHED May 31, 2007

This exercise in vampire sleaze isn’t scary, thrilling or at all credible. It is, however, hilariously funny for all of the wrong reasons....

Severance

Christopher Smith

PUBLISHED May 31, 2007

This UK horror romp has its tongue planted only halfway in cheek; it keeps jumping between serious genre entry and joke-y free-for-all, and...

Ten Canoes

Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr

PUBLISHED May 31, 2007

Ten Canoes begins with a voiceover stating, "once upon a time…” then laughs at the pomposity of such a leadoff. Thus the movie had me at "h...

Me & Michael

Willard Morgan

PUBLISHED May 25, 2007

I had hoped that this film might have been an incisive critique of the left’s most overrated spokesman, or at least some kind of right-wing...

Hollywood Dreams

Henry Jaglom

PUBLISHED May 25, 2007

When we first meet Margie Chizek (Tanna Frederick), she’s failing at an audition. First she cries, then she fluffs the monologue she’s prep...

Ball of Fire

Howard Hawks

PUBLISHED May 25, 2007

This isn’t prime Howard Hawks by any stretch but its screwball spin on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs still makes for a sparkling bit of H...

Gary Cooper: MGM Movie Legends Collection

PUBLISHED May 25, 2007

DVD collections are usually a mixed bag: you’re not guaranteed that some or any of the titles will be emblematic, typical, or even good exa...