Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Peter Sellers: MGM Movie Legends Collection

PUBLISHED May 25, 2007

Peter Sellers was a brilliant comic actor who somehow managed to be better than most of the movies he was in. MGM’s new collection features...

Bug

William Friedkin

PUBLISHED May 24, 2007

After two hours of paranoid delusions, wanton self-mortification, spousal abuse and other gruesome indignities, I am no closer to understan...

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

Ed Blum

PUBLISHED May 24, 2007

Sorry, horn dogs, there’s no actual sex (and mostly just talk) in this British comedy of manners set on Hampstead Heath. This would be fine...

Fay Grim

Hal Hartley

PUBLISHED May 24, 2007

Hal Hartley’s decade-later follow-up to Henry Fool has none of that film’s wit or power. And although it grasps at bigger issue...

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Steven Shainberg

PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

Diane Arbus was a great American photographer who took pictures of such lacerating abjection that it seemed inevitable when she committed s...

Georgia Rule

Garry Marshall

PUBLISHED May 11, 2007

Georgia Rule is a light-hearted comedy about sexual abuse, and while it’s not quite as inappropriate as that sounds, it still refuses to ta...

Jindabyne

Ray Lawrence

PUBLISHED May 10, 2007

A critic friend of mine warned me that this movie was "as earnest as death itself,” and that, unfortunately, is the best way to describe th...

An Officer and a Gentleman

Taylor Hackford

PUBLISHED May 10, 2007

My long ago remembrance of this film’s mediocrity proved incorrect; it’s a simple but effective melodrama made with more oomph than the gen...