Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

The Secret of Grain

Abdel Kechine

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2008

I was surprised to find that this unassuming slice of life won a bunch of Cesar awards, including Best Picture; it’s not the kind of pseudo...

Deception

Marcel Langenagger

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2008

The sex thriller is an essentially hypocritical genre: first it hooks you with the promise of sex only to throw the cold water and bring do...

Errol Flynn Western Collection

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

Errol Flynn movies are at once deeply enjoyable and completely disposable: you groove heavy behind them while watching only to forget which...

Workingman's Death

Michael Glawogger

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

Workingman’s Death combines a pretty valiant stab at a conceptual documentary with a pretty credible cri-de-coeur about the worldwide victi...

The Price of Sugar

Bill Hane

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

Tough call on this one. The real subject of the film is Father Christopher Hartley, a renegade cleric who stood against the oppression of H...

Silent Light

Carlos Reygadas

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

Carlos Reygadas really, really likes Carl Theodor Dreyer. The Mexican director’s latest austere freak-out is made at once more and less int...

How The West Was One

Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

How the West Was Won has a reputation for being impossibly dull. But the film’s not impossible, just predictable. Collect this many inappro...

Dirty Sexy Money: Season One

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

There’s nothing much dirty and only flashes of sexiness in this free TV drama — at least it cost some money, thus making the title 33.3 pre...