Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Offside

  Jafar Panahi

  PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2007

  This isn’t one of Jafar Panahi’s great films — The Circle and Crimson Gold were tough acts to follow — and Offside winds up singing in more...

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  Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut

  Oliver Stone

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2007

  Oliver Stone first told the tale of our favourite Macedonian conqueror at the length of 175 minutes. Then came the "director’s cut” DVD, wh...

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  Blood Diamond

  Edward Zwick

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2007

  Genuine cinematic intelligence would maintain that you keep Sierra Leone residents in focus when discussing their 1999 civil war and the il...

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  Charlotte's Web

  Gary Winick

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2007

  Charlotte’s Web is a film unstinting in its mediocrity: professionally but not beautifully shot, competently but not intelligently scripted...

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  Happy Feet

  George Miller

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2007

  Though a certain French documentary firmly wedged penguins into the public consciousness it’s this animated extravaganza that uses them to...

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  Le Petit Lieutenant

  Xavier Beauvois

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2007

  The content of this French police procedural isn’t that much different from the average Steven Bochco series, but its visual handling of th...

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  Congorama

  Philippe Falardeau

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2007

  A Canadian surprise, Congorama is well acted, nicely shot and manages to be reasonably smart without getting aesthetically stupid. Dardenne...

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  Radiant City

  Gary Burns and Jim Brown

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2007

  Waydowntown’s Gary Burns and broadcaster Jim Brown turn their attention to the horror that is urban sprawl. Adopting a documentary pose, th...