Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Volver

  Pedro Almodóvar

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  The recent melodramatic films of Pedro Almodovar have sent some of his earlier followers into a tailspin — one of my colleagues rued the lo...

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  The White Masai

  Hermine Huntgeburth

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2007

  Words fail to describe this film, a seething mass of cross-purposes and misunderstood motives that never jells into a coherent position. A...

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  The Wind That Shakes the Barley

  Ken Loach

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2007

  There are many ways you can censure this, Ken Loach’s hour of glory after winning the top prize at Cannes. It’s a ruefully one-sided depict...

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  I Think I Love My Wife

  Chris Rock

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2007

  Based as it is on a total cynicism regarding human behaviour, Chris Rock’s stand-up makes a rather poor fit with the brightly lit romantic...

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  Fido

  Andrew Currie

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2007

  Given this film’s combination of ’50s repression and flesh-eating zombies, I was ready for something sophomoric and cheap. Imagine my surpr...

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  A Stone's Throw

  Camelia Frieberg

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  Imagine every bad stereotype of Canadian film rolled into one movie and you’ve got a good idea of how A Stone’s Throw plays out. There’s a...

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  A Sunday in Kigali

  Robert Favreau

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  My hopes were raised early on in A Sunday in Kigali, as it wound new threads of the AIDS crisis and white intransigence into the standard R...

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  Bamako

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

  The novel approach of this international smack down doesn’t always translate into cinema gold, but you have to admit its impassioned cri de...