Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Citizen Duane
Michael Mabbott
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007
It would seem at this writing that the Canadian theme of TIFF 06 is "the futility of action. Film after film has suggested that various a...
Colossal Youth
Pedro Costa
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007
Few films have led me to such ruinous defeat as Pedro Costas Colossal Youth. Costa is a man much admired in highbrow circles, so I was eag...
Congorama
Philippe Falardeau
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007
A Canadian surprise, Congorama is well-acted, nicely shot and manages to be reasonably smart without getting aesthetically stupid. Dardenne...
Dans les villes
Catherine Martin
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007
According to the festival write-up, this Quebecois opus "explores our inability to connect, even when our need for contact was utterly dire...
EMPz 4 Life
Allan King
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007
National treasure Allan King returns to once again put his documentary contemporaries to shame. The subject this time is Brian Henry, a tir...
Fido
Andrew Currie
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007
Given this films combination of 1950s repression and flesh-eating zombies, I was ready for something sophomoric and cheap. Imagine my surp...
Hana
Hirokazu Kore-eda
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda has been famous for his quiet approaches to explosive subject matter, but he may have met his match with the sam...
The Host
Bong Joon-ho
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007
The monster movie gets a hugely satisfying makeover in this funny and frightening horror romp. After toxic chemicals are dumped into Seoul...