Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Pan's Labyrinth

  Guillermo Del Toro

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  Critics have been falling all over themselves praising this violent fantasy, but not me. Its fascist atrocities aside, Pan’s Labyrinth is s...

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  Curse of the Golden Flower

  Zhang Yimou

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  After the unqualified failure of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Zhang Yimou had nowhere to go but up. Thus we have the floridly ridic...

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  Breach

  Billy Ray

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  Breach is such a good movie you sort of want it to be a little better. Its delineation of the biggest security breach in American history,...

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  Breaking and Entering

  Anthony Minghella

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  By now, everybody should have had enough of tender dramas about the damaged bourgeois feeling all broken up about the underclass. But the c...

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  Partition

  Vic Sarin

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

  What a surprise: a bad Canadian film opening in January. Unfortunately, this time the subject (the refugees created by the formation of Pak...

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  Curse of the Golden Flower

  Zhang Yimou

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2007

  After the unqualified failure of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Zhang Yimou had nowhere to go but up. Thus we have the floridly ridic...

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  A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

  Dito Montiel

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2007

  This film is pitched partway between achingly sincere and fumblingly imprecise; it pours its heart out without considering what's to be don...

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  A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

  Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2007

  We all know about Al Gore and his inconvenient truths, but Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack have another negative spin on our fossil fuel fix...