Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Hollywoodland

Allen Coulter

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

The death of George Reeves gets the Hollywood Babylon treatment in this pretender to the Chinatown throne, too bad it doesn’t have the juic...

Film: Year in Review 2006

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2007

1. The Departed 2. Borat 3. Thank You For Smoking 4. L’enfant 5. Little Miss Sunshine The question I’ve been asked to answer is, "how did...

Wild Hogs

Walt Becker

PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2007

Gay panic is a mainstay of bad, brightly lit comedy but there are limits for tolerance in even that iniquitous genre, thus Wild Hogs’ const...

The Astronaut Farmer

Michael Polish

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2007

The Astronaut Farmer takes the American myth of the rebel dreamer and turns it into something so syrupy that it’s almost impossible to bear...

Days of Glory

Rachid Bouchareb

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2007

This French/Algerian Oscar-nominee is a film that constantly hedges its bets; it flip-flops back and forth between critique and glorificati...

A Good Year

Ridley Scott

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2007

The devil must have come to collect on his blood pact with Ridley Scott: though his latest effort is predictably gorgeous beyond all tellin...

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Steve Kloves

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2007

The late ’80s were awash with vaguely classy, sweater-clad movies that offered a yuppified love of show tunes, jazz standards and lounge mu...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Tony Richardson

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2007

The British liked to think they were ahead of the game with their "angry young man” movies but this little number from 1962 proved they had...