Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  The Two Sides of the Bed

  Emilio Martinez-Lazaro

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

  This is the sequel to a Spanish hit called The Other Side of the Bed; perhaps familiarity with the original could make this follow-up beara...

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  Quinceañera

  Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

  There’s nothing especially wrong with this social-realist look at Latino Los Angeles but somehow it lacks the fire of real art and subseque...

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  The Lives of Others

  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

  For about an hour, The Lives of Others threatens to be an actual movie. It’s a conventional one, with a sexy artists’ milieu and some evil...

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  Mount Pleasant

  Ross Weber

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

  Set in the titular Vancouver neighbourhood, where the bourgeois rub shoulders with the drugged-out and destitute, Ross Weber’s sophomore ef...

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  Venus

  Roger Michell

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

  There are occasionally movies that are part of an annoying subgenre but manage to transcend its limitations through style and verve. So it...

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  Blood and Chocolate

  Katja von Garnier

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

  There isn’t a single credible line or believable shot in the whole of Blood and Chocolate, which is too bad since it’s depending so terribl...

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  Catch and Release

  Susannah Grant

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

  Is there really a market for something like Catch and Release? Though it’s clearly not aimed at me, I can’t imagine who would tolerate this...

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  Dreamgirls

  Bill Condon

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

  It’s been a long time since a big, brassy musical blew through town, and compared to the execrable Chicago, Dreamgirls has power in spades....