Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

The Guardian

Andrew Davis

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

There’s no pressing reason to see this big pot of inspirational swill, but those who find themselves watching it might find themselves bemu...

The Proposition

John Hillcoat

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

Movies have become so sanitised that it’s hard to know what to do with the harsh stuff that The Proposition throws at you. The best revisio...

Art School Confidential

Terry Zwigoff

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

By all rights, Art School Confidential shouldn’t be much. The filmmakers — director Terry Zwigoff and writer/comic artist Daniel Clowes — h...

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Sydney Pollack

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

What lunatic decided that the king of eccentric architecture should be documented by the knave of safe Hollywood pap? Incredibly, it was Fr...

The Jayne Mansfield Collection

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

Those who rue the target mentality of Marilyn Monroe would probably turn their heads and grimace at the sight of Jayne Mansfield. Where Mar...

Crank

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

It would seem as though the title, Crank, has less to do with the drug and more with a guy on the street who shouts at passers-by. Like him...

Trust the Man

Bart Freundlich

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

Just when you thought the ’90s were over, here comes a fatuous comedy to prove you wrong. Trust the Man takes the ultra-bland, pseudo-indie...

A Sunday in Kigali

Robert Favreau

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

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...