Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Road House
Jean Negulesco
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2008
Thankfully, this late 40s noir has nothing at all to do with Patrick Swayze or his well-documented dreaminess, choosing instead to re-jigg...
Moontide
Fritz Lang and Archie Mayo
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2008
Fritz Lang started then abandoned this deeply melancholy early noir, famous for being the flop American debut of French idol Jean Gabin. Th...
Boomerang
Elia Kazan
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2008
When is a liberal movie not a liberal movie? When its so tied to the concepts of "common values that it looks like a 12-year-old keener o...
Adoration
Atom Egoyan
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008
Egoyan has pretty much crumbled these last few years and his latest effort in pious windbaggery is no reversal of the trend. Where he once...
Gomorrah
Matteo Garone
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008
The big cheat of most mafia movies is that they purport to represent a terrible social trap while glorifying it at the same time. Gomorrah...
Hunger
Steve McQueen
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008
A certain dead actor has not come out of retirement the Steve McQueen at the helm of Hunger is a respected visual artist making his featu...
Summer Hours
Oliver Assayas
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008
Olivier Assayas recent projects havent quite set the world on fire the way they did back in his Irma Vep days. That should change with th...
Three Monkeys
Nuri-Bilge Ceylan
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008
Cinemascope magazine blew this movie off by saying it was nine monkeys less good than a certain Terry Gilliam movie. I dont know if the si...