Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Black Hawk Down: SE

Ridley Scott

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

By its very title, we know that Black Hawk Down is going to be about hardware. Director Ridley Scott pulls out all the stops in an attempt...

The Festival Collection

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

So Mongrel Media and Blockbuster have a thing going. The Canadian firm is now distributing its Festival Collection of overlooked internatio...

The Ice Harvest

Harold Ramis

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

It's rare that you see a Hollywood movie with the kind of irredeemable scum you find in The Ice Harvest. The most sympathetic character is...

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Jane Anderson

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

It may not be bravura filmmaking, but this Prize Winner is defiant in its skilful playing of both sides of the street. The 1950s-set true s...

Threat

Matt Pizzolo

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Threat is sort of a diamond in the rough, but it's so rough you can barely see the gem underneath. Made by a crew of teens and 20somethings...

Basic Instinct 2

Michael Caton-Jones

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Close, but no cigar. This ten years too late sequel inches very near to being an actual movie before bogging down and petering out. Sharon...

Ice Age: The Meltdown

Carlos Saldanha

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

I'll say one thing for this sequel to Ice Age: it could hardly be worse than its mediocre predecessor. And so it manages to rise exactly on...

The Real World

DOCUMENTARY

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

In contrast to that other famous Toronto film fest, which traffics in the dreams of the world, the Hot Docs Documentary Festival offers som...