Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Dreamer

John Gatins

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

It's the "inspirational sports movie" combined with the "down home horse movie" for one big, mawkish jamboree. Kurt Russell and Dakota Fann...

Scum

Alan Clarke

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

There are two ways to see Alan Clarke’s vision of juvie hell: the one that hits like a club, or the one that cuts like a knife. Both versio...

The Thing Called Love: Director's Cut

Peter Bogdanovich

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

The Thing Called Love is a movie that veers in and out of your consciousness — just when you’ve written it off as a pile of clichés, it man...

Battle in Heaven

Carlos Reygadas

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

I have no idea how to reckon with the torrent of bizarre imagery that is Battle in Heaven. Ostensibly a cri de coeur for director Carlos Re...

Memoirs of a Geisha

Rob Marshall

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

I don’t feel qualified to wade into the controversy involving this film’s Chinese actors playing Japanese roles; I do feel qualified to say...

Remember the Titans

Boaz Yakin

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

The idea of the "inspirational sports movie” generally strikes fear into a film reviewer’s heart, so it’s a double disappointment that this...

Carole Lombard: The Glamour Collection

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

The queen of screwball is back; the woman who could make you laugh and swoon in the same breath is here for some sparkling wit and choice r...

The Year Of The Yao

James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

I was initially terrified that this documentary would push all sorts of self-congratulatory American buttons, but it manages to keep the Ho...