Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  The Last Trapper

  Nicolas Vanier

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  This ostensibly French co-production has a little money in it from the National Film Board of Canada. Which is fitting, as it fits the Boar...

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  Zu Warriors

  Tsui Hark

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  There are plenty of digital shenanigans in Tsui Hark's remake, which takes his 18-year-old Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain and drives it...

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  Derailed

  Mikael Håfström

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Two bad movies for the price of one: a grim, depressing drama that turns into a dopey, thrill-less thriller. Clive Owen stars as a harried...

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  Elephant Shoes

  Christos Sourligas

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  This routine Canadian rom-com smartens up in its final third to look like an actual movie, though it's a photo finish as to whether it sque...

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  Roll Bounce

  Malcolm D. Lee

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  It's damning with faint praise to say that this is probably the best roller disco teen comedy possible, but faint praise is praise all the...

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  Caché

  Michael Haneke

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  Michael Haneke used to be a bitter old Austrian who ground familiar axes about bourgeois alienation. But somewhere around Time of the Wolf...

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  The Constant Gardener

  Fernando Meirelles

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  Fernando Meirelles is some kind of magician. As the director of The Constant Gardener, he has to take you through the story of British dipl...

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  Saraband

  Ingmar Bergman

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  Ingmar Bergman is the most ridiculous man to ever hold you spellbound. His final work in the moving image is a typically desolate gesture i...