Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

How I Met Your Mother: Season One

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

For years now, CBS has continually led in the ratings war with crime investigations and reality television. A look at their roster of comed...

Jet Li's Fearless

Ronny Yu

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

This is indeed the final martial arts film of the great Jet Li — so great that this thoroughly maudlin epic makes a rather awkward capper t...

Lady In the Water

M. Night Shyamalan

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

M. Night Shyamalan is an uncommonly talented director with uncommonly bad ideas. His latest, widely mocked effort is sort of an anti-master...

One Night with the King

Michael O. Sajbel

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

So Rupert Murdoch has a new label for Christians — "Fox Faith” it’s called — and it apparently extends to boring historical epics like this...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Gore Verbinski

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

This is a minor improvement over the original Pirates of the Caribbean, with bigger set pieces and nicer visual effects. Still, a little Pi...

The Promise

Chen Kaige

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

The name Chen Kaige used to mean something. He was the one who essentially broke Chinese film in the West with his Yellow Earth, but after...

The Protector

Prachya Pinkaew

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

Action fans, your ship has come in. Now there are two ways to experience Tony Jaa in his latest Muay Thai extravaganza. This handsome doubl...

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Zhang Yimou

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

I had hoped that this would be Zhang Yimou’s return to form after the big, dumb action hoo-ha of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Imagine...