Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Joyeux Noel

Christian Carion

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

Teen comedies are generally exempted from exhibiting narrative or aesthetic virtues, and this hormonally accelerated romp is no exception....

1900

Bernardo Bertolucci

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

I’ve liked this 1976 movie — all five hours of it — ever since seeing it years ago at a marathon screening in my late, lamented hometown re...

The Animation Show: Volumes 1 and 2

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

Here’s something you wouldn’t expect to bear the MTV stamp: a bunch of crazy animators doing highly un-commercial things. To be sure, these...

Barnyard

Steve Oedekirk

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

This year’s umpteenth animal animation adventure is pretty much the runt of the litter, despite laboured attempts to seem more irreverent t...

Bugsy

Barry Levinson

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

Look on the surface of this 1991 Oscar nominee and you’ll see the usual posh, middlebrow epic. But scratch the surface and you might find s...

The Cry Baby Killer (and The Little Shop of Horrors)

Jus Addiss/Roger Corman

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

It’s two for the price of one in this "Back-to-Back Jack Edition,” though the finer of the flicks has only a passing interest in the top bi...

Flyboys

Tony Bill

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

Ah, WWI: close enough to us to be a modern war but far enough away to allow projections of whatever clichés we choose. Thus Flyboys will no...

Manufactured Landscapes

Jennifer Baichwal

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

Edward Burtynsky is a photographer of manmade horrors: strip mines, massive factories and general piles of refuse on the roadside to what w...