Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Flyboys

Tony Bill

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

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 n...

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Zhang Yimou

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

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...

Shortbus

John Cameron Mitchell

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

Much has been made of the explicit sex in this, John Cameron Mitchell’s follow-up to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but it never seems gratuito...

The Last King of Scotland

Kevin MacDonald

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

This film labours under the misapprehension that it has something to say about the reign of Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin Dada. Sadly, it really...

Employee of the Month

Greg Coolidge

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

Does Employee of the Month really qualify as a movie? Everyone involved, from the writers to the director to most of the tech squad, seem d...

Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 3

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

Noir cannot be bound by a mere two collections. It was inevitable that those mean streets and bad folk would return for a third array of sh...

The Quiet

Jamie Babbit

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

I don’t know why this movie’s called The Quiet — it’s a pretty noisy affair, full of loud narration, loud arguments, loud melodrama and (I...

Half Nelson

Ryan Fleck

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

You want to give Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden points for trying. As the respective writer-director and co-writer of Half Nelson, they’re clear...