Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Click

  Frank Coraci

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Words fail to describe the sheer awfulness of the thing called Click, a film which manages to be monstrously hateful above and beyond its t...

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  The Dying Gaul

  Craig Lucas

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  I always hate it when the movie I think I’m watching turns out to be better than the one that gets revealed three reels in. Alas, The Dying...

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  Basic Instinct 2

  Michael Caton-Jones

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Close, but no cigar. This ten years too late sequel inches very near to being an actual movie before bogging down and petering out. Sharon...

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  Down Argentine Way

  Irving Cummings

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  It’s ballrooms and bad accents galore in the South American-themed musical that made Betty Grable’s name on screen. The "million-dollar leg...

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  The World's Fastest Indian

  Roger Donaldson

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Every now and then a movie comes along that is obviously bad yet pushes your buttons so skilfully that it seems to actually work. Such is t...

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  Firewall

  Richard Loncraine

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  If you must have a formulaic "daddy saves kidnapped family” film, this is a little bit better than most. But not by much. Harrison Ford pla...

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  Wordplay

  Patrick Creadon

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Spellbound inadvertently inaugurated a new documentary genre — the nerd invitational — in which we’re a) introduced to a brainy game, b) in...

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  The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

  Justin Lin

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  I absent-mindedly managed to be somewhere else during the runs of The Fast and the Furious and its first sequel. Number three has the advan...