Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Typhoon

Kwak Kyung-taek

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

Lest people think that only Hollywood can make big soulless action entertainment, here comes Typhoon to suggest that South Korea can do eve...

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Lian Lunson

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

I’m Your Man is half concert film and half homage to the genius of Leonard Cohen, though only one half is worth keeping. Largely concerned...

The Break-Up

Peyton Reed

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

Nobody expects miracles from a Jennifer Aniston rom-com, and you won’t find them in The Break-Up, but you will find a movie that’s plenty b...

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

Picking out the message of this Cannes-winning screenplay isn’t easy; it wants to punish racial discrimination but then takes pains to avoi...

The Notorious Bettie Page

Mary Harron

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

Making a movie about pin-up pioneer Bettie Page has one serious stumbling block: Page has been largely incommunicado since finding God and...

Marlene Dietrich: The Glamour Collection

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

Five titles are presented here fresh from the vaults featuring the goddess who knew how to look like a woman, dress like a man and kill wit...

The Promise

Chen Kaige

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

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

Kinky Boots

Julian Jarrold

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

This is the umpteenth version of the "plucky working class Brits do something risqué comedy,” though we’ve now graduated to the point where...