Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Michael Parenti: Rulers of the Planet

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

This triple dose of "off the cuff” radical thinker Michael Parenti does as much to show the compromises of the lecture format as much as sh...

Silver Streak

Arthur Hiller

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Nobody ever went to a Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor comedy for genius filmmaking, but by those low standards Silver Streak comes out looking pr...

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Gene Wilder

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks made an excellent team for Young Frankenstein: Wilder’s gentility leavened Brooks’s vulgarity and vice versa, so...

Spymate

Robert Vince

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

You didn’t really expect a positive review of an espionage chimp movie did you? Too bad if you did, because I’m just going to tell you the...

The World's Greatest Lover

Gene Wilder

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Gene Wilder’s sophomore directing effort is a big improvement on his first, largely due to a greater reliance on gags over the simple narra...

The Replacement Killers

Antoine Fuqua

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

This was the vaunted Hollywood debut of the one-and-only Chow Yun-Fat, who was made famous by action god John Woo and worshipped by forward...

Aeon Flux

Karyn Kusama

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

I never saw a single episode of the legendary ’90s MTV animated series Aeon Flux, but I have trouble believing it could possibly be as farc...

Imagine Me & You

Ol Parker

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Brokeback Molehill was the smart way a friend of mine described the stress-free approach of Imagine Me & You. Where the characters in that...