Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  The Last American Hero

  Lamont Johnson

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  One of the sleepers of 1973, this small-scale, "good ol' boy" drama packs more resonance than a first glance might suggest. The subject is...

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  Little Fish

  Rowan Woods

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  There are little niggling details in Little Fish that remind you of its obviousness. There's the fact that the lead, Tracy Heart (Cate Blan...

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  The Libertine

  Laurence Dunmore

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  You want to like a movie like The Libertine more than you actually do. It's up to its armpits in dank, fetid atmosphere — just the sort of...

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  Rhinoceros Eyes

  Aaron Woodley

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Canada specialises in limply whimsical features about reclusive, "alienated" man-children who learn the value of "living in the real world....

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  Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

  Mike Mitchell

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  I happened to see the sequel to this 2000 semi-hit before catching the original — imagine my surprise at discovering the sweet movie that p...

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  Fallen Angel

  Otto Preminger

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Memories of film noir have become so debased that it's become impossible to see their inverted compassion. Neo-noirs like Sin City have so...

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  The House on Telegraph Hill

  Robert Wise

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  The House on Telegraph Hill is a better script than a movie, a series of suggestive and sinister conceits let down by bland and indifferent...

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  The Warrior

  Shiro Sagisu

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  If I were in a better mood, I'd try to coax out the cultural complexities of a Korean film that casts a bunch of its countrymen in a suicid...