Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  The Matador

  Richard Shepard

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  It's impossible not to think of James Bond while watching Pierce Brosnan in The Matador. That is, how the lead's sleazy, womanising hit man...

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  The Aristocrats

  Paul Provenza

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  By now, you're sure to know that this is the filthiest movie of the year: nearly 100 top comics tell the ancient vaudeville joke dedicated...

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  Broken Flowers

  Jim Jarmusch

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  The worst thing about Broken Flowers is that it could have been made by anyone. Had a newcomer turned in this tolerable but standard tale o...

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  Brothers

  Suzanne Bier

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  Ex-Dogme 95 proponent Suzanne Bier takes on an even more questionable ideology in her follow-up to Italian for Beginners. The melodramatic...

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  Julia

  Fred Zinnemann

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  If you take Julia as a well-crafted bit of historical melodrama with a tense "behind enemy lines" sequence and loads of cant about heroism,...

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  The Gospel Road

  Robert Elfstrom

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  As readers of Joe Bob Briggs all know, 1973 was the "year of the musical Jesus." And just under the radar of the year's adaptations of Gods...

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  Bright Future

  Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  At first, Bright Future is completely inscrutable, a head-scratching collection of antisocial and obsessive behaviours that add up to who k...

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  I, Claudia

  Chris Abraham

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  I, Claudia isn't much more than a performance by an actor with masks, but the performance is a killer (and so are the masks). Emerging out...