Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Drawing Restraint 9

Matthew Barney

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

I can tell you that this film is part of a series that art-star Matthew Barney has been working on since 1987; I can also tell you that it...

Social Genocide

Fernando Solanas

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

I had feared, after reports of this film's flirtation with political defeat, that the great Fernando Solanas had finally gone soft. Fat cha...

The Sentinel

Clark Johnson

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

This chipper, would-be ’70s paranoia movie is loaded with gaffes that a genuine sensibility would have been smart enough to avoid. Of cours...

Shock

Alfred Werker

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

I suppose there’s nothing terribly distinguished about the plot for Shock, but once it gets into the nitty-gritty it’s a trim 70 minutes of...

The Laurel and Hardy Collection, Vol. 2

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Laurel and Hardy left the Hal Roach studios in 1940 looking for more creative control; they never got it, settling for some supremely dumb...

The River's Edge

Allan Dwan

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

This has nothing to do with that 1987 "youth in trouble” picture of the similar name; too bad, because it would be seriously enlivened by t...

The Rocket

Charles Binamé

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

The story of hockey legend Maurice "Rocket” Richard isn’t just that of a great athlete but also of a flashpoint for Duplessis-era Quebec. T...

The Black Swan

Henry King

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

I had hoped that this Tyrone Power swashbuckler might have had a little jolt of excitement, especially with spitfire Maureen O’Hara playing...