Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Desperately Seeking Susan / Something Wild

  Susan Seidelman / Jonathan Demme

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  Two ’80s icons that trade on the indie demimonde, both feature a wild woman shaking up some mousy wallflower but only one keeps the faith w...

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  Johnny Be Good / Youngblood

  Bud Smith / Peter Markle

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  MGM has paired these two movies because of their sports themes and their casts of ’80s brat pack heartthrobs. But there’s another reason to...

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  Losin' It / The Last American Virgin

  Curtis Hanson / Boaz Davidson

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  Here are two ’80s cheese fests about that most important moment in a man’s life, only one of which manages to be actually entertaining. But...

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  Class / Secret Admirer

  Lewis John Carlino / David Greenwalt

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  Here’s the auteur theory in action. These two teen movies were written by Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt but with different directors, they h...

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  Back to School

  Alan Metter

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  This ’80s slob comedy isn’t all that good but it could have been worse; it gets by on a certain warmth and charm that keeps you from gettin...

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  Molière

  Laurent Tirard

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2007

  This seems to be the season for speculative biographies of canonical writers. Jane Austen just got a ho-hum "what if?” called Becoming Jane...

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  A Stone's Throw

  Camelia Frieberg

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2007

  Imagine every bad stereotype of Canadian film rolled into one movie and you’ve got a good idea of how A Stone’s Throw plays out. There’s a...

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  Klimt

  Raul Ruiz

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2007

  Art lovers have been shaking their fists for some time over the inaccuracies and inventions of this flamingly weird impression of Gustav Kl...