Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Mahogany

Berry Gordy

PUBLISHED May 10, 2007

Some people have no gratitude. Take Diana Ross in Mahogany: she could stay at home and tend to the political campaign of boyfriend Billy De...

That Thing You Do! Extended Cut

Tom Hanks

PUBLISHED May 10, 2007

I had no idea that Tom Hanks’s directorial debut — a blip on the box-office radar in 1996 — was remembered well enough to merit a two-disc...

Stomp the Yard

Sylvain White

PUBLISHED May 10, 2007

There’s no denying that Stomp the Yard is a torrent of clichés straight out of the underdog/overachiever playbook. There’s also no denying...

Tyrone Power Collection

PUBLISHED May 10, 2007

Swashbuckling star Tyrone Power once remarked: "I’ve done an awful lot of stuff that’s a monument to the public patience.” And unfortunatel...

Anna Karenina

Julien Duvivier

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2007

Leo Tolstoy’s classic becomes a so-so British movie in this fluid but shallow literary adaptation. The famed title character (Vivien Leigh)...

Donnie Brasco

Mike Newell

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2007

I had avoided Donnie Brasco for years — the idea of a gangster movie from the director of Four Weddings and a Funeral seemed like a losing...

The Chocolate War

Keith Gordon

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2007

Robert Cormier’s teen-lit classic gets the feature film treatment in this sharp, no-nonsense adaptation. Ilan Mitchell-Smith (the other guy...

Pulp

Mike Hodges

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2007

I sort of want to give Pulp points for effort — it’s got such a willingness to throw things against the wall to see if they stick (or explo...