Feed
June 25, 1993 | Comedy, Steve Martin once noted, is not pretty. The makers of Feed, the savagely clever documentary premiering this weekend at the Rice University Media Center, would likely…
Groundhog Day
February 12, 1993 | In synopsis, Groundhog Day sounds like some lesser episode of The Twilight Zone. In coming attractions trailers, it looks even less promising — more like Caddyshack 3.…
Jon Voight on “Runaway Train”
January 22, 1986 | In Runaway Train, a thriller now on view at local moviehouses, Jon Voight is cast as a hard-boiled, quick-tempered convict who breaks out of a maximum…
Heart Condition
February 2, 1990 | Jack Mooney (Bob Hoskins) is an overweight, openly racist LA cop who lives on bourbon and “greaseburgers,” and looks like something the cat dragged in, had second…
Proof
May 8, 1992| Australian filmmaker Jocelyn Moorehouse makes her feature debut with Proof, a darkly humorous drama of impressive style and precision. But there is nothing of the novice in…
Metropolis
September 24, 2010 | Call it the mother of all science-fiction movies, and you won’t be far off the mark. To view Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s deliriously extravagant 1927 allegory of dehumanized…
Echo Park
January 17, 1987| Right off the top of my head, I can’t think of anything very harsh to say about Echo Park, an innocuous comedy-drama about ambitious eccentrics in a…
Pinocchio (2002)
December 25, 2002 | Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio is such a ghastly misfire, such a charmless and witless waste of film, you can easily understand why Miramax refused to advance-screen it…
News of the World
Echoes of gritty ‘70s revisionist westerns – think Peter Fonda’s The Hired Hand, or Robert Benton’s Bad Company, or Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller — reverberate throughout News of…
Kenneth Branagh
December 14, 1989 | Not the face of a matinee idol, not at all, and certainly not the grave majesty of a king. Relaxing in his Houston hotel suite, Kenneth…