Patrick Swayze: Back in Houston
December 19, 1988 | Patrick Swayze returned home last week, every inch the conquering hero after the box-office smash of Dirty Dancing and the chart-busting hit of ''She’s Like the Wind.''…
Patrick Swayze on “Road House”
May 14, 1989 | Patrick Swayze was on last weekend, flashing smiles and pumping hands, cracking jokes and fielding questions, bounding from one interview to the next at New York’s…
Patrick Swayze in “To Wong Foo”
September 3, 1995 | During his high school years in Houston, Texas native Patrick Swayze excelled in sports. But he also excelled in dance -- his mother, Patsy Swayze, was and…
Sidney Poitier
February 7, 1988 | Sidney Poitier seems remarkably composed, even serene, for a man who has little more than an hour to catch a plane. His limousine is threading slowly, ever…
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…