Movies
“The Neon Bible” is not like any other period coming-of-age-in-the-South movies you’ve ever seen.
April 5, 1996
Mark Harmon is making a movie for CBS, “After the Promise.”
April 19, 1987
“The Cure,” a well-acted heart-tugger about two 11-year-old boys, one of whom has AIDS, works as a drama on friendship and its challenges, but has too many loose ends, too much that hasn’t been thoroughly thought out.
April 21, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
The Scene: Monday’s premiere of HBO’s “Truman” at the Paramount studio theater with a festive, campaign-style lawn party after the screening.
Aug. 23, 1995
“Brenda Starr” (citywide) arrives after some five years of legal disputes over distribution rights.
April 15, 1992
At the beginning of “Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain”--a charming yet substantial adventure movie aimed at adolescent girls--13-year-old Beth (Christina Ricci), arriving in a picture-book Oregon village nestled in the most spectacularly beautiful mountain setting imaginable, asks petulantly, “Where’s the mall?”
Nov. 3, 1995
Welcome back to the Bates Motel, its “No Vacancy” signs lit up for “Psycho III” (citywide).
July 2, 1986
Television
The divisive issue of abortion surfaces Sunday in Showtime’s “Critical Choices,” less than two months after the airing of HBO’s abortion drama “If These Walls Could Talk.”
Dec. 7, 1996
“Extremities” (selected theaters) is the serious, non-exploitative, carefully done adaptation of William Mastrosimone’s play, written in 1978 and performed Off Broadway in late 1982.
Aug. 22, 1986
Strange Invaders (Channel 9 Sunday at 6 p.m.), an artful, 1983 tongue-in-cheek satire of science-fiction movies both of the ‘50s and the present, stars Diana Scarwid and Paul Le Mat.
Feb. 28, 1988