Entertainment & Arts
Movie review: ‘Texas Killing Fields’
Oct. 14, 2011
Television
If you happen to run into Ray Liotta while you’re out and about, there’s no need to worry.
May 22, 2015
Texans rape, pillage, plunder and kill with a flair--a dubious distinction but a distinction nonetheless.
Dec. 18, 1988
Movies
The consensus 10 best movies of 1984, based on lists from critics around the country: 1--”Amadeus” (Total points) 32 2--”A Soldier’s Story” 23 3--”Cotton Club” 19 4--”Places in the Heart” 18 5--”This Is Spinal Tap” 16 6--”Broadway Danny Rose” 14 7--”The Killing Fields” 13 8--(Tie) “Sunday in the Country” 12 and “Splash” 10--(Tie) “Stranger Than Paradise” 11 “El Norte” and “The Natural” Just missing were “Choose Me” and “A Passage to India,” 10 votes each; “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes,” “Under the Volcano” and the Australia’s “Careful He Might Hear You,” 9 votes apiece, and “All of Me,” “Paris, Texas” and “Bizet’s Carmen,” 8 each.
March 3, 1985
‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ review: Leatherface runs rampant again when strangers come to town in director David Blue Garcia’s sequel, which doesn’t summon the fear of the original.
Feb. 18, 2022
World & Nation
A reporter gets to see how a detective built trust and said just about anything to get a killer to confess.
Sept. 26, 2019
AMERICAN FILMS (in alphabetical order) Atlantic City (Louis Malle) Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen) Choose Me (Alan Rudolph) Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman) Diner (Barry Levinson) Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen) The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe) Once Upon a Time in America (uncut version) (Sergio Leone) Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese) Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch) Tootsie (Sydney Pollack) HONORABLE MENTION The Cotton Club (Francis Coppola) The Emerald Forest (John Boorman) Prizzi’s Honor (John Huston) The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman) FOREIGN FILMS L’Argent (French: Robert Bresson) A Sunday in the Country (French: Bertrand Tavernier) The Ballad of Narayama (Japanese: Shohei Imamura) Berlin Alexanderplatz (W.
July 27, 1986
Violence: Haing S. Ngor won an Oscar for his role in the film. The motive for his murder is not known.
Feb. 27, 1996
Awards
We’re assuming that your DVR, like ours, contains enough television to last you through the second term of the next (pick one) Clinton/Bush administration.
June 23, 2015
The heartland drama “Jackie & Ryan” may prove too low-key and deliberately paced for less patient viewers, but distinct pleasures are to be had from this compactly shot film’s easy rhythms, affecting tone and nicely modulated performances.
July 2, 2015