It has been 20 years since the film world met Karl Childers, a mentally-handicapped man with a shattered, bloody past played by Arkansas-native Billy Bob Thornton. This week in 1996 Thornton’s “Sling ...

BENTON, Ark. — In the early 90s, Arkansas native Billy Bob Thornton found himself at a crossroads. The up-and-coming actor wasn't happy with the direction his career was headed. One day, Thornton was ...

"Sling Blade" is 25 years old. Released nationally on Nov. 27, 1996, the movie, filmed in and around Benton in May 1995, was the creation of Arkansas native, actor and musician, Billy Bob Thornton, ...

The darling of this year's Academy Awards sweepstakes isn't some captivating ingenue, or precocious child star. It's a middle-aged actor from Arkansas with a name that makes him sound like a cast ...

Have you ever watched a movie that changed the way you think about a phrase forever? For me, that movie is Sling Blade, ...

Billy Bob Thornton has returned to TV with the premiere of the second season of "Goliath," the Amazon Studio's legal series, for which Thornton won the Golden Globe as Best TV Drama Actor. As Billy ...

25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his ...

We want to wish a happy birthday to Billy Bob Thornton, the writer, director and star of “Sling Blade,” one of the too-few movies that really gets the South. Arguably our all-time favorite film about ...

In “The Raven,” opening Friday, John Cusack plays Edgar Allen Poe, who finds that he has a fan. Such a fan, in fact, that the guy is killing people in the manners that Poe described in his short ...

"Sling Blade" is 25 years old. Released nationally on Nov. 27, 1996, the movie, filmed in and around Benton in May 1995, was the creation of Arkansas native, actor and musician, Billy Bob Thornton, ...