Before his excellent roles in Taylor Sheridan's Landman, Fargo, and Goliath, Billy Bob Thorntonprimarily focused on featur ...

Knowing this, it seems strange that the movie has been borderline impossible to watch for a long time unless you obtain a physical copy of "Sling Blade." In fact, before 2024, streaming the film ...

When Sling Blade hit theaters in 1996, it set the tone for movies set in the South and Arkansas while catapulting Billy Bob Thornton to stardom. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...

On June 7, Thornton released a director's cut of the film, which features more than 22 minutes of extra footage, along with a wealth of archival material recounting the filmmaker's days as a ...

"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 ...

Karl Childers In 1996’s “Sling Blade,” country singer Dwight Yoakam played villain Doyle, who ended up on the wrong end of Karl’s (Billy Bob Thornton) swinging lawn mower blade.

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 ...

The Old River Bridge in central Arkansas, that played a role in the popular 1996 movie "Sling Blade," has been refurbished and will soon be in use once again.

Some folks call it “Sling Blade.” Some folks call it “Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade.” “And some folks call it a lost opportunity,” independent film director G… ...