The Silence of the Lambs (movie)

The strange saga of Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the "Night Stalker," who died Friday, had all the earmarks of a grungy low-budget thriller come to life. With his random, sensationalistic crimes, his startling capture by an angry mob and...

Roger Ebert's passing Thursday at age 70 leaves behind a staggering body of work: He reviewed as many as 285 movies a year, spent decades as a fixture on TV and published 17 books. Following are but a few highlights from his prolific career. Ebert began...

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 31 - April 5, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- SERIES Gruden's QB Camp Jon Gruden...

Halle Berry plays a 911 operator in "The Call," a surprisingly tense, effective thriller. Pretty teenage Casey (Abigail Breslin, no longer "Little Miss Sunshine") is abducted by a stranger in a parking structure. Locked in a car trunk, she manages to...

Representing a slightly skewed take on 2004's "Cellular," crossed with a lobotomized "The Silence of the Lambs," Brad Anderson's high-concept thriller "The Call" would be an unremarkable bit of women-in-peril dreck were it not for two distinguishing...

The big screen's most formidable mama's boy is coming to TV. Norman Bates, the deranged character of "Psycho" fame, is proving movie stars aren't the only ones hunkering down to the small screen — some of cinema's fictional personas are also...

I abhor violence. As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict. From the terrifyingly premeditated to the unfortunately accidental, those images still have the...

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced on Thursday its nominations for its 2012 awards. Leading the way, with five nominations each, were productions of August Wilson's "Jitney," "Silence! The Musical" and Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."...

It's my final column of the year and, for that matter, the new millennium — not to mention of all time. Unless it isn't. I'm so confused. Anyhow, let's look at the highs and lows of 2012 — not that you have much choice if you're going to...

I will take Jodie Foster's 6 minutes and 40 seconds of unfiltered passion, confusion, confession and love, so much love, over anything else anyone in Hollywood has said in a very, very long time. The occasion was Sunday night's Golden Globes, and as the...

One of rock music's true icons recounts his life and times en route to Toronto concerts - which wrapped up a world tour - in a classic Crown Victoria with director Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs"). The engrossing combination of interview and...

"Lawless" is one of those movies where the supporting characters are halfway interesting and the main character is in no way interesting. In the early moments of the film you'll meet intriguing characters played by Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Jessica...