For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 17, 2015 After his enormous success as James Bond in 1962 with “Dr. No” and the following year with “From Russia...

     For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 17, 2015 While it’s true that “The Sound of Music” (1965, G) lives up (or down) to its saccharine reputation, there’s a...

        For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 17, 2015 Amy Adams delivers a knockout performance in “Big Eyes” as artist Margaret Keane, famous for her...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 17, 2015 A popular novel adapted for the big screen, along with a sequel to a family film and a G-rated documentary, lead new movies opening around...

       For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 17, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: In this 25-year-old Deseret News column (Oct. 14, 1990), with the headline, 'Old-movie...

           For Hicksflicks.com, April 10, 2015 “The Quiet Gun” (1957, b/w) is a low-budget programmer, an independently produced...

       For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 10, 2015 Buster Keaton was a movie genius during the silent era, and though many place him second to Charlie...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 10, 2015 It’s a birthday month for that ever-youthful freckle-faced singing star of two decades of memorable movies, Doris Day. Depending on...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 10, 2015 A new LDS film from the writer-director of “The Saratov Approach” is playing all over the state (it opened Wednesday), along with some...

   For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 10, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: My inner (nowadays outer) grumpy old man came out in this Dec. 17, 1995, column in the Deseret News, with the...

    For Hicksflicks.com, April 3, 2015 An intelligent but unstable young man with an aggressive fear of being touched and an obsession with clocks is taken to a youth...

     For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 3, 2015 Just in time for Easter, here’s an opportunity to see a Bible story (albeit a fictional one) of the kind we don’t get...

       For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 3, 2015 Burt Reynolds’ cop thriller  “Sharky’s Machine” (1981, R for violence, language, sex) has been...

        For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 3, 2015 Only one major-studio film is opening this week and it’s also the only one going into wide release. That would be the...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 3, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: Ever get the idea that dozens of movies have similarly forgettable titles? That was the subject of “Movie titles echo each...

      For Hicksflicks.com, March 27, 2015 Robert Montgomery was a 40-something A-list leading man with more than 50 films under his belt (including the classic...

    For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, March 27, 2015 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were one of cinema’s most inventive and hilarious comedy teams, a pair of instantly...

      For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, March 27, 2015 For my money, “The Imitation Game” (2014, PG-13) was last year’s best film, a rich, funny, touching and...

  For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, March 27, 2015 The only two studio films opening wide this weekend are an animated feature for kids and a sleazy R-rated farce for grown men that are...

  Gary Oldman, left, Keanu Reeves, 'Dracula'; Uma Thurman, Andy Garcia, 'Jennifer Eight' For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, March 27, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: In a Deseret News...