For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 Editor’s Note: Although it is thought of as a holiday film, since it is set during over Thanskgiving, it seems a bit off to have ‘Planes,...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 It’s a weekend of R-rated openings — every new film on the schedule has an R rating. Good luck out there. “Hitman: Agent 47” (R) is...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: Although unconfirmed at this writing, rumor has it that Disneyland will be razing Toontown for its new Star Wars Land. Roger...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 An adaptation of a vintage TV series, a low-budget Mormon comedy and a rap musical biography lead new movies in theaters this weekend. ...

   For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 22, 2015 Robert Montgomery gets top billing in “They Were Expendable” (1945, b/w), but today second-billed John Wayne is the draw. The...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 22, 2015 This week’s new releases include a futuristic imaginary world, ghosts in the suburbs, and lions and tigers and cheetahs, oh my. ...

   For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 22, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: My column in the Deseret News this week is about widescreen movies on DVD and Blu-ray. This July 8, 1990, ‘Hicks on...

    For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 15, 2015 The first movie to be adapted from a “Saturday Night Live” skit was “The Blues Brothers” (rated R for language), which was...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 15, 2015 The only major-studio flicks this week are two sequels and a remake, or maybe that’s two remakes and a sequel (not sure how to classify “Mad...

  For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 15, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s hard to believe that 33 years ago I was complaining in the Deseret News that there weren’t enough movies aimed at...

        For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 8, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: Making its belated DVD/Blu-ray debut on the Olive label this week is the Paul Newman flick...

     For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 8, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: The silent British film “Trapped By the Mormons” (1922) was anti-LDS propaganda upon its initial...

    For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 8, 2015 George Lopez stars in “Spare Parts” (PG-13), a true underdog story about a group of illegal-alien Mexican kids at an Arizona...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 8, 2015 Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Kristen Wiig, Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Marsden (twice) are among the...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 8, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: Citing ‘Striptease’ and ‘The Nutty Professor’ as primary examples, my June 30, 1996, Deseret News column, ‘Hollywood markets...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 1, 2015 It’s a few months after the end of World War II when a one-armed man named Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) gets off a train in the small rundown Western...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 1, 2015 Those Marvel superheroes — the Avengers — are back, and every other movie on the summer schedule decided to capitulate and just get out of the way....

  For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, May 1, 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE: Twas ever thus. Yet another column, this one from Oct. 27, 1996, with the headline “Film excesses often detract instead of...

      For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 24, 2015 It’s tough being a woman in the 1980s, especially when you’re a man. That’s just one of the lessons Dustin...

For Hicksflicks.com, Friday, April 24, 2015 A faith film and a pair of fantasies lead new movies in town this week. “Little Boy” (PG-13) is a faith-based film set stateside during...