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PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES
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,...
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HIT ME ONE MORE TIME
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...
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BYE-BYE TOONTOWN? (VINTAGE COLUMN)
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...
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THE MAN FROM ’60S TV
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.
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THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
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...
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THE WIZARD OF ODD
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.
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VINTAGE COLUMN: 70MM ...
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...
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THE BLUES BROTHERS
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...
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MAX IS BACK AND STILL MAD
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...
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VINTAGE COLUMN: ADULTS ARE …
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...
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HARRY AND SON
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...
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TRAPPED BY THE MORMONS
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...
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SPARE PARTS
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...
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BOX-OFFICE PURSUIT
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...
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VINTAGE COLUMN: HOLLYWOOD MARKETS …
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...
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BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
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...
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‘AVENGERS’ WITH A VENGEANCE
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....
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VINTAGE COLUMN: FILM EXCESSES
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...
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TOOTSIE
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...
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FAITH AND FANTASY
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...
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