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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 26, 2014
The 1979 comedy-thriller "The Great Train Robbery" is a most enjoyable...
ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 26, 2014
The expected box-office bonanza this week is a new Denzel Washington thriller, which, believe it or not, is a remake of an old TV series, along with...
FILM CREDITS: WHO ARE THOSE GUYS? SO WHAT ON EARTH DOES A BESTPERSON REALLY DO?
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 26, 2014
EDITOR'S NOTE: Former Deseret News cartoonist Calvin Grondahl drew the illustration above for this Sept. 14, 1984, Weekend section cover story...
SPENSER: FOR HIRE
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 19, 2014
Robert B. Parker's Spenser (no first name, please) is a late-20 th century Boston gumshoe, a...
DR. STRANGELOVE
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 19, 2014
Stanley Kubrick's classic anti-nuclear war satire, "Dr....
ELMER GANTRY
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 19, 2014
Kino Lorber is busy. The Blu-ray/DVD label is releasing new upgraded Blu-rays of vintage...
WHERE WAS IT YOU LEFT ME?
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 19, 2014
The six movies opening in the Salt Lake area this weekend are a disparate group, including yet another teens-in-peril-in-a-bleak-future yarn, yet another...
THE ART OF THE MOVIE POSTER
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 19, 2014
At the Cinemark Theaters in Draper, Utah,...
THE GREAT IMPOSTER
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 12, 2014
Tony Curtis was born to play "The Great Imposter" (1961,...
THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 12, 2014
Jerry Lewis followers consider "The Nutty Professor" (1963) to be the apex of his career....
THE GREAT RACE
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 12, 2014
The late, great Blake Edwards is most famous for the "Pink Panther" movies, although he...
2 FAMILY FILMS? SCHOOL’S IN SESSION
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 12, 2014
It does seem ironic that we have had so many family films in local theaters over the past couple of weeks now that school's in session and families...
AS A MOVIE CRITIC, I GOT MY WIFE HOOKED ON THE FILM ESCAPE
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 12, 2014
EDITOR'S NOTE: I stumbled across this column that was published in the Deseret News on...
ACES HIGH
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 5, 2014
The World War I anti-war drama "Aces High" (1976, PG) is set primarily during one week at a British airbase in France and follows the training...
FORREST GUMP
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 5, 2014
"Forrest Gump" (1994, PG-13) earned Tom Hanks the second of his two back-to-back best-actor Oscars (he won the previous year...
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 5, 2014
Just released by Kino Lorber in a new Blu-ray edition...
IS IT STILL AUGUST?
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 5, 2014
The first week of Hollywood's fall season hasn't brought us any major studio releases, as if we were extending August until fall officially arrives...
FEW WOMEN’S ROLES, UNLESS THEY CREATE THEM ON THEIR OWN
Annette O'Toole, left, and Margot Kidder in 'Superman III'
For Hicksflicks.com, Sept. 5, 2014
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FOREVER FEMALE
A perhaps forgotten film, the comedy-drama "Forever Female" (1953, b/w) is a good backstage tale...
GHOSTBUSTERS
For Hicksflicks.com, Aug. 29, 2014
"Ghostbusters" (1984, PG) is one of those movies that just gets better with...
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