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Author Archives: Ted Hicks
What I Saw Last Year – Best Feature Films 2020
A year without blockbusters or movie theaters. 2020 was a radically different year for everything, not just movie-going, and 2021 still is. If someone had told me at the outset that theaters would be closed nearly a year later, I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Feature films, Film posters, History, Home Video, Streaming, TV & Cable
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Happy New Year 2021 – To Infinity and Beyond!
2020 has felt like the longest 10 years of my life. I sure won’t miss it. The new year has got to be better, right? A vaccine that will hopefully bring the pandemic under control and get us back into … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Feature films, History, Home Video, Streaming, TV & Cable
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Off the TV Screen – A Brief Diversion + Posters
While taking pictures of movies on a TV screen might seem like something one would do to pass the time while sequestered at home during a pandemic, these were taken sometime in 1978 for reasons that escape me now, though … Continue reading
Posted in Feature films, photography, TV
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Connery and “The Hill”
When I learned that Sean Connery had died on October 31 at age 90, it felt for a moment as if things had slipped out of gear. Later I read that Connery’s wife of 45 years, Micheline Roquebrune, had said … Continue reading
Posted in Feature films, Film posters, History, Home Video, Streaming, TV & Cable
Tagged Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ian Hendry, Ossie Davis, Roy Kinnear, Sean Connery, Sidney Lumet, World War II
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Halloween – Odds & Ends
Here is a rather loosely organized collection of Halloween-appropriate images. None of them are half as scary as the 2020 presidential election, believe me. _______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ “Unusual times demand unusual pictures.” This ad copy could have been written today. _______________________________________________________ … Continue reading
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“Seconds” – Starting Over
Note: This contains some spoilers, so proceed accordingly. The first time I saw John Frankenheimer’s Seconds I didn’t like it. This was in October 1966 while I was undergoing basic training at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. … Continue reading
Dieselpunk – Retro Futures
As often happens, when I was recently looking online for one thing, I came across something else entirely that took over my attention. These are images depicting such things as flying locomotives and aircraft carriers, which are highly detailed, simultaneously … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Comics, Feature films, History, Streaming, TV & Cable
Tagged 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Blade Runner '82, Brazil, Cyberpunk, Dark City, Dieselpunk, Mad Max: Fury Road, Metropolis, Mister X - comic, Mortal Engines, Neuromancer, Retro Futurism, Robocop, Science-Fiction, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, Steampunk, The Rocketeer, Victoria era, William Gibson, World War I, World War II
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Flying Fortresses in My Life – Supplemental
For a deeper dive, here are materials additional to part one. ___________________________________________________ This is an excellent documentary on the B-17 with includes reminiscences by WWII veterans. It runs just under an hour. ____________________________________________________ Target for Today is a feature-length documentary … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Documentaries, Feature films, Film posters, History, Home Video, Non-Fiction, photography, Streaming, TV & Cable
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