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Author Archives: Ted Hicks
Movie Poster Potpourri
There’s no particular theme or category for this collection of film posters, other than they’re dynamic and dramatic. Some are foreign posters for American films, some are for films both well-known and obscure, and some are just weird, but they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film posters
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Wind River: “Luck don’t live out here”
This is a good one. Based on his terrific screenplays for Sicario (2015) and Hell or High Water (2016), I was more than ready for Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River. It does not disappoint. After seeing Wind River on opening day … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Film, Music
Tagged Elizabeth Olson, Gil Birmingham, Graham Greene, Jeremy Renner, Taylor Sheridan, Wind River Indian Reservation
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The Year So Far: Documentaries
There have been so many great documentaries in recent years. It’s an incredibly flexible art form. The following fourteen are the best of what I saw from January through June of this year. ______________________________________________________ Abacas: Small Enough to Jail (Steve … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Documentaries, Film, Home Video, Streaming, TV & Cable
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The Year So Far: Feature Films
The following feature films are some of the best that I’ve seen in the last six months. We’ll see how this shakes out at the end of the year, after six more months of movies. But in the meantime… Alien: … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Home Video, Streaming, TV & Cable
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More Tie-Ins: TV Shows & John Wayne comics!
Novelizations and comic book adaptations in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s weren’t limited to motion pictures alone. Television provided a large array of material to be novelized and turned into comics. Most of these, though not all, were derived from … Continue reading
“Dawson City: Frozen Time” – Amazing!
Dawson City: Frozen Time is unlike any film you’re likely to have seen before. The discovery and subsequent restoration of 533 reels of 35mm nitrate film prints buried as landfill in a swimming pool provides the way into director Bill … Continue reading
Movie Tie-Ins: Novelizations & Comic Books
NOVELIZATIONS Film novelizations have been around since the 1920s, but it was in the 1950s, with the proliferation of mass-market paperbacks, that they began to appear in large numbers. This is when I started reading them. Novelizations, as you would … Continue reading
