Author Archives: Ted Hicks

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About Ted Hicks

Iowa farm boy; have lived in NYC for 49 years; worked in motion picture labs, film/video distribution, subtitling, media-awards program; obsessive film-goer all my life.

My Movie Life: The Early Years, Part 3 – 1954

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Ted Hicks

As stated in Parts 1 and 2, I saw hundreds of films while I was growing up in Iowa. Here are some of the ones I remember from 1954. ________________________________________________________ I was already hooked on Walt Disney films and cartoons … Continue reading →

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My Movie Life: The Early Years, Part 2 – 1953

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Ted Hicks

As I stated in Part 1, I saw hundreds of films while I was growing up. These are some of the ones I remember from 1953. This was the year of 3D and CinemaScope. I remember when the Vista Theater … Continue reading →

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My Movie Life: The Early Years, Part 1 – 1949 to 1952

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Ted Hicks

One of my earliest movie memories is of seeing Bambi and being totally traumatized by the death of Bambi’s mother. Who wasn’t? It fact, that’s the only thing I remember about the film. Since Bambi was originally released in 1942, … Continue reading →

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Movie Poster Potpourri

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Ted Hicks

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 →

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Wind River: “Luck don’t live out here”

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Ted Hicks

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 →

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The Year So Far: Documentaries

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Ted Hicks

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 →

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The Year So Far: Feature Films

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Ted Hicks

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 →

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More Tie-Ins: TV Shows & John Wayne comics!

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Ted Hicks

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 →

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“Dawson City: Frozen Time” – Amazing!

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Ted Hicks

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 →

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Movie Tie-Ins: Novelizations & Comic Books

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Ted Hicks

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 →

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