Luke Hicks
Writer, Editor, Film Critic and Journalist at Freelance
film journalist, filmmaker | “Desert Window” | “The Last Q-tip” | “Metataxy” | words: @thefilmstage @pastemagazine @lwlies + | luke.hicks.writes@gmail
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15 hours ago |
avclub.com | Luke Hicks
While Mantle moved to crisp, high-definition, film-digital blends, Macdonald was shifting the undead franchise in a similar direction. The cinematography of 28 Weeks Later seems as if it were trailing Mantle, eavesdropping, and taking notes on his new style. As a result, 28 Weeks Later looks fantastic, and incidentally manages to embody a 2007-ness in its approach.
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1 week ago |
pastemagazine.com | Luke Hicks
Ang Lee is one of film history’s most exceptional cases of career acrobatics.
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2 weeks ago |
thefilmstage.com | Luke Hicks
Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin know no sophomore slump. The best-friend filmmakers––who met acting opposite each other in a commercial 15 years ago and made their feature debut nine years later with bromance bike comedy The Climb––write, produce, and lead their own films with one fresh, unfettered voice.
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3 weeks ago |
thefilmstage.com | Luke Hicks
Tel Aviv native, defector, and auteur Nadav Lapid opens his fifth feature in a catastrophic state of carouse. A filmmaker known for his employment of trademark dance sequences, Lapid is back with an equally visceral but uncharacteristically clubby groove in Yes!, a work whose sarcastically enthusiastic title points to the relentless ridicule and hometown mockery that defines it.
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3 weeks ago |
avclub.com | Luke Hicks
When the couple approached scripts for their first film together, Cooke said they “actually looked at both Drive-Away Dykes and Honey Don’t! and thought Drive-Away Dykes had more humor in it.” They were right. Honey Don’t! is not very funny. It’s more of a smirker, but the occasional bit lands with real comic weight, like the call and response established between Honey and fellow horny detective Marty Metakawich (Charlie Day doing exactly what you’re expecting), the station’s resident moron.
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