About Luke Hickman
From a young age, Luke has been obsessed with film. He studied film at Utah Valley University from 2005-08 and he reviewed movies for the weekly student publication "The College Times"/"UVU Review." Luke critiques films for "The Stubbs Show" on 101.5FM KEGA and on The Reel Place, a website that he co-created with fellow High-Def Digest writer Aaron Peck.
Each year, the tentpoles get bigger and bigger. With Vin Diesel and his crew of gearheads-turned-secret-agents back at it with a $250 million eighth installment, almost no other movies dare open against it.
Despite three new movies and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ snapping at its heels, ‘The Boss Baby’ held the top spot at the box office for a second week. Each of the new releases saw decent returns, but with ‘...
Disney’s expensive ‘Beauty and the Beast’ remake brought audiences out in droves last month. With the summer season now seemingly starting in April, next weekend delivers ‘The Fate of Furious’. The mi...
One of this weekend’s new movies managed to do the impossible. Not only did it wildly out-gross expectations, it put down the Beast. The week’s other wide release underperformed, while each of last week’s titles ...
‘Beauty and the Beast’ has owned the box office for the last two weeks. This weekend, a live-action anime adaptation and DreamWorks’ latest family flick will try their best to kill the beast, but it’s not l...
No surprises here, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ sang its way to the top of the box office again this weekend. Of the two TV-to-big-screen adaptations, the one that actually has a fan base had a solid debut, while the needles...
After a few weeks that were light on new releases, this weekend offers a trio of big movies. Oddly, these include a double-dose of bad TV shows that have made a leap to the big screen. Knowing that may make the third title, a sci-...
This weekend, Disney continues doing what it now does best – remaking the same movies over and over again. After all, why take a risk when you have a proven formula already waiting in the vault? On the indie front, Danny Boyle and...
These days, sequels, spin-offs, reboots and remakes are no longer guaranteed box office success as they were when they started flooding the market a decade ago, but that doesn’t mean studios are about to stop trying. Warner ...
March releases used to be no big deal, but studios are now pumping out huge pictures into nearly every month. (January is still a bit of wasteland, but even that’s also picking up.) Last weekend, ‘Logan’ slashed ...
Fox took a risk by giving an R-rating to the latest installment of the ‘X-Men’ universe, but it totally paid off. Meanwhile Lionsgate’s faith-based drama played well, but couldn’t beat the sophomore weekend...
This weekend brings one of the year’s best films. No, I’m not talking about the faith-based picture with a title that would lead you to believe it’s a horror movie. Nor am I talking about the teenage ‘Groun...