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.
As the last big holiday weekend of the summer, Labor Day’s box office totals are never anything to write home about. However, this year did a bit better than the usual trend, especially for an unlikely foreign release.
When the widest movie release of the week is a boy band concert documentary, you just know that the weekend’s going to blow.
This wasn’t a very good weekend for new movies. All of the new releases were outgrossed by older carryovers. In first place, ‘The Butler’ added another $17 million to its haul, bringing it a ten-day total of $52....
Here we go, folks. August is the final month of summer blockbusters. I would hardly define any of this weekend’s movies as “blockbusters,” but they’re much closer than next weekend’s releases, so this...
Of this weekend’s four wide releases, only one walked away a success. One of the other three did all right, but the others flopped hard.
There have been nearly twenty sequels, spin-offs or reboots since April – some good, some not so good. This weekend gives us yet another, as well as three original movies, each opening on more than 2,000 screens.
Lindsay Lohan is back. And I don’t mean “back on her feet.” I mean “back at being trashy and gross.” Go figure. Bret Easton Ellis’ latest venture will make you want to immediately take a shower ...
This weekend was a mixed bag. Two R-rated movies went head-to-head, and the over-population of family films continued to compete against each other. Collectively, their numbers were big, but individually, none truly impressed.
This weekend gives us a variety of new movies. Pick your poison, but be warned: The most unlikely movie might be the only one that’s actually worthwhile.
Have Americans (somewhat) come to their senses? Despite following up a $563 million worldwide winner, those little blue bastards got destroyed this weekend!
Of the two movies with “2”s in their titles opening this week, you’ve got to be out of your smurfing mind to choose the blue pill.
As ‘First Class’ showed, the ‘X-Men’ franchise still has a great deal of forward momentum. Unfortunately, this weekend’s box office returns suggest that Wolverine’s ‘Origins’ prequel...