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.
The theatrical release calendar has drastically evolved over the last few years. Where December used to be a dropping ground for big winter films, it now seems that big releases avoid it in an attempt to steer clear of the latest ...
Without any big new movies in wide release, the weekend’s box office Top 5 remains unchanged. Most titles held over well, but the real news came from the new limited releases. The numbers for two of the three are so good tha...
Only one major new movie launched over Thanksgiving. Considering that it wasn’t a game-changer that other releases would need to stay away from, it’s odd that nothing big opens this weekend to challenge it. Instead, we...
Hollywood has a lot to be grateful for this weekend. For one, there weren’t any new big sexual assault claims made over Thanksgiving. What a relief. The cherry on top of that great news is that the box office thrived.
While the American Thanksgiving holiday usually brings a few big movies that draw out fatigued Black Friday shoppers and families who can’t stand to be around one another any longer, this year only offers one new wide releas...
Warner Bros. and DC may have finally hit their stride with ‘Wonder Woman’, but as this weekend showed, moviegoers are still slightly leery of the direction the DC Cinematic Universe is headed. This showed in the domest...
After being the subject of rumors galore, the follow-up to last year’s ‘Batman v. Superman’ is finally here. Whether it will have any clout in the U.S. is up in the air. However, that doesn’t really matter ...
As expected, hordes of moviegoers opted again to see Marvel’s latest superhero flick, driving the third ‘Thor’ movie to greater heights in its first ten days than either of its predecessors saw over their entire ...
Just like your local Walmart, movie theaters are putting out their Christmas content well in advance of the holiday season. We’re ten days into November and we already have our second festive feature of the year.
Between summer’s ‘Guardians’ sequel and this weekend’s new ‘Thor’ movie, the MCU harvest has been great for Disney this year. The ‘Bad Moms’ sequel also had a decent opening, but isn...
Who dares go against the almighty Thor? None. The only other wide movie release of the week opened two days ahead of Marvel’s latest.
Box office returns have been absolutely wretched since the release of ‘It’ in early September. A mix of lazy movies and competition from streaming original content (like the new season of ‘Stranger Things’)...