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.
I have an unapologetic love for Cameron Crowe’s body of work. With that in mind, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that my review for ‘We Bought a Zoo’ is going to be positive. However, before you jump to con...
If you go into Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’ expecting anything more than a World War I drama from the perspective of a horse, you’ll probably be sorely disappointed. However, if you go into ‘War Hor...
As the last big movie push for the year, this week’s releases are spread throughout the entire week. One movie opened Tuesday night, two open and one expands Wednesday, two open and two expand on Friday, and three open on Su...
November and December are the busiest months out of the year for reviewers who take part in film critics’ associations. We not only have to screen all the current releases, we also have to cram in every notable film we misse...
When I learned early on that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ was being animated via motion capture, I immediately began dreading the experience, mainly due to memories of Bob Zemec...
Theater attendance was down for the third week in a row this weekend. Like many others, I assumed that the release of three major sequels would pick the box office back up. Oddly enough, the film four entries deep into its franchi...
With the previous two ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’ movies, I was fortunate enough to miss those screenings. Sadly, as much I tried finding a way to avoid ‘Chipwrecked’, I just couldn’t get out of it. Her...
Setting aside Roman Polanski’s personal affairs, the guy is a stellar filmmaker. If it weren’t so, he wouldn’t have a career anymore. But here he is still making acclaimed films with A-list actors as if nothing e...
Please note: While ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ technically opens today, it can only be seen on IMAX, XD and other larger-than-usual premium screens until the film expands on December 21st. Even with the infl...
For the third film in a row, Guy Ritchie has proven that he’s back in fine form. ‘A Game of Shadows’, the follow-up to Ritchie’s 2009 ‘Sherlock Holmes’ flick, magnifies everything that worked in...
Bring on the holiday gobbledygook! This weekend, three sequels (two of them among the most anticipated films of the year) and two indies take stage. Let’s get the worst of the sequels out of the way first.
The end of the seventh season of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ is soon upon us. Last week, we saw Part 1 of ‘The High School Reunion’, a hilarious in-depth look into the Gang’s formative y...