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 typically hate sports movies. I cannot get past the fact that they’re all the same. A flawed character or team of characters always has to make a big change that cleans up that flaw in order to make it to a single big game...
If you’ve seen ‘Outbreak‘, you’ve already seen the unpretentious, less cluttered, less manipulative version of ‘Contagion’. Considering that ‘Contagion’ is a star-studded affair dire...
For the third weekend in a row (and its fourth weekend in theaters), ‘The Help‘ has dominated other openers to hold the #1 spot at the box office. According to Box Office Mojo, the last film to reign at #1 for three co...
Whenever movies aren’t screened widely for the press, that’s usually a bad sign. I cannot think of a single not-screened-for-press film that turned out to be a winner (with the possible exception of some small indie fl...
From the first trailer (which started playing in theaters ages ago), I’ve always thought that ‘The Debt’ looked terribly boring. Aside from two unfittingly fantastic moments of classic, intense espionage action, ...
Once again, the somber racial drama ‘The Help’ has taken first place at the box office. Although The Hollywood Reporter claims that Hurricane Irene, which hit the East Coast this weekend, cost $25 million in weekend lo...
Writer/producer/director Luc Besson is often hit-or-miss. Although not always the case, if he writes and produces a screenplay but doesn’t direct the film (as happened here), it’s usually a “miss.” While ...
Oddly, none of the three nationwide openers this week will appear on more than 2,500 screens. We could very well end up seeing ‘The Help’ or ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ come in first at the box office ...
The top two films at the box office this week were also the top two films last week. After reigning for two-weeks in a row, ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ fell to second place as ‘The Help’ rose to first....
I don’t know how much longer major film studios will be pushing prequels, sequels and remakes, but the return to original creativity can’t come quickly enough for me. I’m not saying that every prequel, sequel or ...
I cannot lie; I haven’t seen the original ‘Fright Night’ since I was a little kid. The only thing that I remember about the film is a scene where Charley Brewster walks around a dimly-lit room brandishing a cross...
If you’re a frequenter of Yahoo’s main page, then you probably already know that one Utah homebuilder, Bangerter Homes, hired a lobbyist and eventually secured the rights to build a replica of the iconic home from Disn...