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 consider myself a collector, but I’m not an obsessive collector. I don’t feel the need to collect everything associated with something that I love. I’m a specific collector. For example, I love SteelBook packag...
No surprise, Marvel’s latest comic book venture dominated the box office both domestically and internationally this weekend. In comparison, everything else just did okay.
Technically, this weekend only has one major new wide release – a superhero should-be blockbuster. However, two more limited releases also expand nationwide. These three and a few other small titles offer quite an array of viewing...
I’m completely burned out on Marvel’s one-note Cinematic Universe, and really hadn’t looked forward to the follow-up to ‘Thor’. While I enjoyed what Kenneth Branaugh did with the Norse god, and though...
While one movie topped the domestic box office (which we’ll get to shortly) this weekend, the international opening of ‘Thor: The Dark World’ really made some noise. Marvel’s Nordic superhero threw his hamm...
This weekend offers three big movies, each storming more than 3,000 screenings. One’s an acclaimed sci-fi novel turned blockbuster hopeful, one’s a geriatric version of ‘The Hangover’, and one’s a CG ...
It’s about time that a film this year is worth raving about!
My old man is quite a fan of “hard” science fiction. The sci-fi that I read as a teenager – Heinlein, Asimov, Dick and so on – was due to his influence. I remember him praising ‘Ender’s Game’ from tim...
After three straight weeks at the top of the charts, ‘Gravity’ was finally dethroned this week by an unlikely R-rated comedy. Even so, the space thriller’s decline was still light (32%) and it went on to earn ano...
This weekend, the ‘Jackass’ guys pull a ‘Borat’ and Ridley Scott directs Pulitzer-winner Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay. Also, award-winning lesbians.
After blindly walking into ‘The Counselor’ with absolutely no knowledge of the story, aware only that it was written as Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay, I had to chew on it a lon...
For the third weekend in a row, ‘Gravity’ held strong atop the box office. Not only did it crush the other new movie releases, the sci-fi drama barely slipped in attendance, dropping only 28%. (Last weekend, it fell 23...