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.
‘Seven Psychopaths’ is one of those brilliant crime movies that nobody will see… on the big screen, at least. Imagine ‘Snatch’ set in the U.S. with a huge array of batshit crazy characters. Just about every...
When ‘Argo’ walks away with some sort of Oscar gold next February, I really want Ben Affleck to stand in front of the media and flip all of his naysayers the bird. Once the butt of many jokes, nobody laughs at him now....
This weekend proved two things: 1) Liam Neeson’s first ‘Taken’ picture has a lot more fans than I ever realized, and 2) Parents are more likely to take their kids to an Adam Sandler family-friendly monster flick ...
What’s up with this weekend’s movies? Isn’t October supposed to mark the beginning of the good movie season? Tim Burton gives us a stop motion remake of one of his old short films, and Liam Neeson – at the whoppi...
Like many, I’ve been pretty burned out on Tim Burton. What I want is another tale along the lines of ‘Big Fish‘. Even though ‘Sweeney Todd‘ was pretty great, it wasn’t exactly a departure from B...
The Hollywood studios must be sighing in relief today – especially Sony, which scored both the top two box office spots over the weekend. After several consecutive poor weeks (one of which was a record-setting low with the worst-e...
We’ve made it! The September slump is over! Movies open this weekend that are actually worth seeing!
Since I was on vacation last week, I tried to see as many movies as early as possible before I left. I RSVP’d to the press screening for ‘Pitch Perfect’ without knowing a single thing about the movie. When I told...
Like many who saw it, I fell in love with Rian Johnson’s directorial debut, ‘Brick’. Unfortunately, I found his sophomore effort ‘The Brothers Bloom’ sorely lacking. He’s directed two episodes o...
The only reason that I looked forward to ‘House at the End of the Street’ at all was because the film stars Oscar-nominee Jennifer Lawrence. Sure, I have a crush on her – but more importantly, I think that she’s ...
For a baseball flick, there are dozens of phrases that I could turn into plays-on-words to describe the failure that is ‘Trouble with the Curve’. Personally, I’d like to start this review off by saying, “Th...
Even with four studio titles opening wide this weekend, I’m most anticipating the expansion of Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’. Last weekend’s record-setting limited release has perked my already ...