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.
Each of this weekend’s wide releases underperformed studio predictions, but there’s one bit of news worth noting. In limited release, P.T. Anderson’s latest drama, ‘The Master‘, crushed an indie recor...
The only new films that I’d care to see this week aren’t playing anywhere near me… for now. I’m certain that the majority of you are limited to the same wide releases that I am. They’re not awful opti...
If old man Biff Tannen gave me a box office almanac from 2015 that claimed that ‘The Possession’ would be the top movie for two consecutive weekends, I wouldn’t have believed the old kook. However, with such a we...
I’m a snob when it comes to television – not just because I think that 99.9% of TV programming is a complete waste (which I do), but because I have to watch so many shows, that when I finally get to watch something that I wa...
Although the month of September will be peppered with some promising new movie releases, this week isn’t. Only two films open wide. I saw one at Sundance. The other, despite starring several very familiar faces, is completel...
I don’t understand what it is about Labor Day that draws so few people to their local cinemas. The similar holiday Memorial Day, located at the beginning of summer, brings hundreds of million of dollars worth of revenue. So ...
As a sign of how low studio expectations may be, not a single of this week’s three new wide release movies will hit more than 2,700 screens. Considering that the year’s last successful opening was ‘The Expendable...
Even though box office grosses slipped between 39 to 52%, this weekend’s Top 4 line-up is exactly the same as last weekend’s. The three major new releases pathetically debuted in the #7, #10 and #12 spots.
I find it an utter tragedy when a movie takes an exceptionally good idea, yet through execution doesn’t fully meet its potential. For example, the concept of ‘The Happening‘ is fantastic: a contagion is passed ar...
Here it comes, the bitter flavor of post-summer movies. Not all of this weekend’s new film releases appear to be like the usual impending September drivel, but unfortunately most of them do.
Talk about a light weekend at the box office. Almost none of the movies, new or old, hit their projections. The most noteworthy statistic of the week is that ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ crossed the domestic $400 million ma...
With summer drawing to a close, the studios offer up a huge spread of variety this weekend. We get a family flick about a kid who grows from a garden, a stop-motion movie about a kid who sees dead people, a musical drama that will...