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.
David Fincher’s adaptation/remake of Stieg Larsson’s international bestseller ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. While the film doesn’t open until Dec...
This weekend featured the worst collective box office total in over three years. The cumulative estimated tally was only $78 million. The last time the totals were this low was the first week of September, 2008, during which ̵...
While the end-of-year season is usually filled with high-quality flicks fighting for award nominations, this December so far isn’t quite reaching the caliber of years past– especially not this weekend’s releases.
Since it started building buzz on the festival circuit and in the U.K. (where it opened nearly three months ago), I, along with many other film lovers, have been looking forward to ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.’ Although...
While I fully respect Jason Reitman for having the ability to uniquely and beautifully put moving images on the big screen, he’s got to quit making Diablo Cody’s screenplays into movies. He’s better than that. It...
Last year, New Line put out the highly successful chick flick ‘Valentine’s Day‘, an ensemble story about more than a dozen people in Los Angeles on the romantic holiday. The result was a formulaic, poor man’...
The Gang returns from Thanksgiving break with ‘Thunder Gun Express’, a real-time action adventure episode that delivers the always-appreciated ‘Sunny’ goods.
My biggest pet peeve about Hollywood is the way that certain celebrities and filmmakers develop hyper-inflated egos. For example, when I was in college, I participated in an over-the-phone roundtable interview with Harrison Ford. ...
Without a single nationwide opener, this weekend’s box office Top 10 isn’t all that far off from last week’s. Some films moved up, some slid down, and some stayed right where they were. When you look at the per-s...
I cannot think of another time in the past few years that there hasn’t been a single nationwide release over a weekend. The widest opener of the week lands on a whopping 54 screens. Most of us won’t have these titles p...
Earlier in the month, Movieline got a major exec to spill his real feelings about a few of his studio’s recent flops. What he said was not only surprisingly honest, but somewhat brutal to the filmmakers and actors who made t...
Was there ever any doubt that ‘Breaking Dawn’ would hold onto the #1 spot this weekend? With nothing much opening this coming week, I’m going to predict that the latest ‘Twilight’ sequel will stay on ...