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.
Isn’t it great how much Frank tears down Dennis and Dee for not being his real kids? ‘The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore’ opens with Frank, Mac and Charlie burning now-useless photos from his old family albums. Wh...
How embarrassing is it for new releases that ‘The Lion King’ is #1 again? For the second week in a row, the 3D re-release of a 17-year-old movie has dominated the box office. Only falling 26.6% in attendance, ‘Th...
January and September are two of the weakest months of the year for quality movies, but September has something that January doesn’t: – at least one pre-awards season contender. Opening this week is 2011’s September co...
At first glance, ‘Moneyball’ may look like just another sports movie with star power. In reality, it’s a romantic story about a man and his passion for the game. As odd as that may sound, it works perfectly on ev...
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news last week that Duncan Jones’ sci-fi thriller ‘Source Code‘ is headed to CBS in the form of a new TV series. Because little is known at this point, it’s unclear whether ...
The ‘Sunny’ gang is back for a new season and things are… odd. While Dennis, Charlie and Dee seem the same, something is different with Mac and Frank. For starters, Mac is grossly overweight and Frank is in love with a...
I sure didn’t foresee the weekend being dominated by a 3D re-release of a 17-year-old animated movie – especially one whose new 3d conversion is receiving a Diamond Edition Blu-ray release in just two weeks.
Earlier this week, I headed over to the Gateway Megaplex in Salt Lake City, Utah for an advance screening of the new Brad Pitt baseball drama ‘Moneyball’. (While I’d love to talk about ‘Moneyball’ now...
I love it when general audiences walk into a widely-released indie-style movie expecting a standard genre flick and walk out scratching their heads, not exactly sure what they just watched nor how they feel about it. If you don...
Most of the negative early reviews for ‘Straw Dogs’ seem to have one thing in common – each reviewer made up his or her mind prior to seeing it that the movie would be worthless. With a closed mind, anyone familiar wit...
The weekend following Labor Day is usually known as one of the worst of the year. Two of the four movies opening this weekend tanked, one was slightly off track, and the other not nearly as successful as it should have been – all ...
If the box office numbers from the last few weeks haven’t tipped you off by now, let me break the news to you that summer is over. Instead of each weekend featuring an anticipated blockbuster or two, we’re now getting ...