Email Author Luke Y. Thompson

Awards

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 5, 2007

  "Fight Club"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 5, 2007

  "Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 20, 2006

  "Unreal Estate"

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2008 Stories by Luke Y. Thompson

• The Day the Earth Stood Still

  published December 11, 2008

  As in the original 1951 film by Robert Wise (but with little regard to Harry Bates's original pulp short story "Farewell to the Master"), the... More >>

• Capturing the Castle

  published December 4, 2008

  It really shouldn't have been so hard to make a decent Punisher movie. The Marvel Comics character, who shot to prominence in the late... More >>

• House

  published November 20, 2008

  A few months ago, Lionsgate issued a trailer for Saw V that tried to fake out viewers into thinking they were watching an ad for a... More >>

• Saw V

  published October 30, 2008

  For fans of the deathtrap-redemption horror series and its central figure, John "Jigsaw" Kramer (Tobin Bell) — and realistically, only... More >>

• Now Playing

  published April 17, 2008

  During George W. Bush's fourth term as president, the administration's desire for crises and predisposition toward fuckups leads to the... More >>

• Not Taylor-Made

  published March 20, 2008

  Rare is the star vehicle that is as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor, which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless Army... More >>

• Lousy Movie

  published January 31, 2008

  Perhaps the most oft-quoted line from Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 is "Tonight we dine in... More >>