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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2005 Stories by Luke Y. Thompson

• Little Misses

  published December 29, 2005

  Amid Hollywood's zillion-dollar explosions and computer-enhanced trickery, plenty of quieter, better films sneaked into theaters virtually... More >>

• The Impossible Bomb

  published December 22, 2005

  (Universal) Joss Whedon's film version of his TV series Firefly came and went like a lightning bug in October; the predicted... More >>

• Yuletide Fear

  published December 22, 2005

  The notion that Wolf Creek is opening nationwide Christmas Day brings to mind the scene from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before... More >>

• Love the Sin

  published December 15, 2005

  Sin City (Buena Vista) Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's near frame-for-frame adaptation of Miller's bone-crunching comics finally... More >>

• Lion in Winter

  published December 15, 2005

  If you're a fan of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books, all you need to know is this: Disney has done right by The Chronicles of... More >>

• Sweat Along with Russell

  published December 8, 2005

  Cinderella Man (Universal) Back in the Great Depression, boxing matches only cost a nickel, and the ring was uphill both ways. That's... More >>

• Torah! Torah! Torah!

  published December 8, 2005

  You'd think anyone possessed of the notion that "the Jews" collectively think and act alike need only look at, say, wrestler Bill Goldberg,... More >>

• Homewreckers on DVD

  published December 1, 2005

  Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox) The pairing of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, both in real life and on celluloid, is so obvious as... More >>

• Weighting

  published December 1, 2005

  For those of us who dug Rob McKittrick's recent comedy Waiting..., Just Friends offers up some good news: Ryan Reynolds and... More >>

• A Very Long Run

  published November 17, 2005

  Born to Run: 30th Anniversary Three-Disc Set (Columbia Home Video) The centerpiece of this three-disc boxed set isn't... More >>

• Fire Flies

  published November 17, 2005

  The part with the dragon is really cool. Might as well cut to the chase, right? It's not as though you need anybody to tell you the basic... More >>

• Bum Rap

  published November 17, 2005

  About halfway through Get Rich or Die Tryin', the new movie starring rapper 50 Cent (a.k.a. Curtis Jackson) and loosely based on his... More >>

• Torah! Torah! Torah!

  published November 17, 2005

  You'd think that anyone possessed of the notion that "the Jews" are one monolithic whole that thinks and acts alike need only take a look at, say,... More >>

• Private Dicks

  published November 10, 2005

  As a screenwriter, Shane Black has built a reputation on action movies featuring mismatched partners. Crazy Mel Gibson and aging Danny Glover in... More >>

• Aboard Game

  published November 10, 2005

  Pay attention, Disney: This is how you do a family film right. Neither pandering nor dull, Zathura plays exactly like a... More >>

• Pluck Off

  published November 10, 2005

  Chicken Little is a groundbreaking movie in more ways than one. Not only is it Disney's first in-house all-computer-generated... More >>

• MirrorMask

  published October 27, 2005

  Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's mandate from the Jim Henson Company was to take four million dollars and create something in a similar vein to... More >>

• Gettin'

  published October 27, 2005

  Talk about striking while the iron is hot: It's been only a year since Saw became an instant cult hit, as well as a topic of debate among... More >>

• Requiem for a Dreamer

  published October 20, 2005

  DreamWorks is so anxious to have you believe in its latest family movie that the words "Inspired by a True Story" are actually part of the title.... More >>

• Keira, Get Your Gun

  published October 13, 2005

  Her name is Domino Harvey, and she is a bounty hunter. If you've seen even one TV spot or theatrical trailer for Domino, you've... More >>

• Store Wars

  published September 15, 2005

  When one goes to see a movie called El Crimen Perfecto, it might seem unlikely that the title of this Spanish film has been altered... More >>

• Art of Rebellion

  published September 8, 2005

  A rich family returns to its nice home after a vacation, but something isn't quite right. The place has been ... burgled? No, not quite. The... More >>

• Spelunkheads

  published September 1, 2005

  Viewers of those VH1 nostalgia countdown shows are familiar with the term awesomely bad, denoting a song one hates to love because it's... More >>

• Assault 'n' Prepper

  published September 1, 2005

  Remember Nick Cannon? For a while there he seemed to be the next big young heartthrob, right after starring in the marching-band movie... More >>

• Grizzly Fate

  published August 25, 2005

  I always cannot understand why girls don't wanna be with me for a long time," says Timothy Treadwell, subject of the documentary Grizzly... More >>