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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2002 Stories by Luke Y. Thompson

• Fishing for Compliments

  published December 26, 2002

  Here's a tricky little movie to review, as it's going to divide audiences fairly drastically. Conservatives, especially black ones like Larry... More >>

• Beat It

  published December 12, 2002

  Like the similar, funnier Bring It On, Drumline is intent on proving that marching band participants are genuine athletes. Fair... More >>

• That's Better

  published December 5, 2002

  Robert De Niro loves an acting challenge, but lately those tests have been less along the lines of, "Can I convincingly play a boxer?" and more... More >>

• Love Hurts

  published December 5, 2002

  Here's an original idea for a movie: a low-budget, digital video look at the search for love in New York City, in which person A wants to connect... More >>

• Half-full Frontal

  published November 28, 2002

  The smart sci-fi fan knows that, technically speaking, Steven Soderbergh's Solaris is not a remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's film at... More >>

• After Schlock

  published November 21, 2002

  The advantage to making a Christmas movie is that, no matter how mediocre your final product is, it's all but guaranteed to show up on at least... More >>

• Half Bad

  published November 14, 2002

  If the title is a Jeopardy question, then the answer might be "How does Steven Seagal come across these days?" or maybe "How will you feel... More >>

• All Right Now

  published November 7, 2002

  The question "All right?" is asked of every character, on many occasions, throughout Mike Leigh's latest film, All or Nothing. In... More >>

• Columbine Harvester

  published October 24, 2002

  If you're a fan of the baseball-cap-wearin', Nader-votin', muckrakin', best-sellin', corporation-confrontin' son of a gun known as Michael Moore,... More >>

• The New Deal

  published October 24, 2002

  You ever notice those people? You know, the so-called "stand-up comedians"? Who are those people? What's the deal with them? And what does... More >>

• Crawl, Cate, Crawl

  published October 17, 2002

  Give Tom Tykwer considerable credit for knowing he couldn't possibly outdo Run Lola Run, his frenetic breakthrough that made critics cheer... More >>

• Just Not Enough

  published October 17, 2002

  Part watered-down Neil LaBute, part Seinfeld episode (especially the one in which George's fiancee licks the poison glue and dies) and part... More >>

• Sub Scary

  published October 17, 2002

  Usually a master of creating aliens that go bump in the night, director David Twohy (Pitch Black) herein takes a turn toward ghosts and... More >>

• Alice Unchained

  published October 3, 2002

  I might as well just come out and say it: Spirited Away is the best movie I've seen all year. Though it would be a masterpiece in... More >>

• Cut Rate

  published September 12, 2002

  For those with any kind of pop cultural memory, it's more than a little surprising to see Ice Cube in a movie like Barbershop. Not... More >>

• Bobby Love

  published September 5, 2002

  Like Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro is one of those guys who can make just about any material inherently enjoyable. Also like Eastwood, he will... More >>

• Fully Developed

  published August 29, 2002

  When Robin Williams was America's favorite funnyman in films like Mrs. Doubtfire, it always felt a little strange admitting that the guy... More >>

• Fear the Creeper

  published August 29, 2002

  If you're looking for a horror film to revitalize the genre, keep looking. If you're looking for a horror movie with believable characters...yes,... More >>

• Thunderbald

  published August 8, 2002

  In case you didn't happen to read the tagline on the ubiquitous poster, Xander Cage, also known as XXX because he's tattooed his... More >>

• Who Cares?

  published August 1, 2002

  It's not exactly a good sign when a movie starring Tim Allen, Christian Slater and Richard Dreyfuss gets dumped into one or two art-house theaters... More >>

• Steppin' Out

  published July 25, 2002

  The advent of digital filmmaking has been essentially a good thing, allowing cameras to go places their larger, celluloid-spooling cousins cannot,... More >>

• Rockin' On

  published July 25, 2002

  A film that posits a world in which giant fake-looking anthropomorphic bears walk among us without people noticing that they look any different... More >>

• Sunny Delight

  published July 11, 2002

  It's daunting to hear that John Sayles' new film, Sunshine State, is almost two and a half hours long and mostly consists of calm... More >>

• Bet on Black

  published July 4, 2002

  Like a jawbreaker that changes color every few seconds you suck it, MIIB: Men in Black II delivers a quick buzz, lots of stuff to... More >>

• Robin Hoodwinked

  published June 20, 2002

  It's easy to love Robin Tunney--she's pretty, and she can act--but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices. The Craft was a... More >>