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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2006 Stories by Luke Y. Thompson

• Radical Chick

  published November 16, 2006

  When a red-blooded, macho, flag-waving, Bush-voting, American country music fan looks at a gorgeous blond who also happens to make his kind of... More >>

• Last Resort

  published August 31, 2006

  Granted, this may seem like a jarringly odd comparison, but like the recent dud Phat Girlz, Heading South deals with the hot-button... More >>

• Pause and Effect

  published June 22, 2006

  Click may be the first Adam Sandler movie in which the high concept isn't dependent upon the star. Sandler comedies tend to take his... More >>

• Hell on Wheels

  published June 15, 2006

  Given that John Singleton directed the second movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise, it makes a perverse kind of sense that Justin... More >>

• Vince Charming

  published June 1, 2006

  ou know how in most romantic comedies the best friends are nearly always more interesting than the actual leads we're supposed to care about?... More >>

• Lucky X III

  published May 25, 2006

  When kids of all ages discuss comic books and superheroes, there is inevitably one question that comes up time and again: If that one guy and that... More >>

• Cracked Code

  published May 18, 2006

  You know it's hard out here for a screenwriter. You've got a surefire hit on your hands — an adaptation of the runaway best-seller The Da... More >>

• Welcome to Hooters

  published May 4, 2006

  The most important thing to know about the new movie Hoot, adapted from the children's book by Carl Hiaasen, is that it's co-produced by... More >>

• Charlie & the Shoe Factory

  published April 20, 2006

  Ejiofor plays Simon, AKA Lola, a flamboyant drag queen who gets to sing showtunes, issue snappy putdowns, and look fabulous. (He is not, he... More >>

• When Stars Don't Align

  published April 20, 2006

  Americano (MTI) Before he is due to take a high-powered corporate job, college graduate Chris (Joshua Jackson) heads off... More >>

• Easy Out

  published April 13, 2006

  Believe it or not, The Benchwarmers is so lame that it can't even lay claim to being the best Adam Sandler-produced movie not screened for... More >>

• Diary of a Fat Black Woman

  published April 13, 2006

  There's a certain exuberance, a "You go, girl!" spirit of defiance and self-reliance to the new Mo'Nique vehicle Phat Girlz that's... More >>

• Latino Heat

  published April 6, 2006

  It's difficult to tell from the image on the poster for Take the Lead, but that's not star Antonio Banderas dancing in blue silhouette. In... More >>

• See Also: Vexing

  published March 16, 2006

  The posters for V for Vendetta read: "An uncompromising vision of the future from the creators of The Matrix trilogy."... More >>

• Shandy Everybody Wants

  published March 9, 2006

  It should be too early in the year to expect a good movie, let alone a great one; anything released prior to the Oscars is bound to be forgotten... More >>

• Will in the Way

  published March 9, 2006

  From the stars of Elf, here's a new drama about depression and family baggage! Might not want to bring the kids to this one, lest they... More >>

• He Will Bury You

  published February 23, 2006

  Tommy Lee Jones' feature directorial debut is probably much as you'd expect: a blast of nostalgia that nonetheless accepts the realities of... More >>

• Red Dusk

  published February 23, 2006

  If you're a parent trying to teach your sullen teenaged kids that movies with subtitles aren't all bad, try taking them to see Night Watch... More >>

• Scared Stiff

  published February 23, 2006

  If you have any awareness at all of the existence of Running Scared — no, not the Gregory Hines/Billy Crystal cop buddy comedy, but... More >>

• Dead Funny

  published February 9, 2006

  Let's get right to the point: If you are the type of person who enjoys seeing attractive naked girls meet a hideously graphic demise, there's a... More >>

• Clay's the Thing

  published February 9, 2006

  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks) Not since Finding Nemo has there been a movie... More >>

• Funky Fresh

  published February 2, 2006

  January has earned its reputation as the month in which studios unload all their cheapie horror flicks, but February is the month when we... More >>

• Home Invasion

  published January 26, 2006

  The best thing about Michael Haneke's Caché (Hidden) is the way it draws on contemporary fears without ever mentioning them. The War... More >>

• Origin of Innocence

  published January 19, 2006

  America — and by extension Hollywood — has an obsession with innocence and the loss thereof. Every generation has that moment when... More >>

• God Save the Queen

  published January 12, 2006

  When a movie promises that a character played by Queen Latifah may well die during the course of the action, one might hope that the movie in... More >>