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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2000 Stories by Luke Y. Thompson

• With Love and Squalor

  published December 7, 2000

  Be not deceived by the Merchant Ivory name attached to Ratcatcher; those in search of repressed emotions among the corseted... More >>

• We'll All Cry Boo-Hoo

  published November 16, 2000

  There once was a man, and he called himself Seuss Who wrote the best children's' books ever produced. With drawings elaborate, ... More >>

• Witch Way Did It Go?

  published October 26, 2000

  Although it must have been a no-brainer to make a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, it was hard to imagine an intelligent follow-up to a... More >>

• The Malcolm X Files

  published October 19, 2000

  Let's be honest: As much as people may complain about Spike Lee's public pontifications on race, or his controversial stances, or his being a... More >>

• Alice in Wonderland

  published September 21, 2000

  At the age of ten, young Martin (Jeremy Kreikenmayer) is forced by his single mother finally to meet the father he has put off seeing every year.... More >>

• Chewing the Fat

  published August 31, 2000

  Amanda Peet has some really large teeth. Seriously. Even given the fact that it's in vogue for hot, young would-be sex symbols to parade their... More >>

• Pep Rally

  published August 31, 2000

  Only the United States could have invented the concept of cheerleading. It takes a unique combination of repressed sex drive and denial to come up... More >>

• Makeup Remover

  published August 10, 2000

  In a perfect world, any documentary about televangelists narrated by RuPaul and a couple of sock puppets would be hailed as the unquestionable... More >>

• Watering Down the Drinks

  published August 10, 2000

  Okay, so there are these beautiful ladies in tight clothes, right? And -- get this -- they serve alcohol while dancing suggestively! Sound cool?... More >>

• Look Who's Losin' It

  published July 27, 2000

  Only in the movies could a kid who looks and acts like Jason Biggs be called a loser. Let's see: charming conversationalist, big smile, washboard... More >>

• Living in a Scream

  published July 13, 2000

  Is there a more bankrupt genre than the parody movie? So many flicks nowadays are so painfully self-aware and referential anyway that there often... More >>

• Heigh Ho, It's Off to Work They Go

  published July 13, 2000

  Call it the second-oldest profession in the world. It's certainly one of the most quintessentially American: Few professions combine sex,... More >>

• What So Proudly We Hail

  published June 29, 2000

  Despite what many believe, it doesn't come down to explosions, star power or millions of greenbacks thrown at the producers. The true indicator of... More >>

• Toons with 'Tude

  published June 15, 2000

  It's the year 3028, and manŠ is an endangered species! (Haven't we heard that somewhere before, like last month?) This time around,... More >>

• Rave On

  published May 11, 2000

  Given that most film studios have multimillion-dollar marketing budgets with which to target 18- to 25-year-olds, it's astonishing how little they... More >>

• Prehistoric Rock

  published April 27, 2000

  When the previews for The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas debuted, one imagines that the same thought entered everyone's mind: A... More >>

• Okie Glamour

  published April 27, 2000

  You're just going to have to accept that Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd are far too glamorous for the roles they inhabit in Where the Heart... More >>

• Boot Camp

  published April 20, 2000

  Why aren't there more submarine movies? It seems like a no-brainer formula for success: claustrophobic setting, invisible enemy whose approach... More >>

• Drug Rehab: The Comedy

  published April 13, 2000

  Rehab, sweet rehab: It's the last resort of the alcoholic, the drug addict and the would-be suicide. Free room and board, lots of tender loving... More >>

• Prepare for Landing

  published March 23, 2000

  Is America ready for the Hong Kong action style? Certainly there are many fans of the balletic, guns-and-martial-arts, fly-through-the-air movies... More >>

• That Wascally Fate

  published March 16, 2000

  What if fate has something horrific in store for you, and you can't escape it? It's an idea that has been around for a long time, from Greek myths... More >>

• Return to Sender

  published March 16, 2000

  Hollywood may be crass when it comes to cloning success, but it's not alone. Take the British Isles, for instance, ever since the success of a... More >>

• Scotch on the Rocks

  published March 9, 2000

  You've got to feel sorry for the Scottish Board of Tourism. First the Loch Ness monster is exposed as a fake, then the nation's film industry... More >>

• Dog Breath

  published March 2, 2000

  Willie Morris's autobiographical novel, My Dog Skip, is a nearly perfect piece of bedtime reading for kids and their parents. Each chapter... More >>

• Browne Sugar

  published March 2, 2000

  If you think the prevailing attitude toward sex in the United States is somewhat backward, consider Ireland of the late 1960s, as depicted in... More >>