Subject: Luke Thompson

• Film Reviews

  Including this week's pick My Country, My Country

  September 14, 2006

• Screamfest

  October 12, 2006

• Babes, Bestiality and Beowulf

  Zemeckis and company give a lowbrow, high-tech makeover to the eighth-century epic

  November 15, 2007

• Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Look, The Perfect Holiday

  Also Lagerfeld Confidential, Man in the Chair and The Protagonist

  December 13, 2007

• Night of the Living Showgirls

  April 17, 2008

• Movie Reviews: The Happening, Poultrygeist, Savage Grace

  Also, Meet Bill, Quid Pro Quo and more

  June 12, 2008

• Film Reviews: Antarctica, The First Basket

  Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more

  November 13, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Hotel for Dogs, Notorious, Paul Blart, Mall Cop

  Also, My Bloody Valentine 3D and Owl and the Sparrow

  January 15, 2009

• Movie Reviews: Dark Streets, Nothing Like the Holidays, Timecrimes

  Also, What Doesn't Kill You, While She Was Out and more

  December 11, 2008

• Movie reviews: House, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Also, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

  Also, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Dear Zachary and more

  November 6, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Filth and Wisdom, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Splinter

  Also, Fear(s) of the Dark, The Other End of the Line and more

  October 30, 2008

• Movie Reviews: High School Musical 3, Passengers, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom

  Also, The Tree of Life, Frontrunners and more

  October 23, 2008

• Film Reviews: Interview, My Best Friend and More

  Also Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox, Tekkonkinkreet

  July 12, 2007

• Film Reviews: Goya’s Ghosts, Cashback, Captivity

  Also this week's pick, Ten Canoes

  July 19, 2007

• Film Reviews: Hot Fuzz, Redline and More

  Also In the Land of Women and the documentary, Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea

  April 19, 2007

• Movie Reviews: Zombie Strippers, Floating Life, Lost in Beijing

  Also, Flight of the Red Balloon, Dark Matter and more

  April 17, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Forever, My Blueberry Nights, My Brother Is an Only Child

  Also The Ruins and more

  April 3, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Boarding Gate, Run Fat Boy Run, Priceless

  Also Superhero Movie, Flawless and more

  March 27, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Doomsday, Drillbit Taylor, Under the Same Moon

  Also Shutter and Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns

  March 20, 2008

• Movie Reviews: College Road Trip, CJ7

  Also Girls Rock!, My Name is Albert Ayler and more

  March 6, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Be Kind Rewind, Men in the Nude, The Signal

  And other Feb. 22 releases

  February 21, 2008

• How She Move, Santouri (The Music Man)

  Also: Undoing, Alice's House, The Air I Breathe

  January 24, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Honeydripper, Half Moon

  And Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem

  December 27, 2007

• Movie Reviews: The Bucket List, Persepolis, The Great Debaters

  Also National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and more

  December 20, 2007

• Film Reviews: Smiley Face, Beowulf, Confessions of a Superhero, Om Shanti Om

  November 15, 2007

• After Dark Horrorfest: Happy Belated Halloween

  Annual program returns with eight new “films to die for”

  November 8, 2007

• Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

  October 25, 2007

• Screamfest 2007

  October 11, 2007

• Film Reviews: The Last Winter, The Jane Austen Book Club

  Also Resident Evil: Exintction, Over the GW, Sea of Dreams, Sydney White and more

  September 20, 2007

• Film Reviews: Delirious, Death at a Funeral, 7 Dias

  August 16, 2007

• Visionfest '07

  August 9, 2007

• Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

  Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Thetaers, The Ritchie Boys and this week's pick, Red Road

  April 12, 2007

• Film Reviews: Meet the Robinsons, Blades of Glory

  Also, The Hills Have Eyes II, Air Guitar Nation and After the Wedding

  March 29, 2007

• Film Reviews

  Incuding Salaam-e-Ishq, Epic Movie, and Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?

  February 1, 2007

• Film Reviews

  Including G.I. Jesus, Smokin' Aces and Verdict on Auschwitz

  January 25, 2007

• Film Reviews

  Including Danielson: A Family Movie, Guru, Primeval and more

  January 18, 2007

• Film Reviews

  Including Freedom Writers

  January 4, 2007

• Film Reviews

  Including Turistas, Van Wilder 2, 10 Items or Less and more

  November 30, 2006

• Film Reviews

  January 11, 2007

• Film Reviews

  Including this week's pick, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

  November 9, 2006

• Film Reviews

  October 19, 2006

• Film Reviews

  October 12, 2006

• Film Reviews

  August 31, 2006

• Film Reviews

  August 17, 2006

• Film Reviews

  June 8, 2006

• Emergency in the E.R.

  July 14, 2005

• Downtown's Always Open (Mostly) Open House

  Photos and text by Luke Y. Thompson “On June 6, 7 & 8, we’ll swing the doors to Downtown LA wide open!” Thus spake the full-page ad in the recent Weekly, and who was I to doubt, or to need a better excuse? I always enjoy myself downtown, yet the last time I spent any time there was a year ago, ostensibly to find my blogger friend Ben Sullivan a brand new cowboy shirt, but also to bid an L.A. farewell to myself and Matt Welch, who were scheduled to move away shortly thereafter. Matt’s

  June 10, 2008

• Pathology Review

  GO PATHOLOGY Crank creators Neveldine and Taylor — who apparently no longer require the luxury of first names — scripted this tale of deranged young doctors in the L.A. coroner’s office who test each other to come up with ever more elaborate murders in hopes of stumping their colleagues as to the cause of death. The duo bring their crazed, anything-goes sensibility to the table, but they aren’t a perfect match with German director Marc Schoelermann, who seems to like his horror more br

  April 18, 2008

• Shutter and Meet The Browns

  SHUTTER Toshio, that malicious, pale little boy from The Grudge, will follow you home with his pissed-off mother in tow and maybe rip your jaw off. Ringu’s watery witch Sadako will reach out from your TV set and paralyze you with her stare of doom. Megumi (Megumi Okina), the roving angry spirit at the center of Shutter, will shoot you icy looks from afar and ruin your wedding photos. Oh, and give you a shoulder cramp. Scared yet? Jane Shaw (Rachael Taylor, the blonde-bombshell hacker from Tran

  March 21, 2008

• Blogging from the LA Film Festival

  O.C. Weekly's Luke Y. Thompson has made the trek up the 5 to watch a bunch of movies, and blog from the Los Angeles Film Festival. Chasing Ghosts and Iranians – June 25 Cool Cats and Bad Kitties – June 24 Dancin' to the Jailhouse Doc – June 23 Lost Girls and Mighty Black Men – June 23 Or read them all at OC Weeky's Navelgazing blog. --------

  June 25, 2007