Luke Y. Thompson

Bold biplane-pilot lives need not have been wasted back in 1933, if only the military had known then what all video-game players came to understand in the ’80s: The best way to defeat a giant ape perched atop a high building with a hot chick in his hands is to......

Seems hard to believe that Jacques Thelemaque and his scrappy collective of independent movie creators at Filmmakers Alliance have been “green-lighting themselves” for a full decade now, but come Wednesday, they’ll be celebrating with a party in honor not just of their own survival in a crowded marketplace, but also......

Despite what some are saying, it really isn’t a huge deal that, in his first live-action incarnation, heroic truck-robot Optimus Prime has a new paint job and a moving mouth under that face shield of his. Considering that he became a giant mechanical gorilla in at least one cartoon incarnation,......

{mosimage} Trying to describe the cinema of Japanese animator Satoshi Kon is a mighty task. Upon seeing Kon’s 1998 feature directorial debut, Perfect Blue, Roger Corman said, “If Alfred Hitchcock partnered with Walt Disney, they’d make a picture like this.” After a screening of Kon’s latest, Paprika, at a Hawaiian......

{mosimage} “Ten people will fight. 9 people will die. You get to watch.” So proclaims the poster for The Condemned, a movie executive-produced by World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon, and starring self-professed “whup-ass machine” Stone Cold Steve Austin and oft-suspended former soccer star Vinnie Jones. So can someone explain......

Nathan Baesel is a drug dealer. Not the bad kind, but rather a medical courier who works for his father, a pharmacist. He’s also a movie star — a job that doesn’t, as yet, pay his bills, though that should change once Hollywood gets a gander at Behind the Mask:......