Luke Y. Thompson

Los Angeles

Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance

Film critic. Toy blogger/photographer. @Slashfilm listicler. Free agent to write/edit. In some documentaries. NOT the Grocery Outlet guy. Half-English atheist

Articles

The 15 Best Action Comedies Of All Time, Ranked

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

When we think of the quintessential movie action hero, we might normally imagine a muscular hero offing the bad guy with a quip, then walking away from an explosion in slow motion. There's a healthy dose of over-the-top absurdity in many big studio action films, but a great action-comedy is a different beast: Equal parts action and consistent humor. The humor should never devalue the action either, which is why every movie we've collected here has real danger and stakes.
The 15 Best Action Comedies Of All Time, Ranked

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Luke Y. Thompson

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The 15 Best TV Shows Of The 1980s

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

Media in the '80s was full of larger-than-life personalities, and TV was no exception. From high-concept action to star-driven crime solving and even confined comedies, bigger was usually better. Some of the best shows just kept growing, and a couple of the titles on this list of the best 1980s TV shows are still around (or at least have been revived very recently). Those that didn't last nonetheless made their mark on pop culture at large.
10 Best Fake TV Shows From Other Movies And TV Shows

3 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

We don't normally watch TV to watch other people watching TV, but when the satire is sharp or the allegory strong, the fictional shows within some of our favorite shows and movies can be funnier, more extreme, or even more transformative than any that would possibly exist or be greenlit in reality.
The 15 Best Monster Movies Of All Time, Ranked - SlashFilm

3 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

Ever since we first learn about dinosaurs as kids, the idea of monsters is fascinating. More powerful and fantastical than regular animals, they inhabit the closet space of our minds and dark corners of imagination. It's a bummer to grow up and realize that creatures like Bigfoot and Nessie probably don't exist, but it's a blast to see movies in which the only limits to the large, dangerous things we can see are the filmmakers' creativity.
15 Actors Who Struggled To Find Roles After Successful Movies

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

A great role can make a career... if there's a decent follow up. A good actor makes you believe they are the character, but sometimes, if they make you believe too well, it becomes impossible to see them as anyone else — and that turned out to be the case for many of the actors on this list.
What Happened To The Cast Of Revenge Of The Nerds?

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

"Heeh! Heeh! Heeh!" With a wheezy laugh and goofy grins, "Revenge of the Nerds" took 1984 by storm. In a theatrical year dominated by Axel Foley, Indiana Jones, Gizmo, the Ghostbusters, and Mr. Miyagi, it was a raunchy college comedy for the older kids, promoting the triumph of the intelligent and the uncool over the strong and the sexy.
15 Actors Who Faced Backlash For Accepting Controversial Roles

2 months ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

Oh, for the life of a movie star! To be able to pretend for a living, and in return face the adulation of an adoring public! Except, of course, when one doesn't. No actor sets out to make a failure, and few seek to be hated, but many over the years have taken on roles that showered them in backlash. Whether it was the role itself that was deemed inappropriate or their particular performance of it, some actors have been associated with roles that risked alienating huge chunks of the public.
What Happened To The Cast Of Leave It To Beaver After The Finale?

2 months ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

There may be no more archetypical American family sitcom than "Leave it to Beaver." Even character names became archetypes, as "Ward Cleaver" instantly connotes a firm-but-fair perfect father, and a June Cleaver type would be assumed a wholesomely beautiful housewife and mother. Family problems, drawn from the writers' real lives, usually proved solvable, and the Cleaver clan generally provided the model of the family that the viewer would like to have.
The Worst Thing Each Main Character Of Star Trek: The Original Series Has Done

2 months ago | slashfilm.com | Luke Y. Thompson

The main crew of the original "Star Trek" are not, by most stretches of the imagination, anti-heroes. They're the good guys, traveling through space in the service of exploration and peace. They're a diverse bunch who all get along...usually. If Starfleet were real, James Tiberius Kirk and his crew would be in its heroes hall of fame. Nobody, however, is perfect.