Author Luke Y. Thompson

Across four decades, Michael Bay hasn't really changed. But it's remarkable how much the attitude toward him has. When he started out as a filmmaker in the Tony Scott mold under Jerry Bruckheimer's umbrella,...

The standard formula in every live-action adaptation of a Mark Millar comic (Wanted, Kingsman, Kick-Ass) is thus: reasonably ordinary person discovers he's surprisingly good at a thing, but not quite good...

Though I'm pretty sure it made my personal ten best list in 2001, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a near-insane gamble for a major studio film. The hook was that it was a movie making the first serious...

Godzilla vs. Kong finally bows on Blu-ray, 4K, and DVD this week, though if you have HBO Max, odds are you've watched it a time or two at home already. The 4K adds a more muted color filter to the...

America's oldest theme park actually turned 100 years old last year, but with every theme park forcibly closed, the planned big birthday party couldn't happen as intended. This week, however, it reopened...

It's a minor miracle that a small, independent horror film that's basically a rip-off of Seven (I absolutely refuse to write it with the number 7 in the middle of the word, sorry) combined with the climax...

John "Jigsaw Killer" Kramer (Tobin Bell) died in Saw III, but it took five more movies to permanently bury him, narratively speaking. At a certain point, a story is going to run out of feasible flashbacks...

It probably goes without saying, but let's reiterate for those who have (reasonable) trouble keeping up with movies in a non-theatrical environment: Freaky, out now on Blu-ray and digital, very much wants...

Playsets are a rare thing for toy lines in this day and age, as they cost a lot to create, and take up shelf space that most retailers would rather stock with smaller items that sell faster. But to their...

RLJE Films Full disclosure right off the bat: I am generally a fan of David Ayer. I'm wearing a Suicide Squad T-shirt as I type this. And odds are you like him more than you think -- did you remember that...