Email Author Scott Foundas

Awards

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 9, 2009

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  2009 Film Issue

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 10, 2009

  "Eastwood on the Pitch"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 10, 2008

  "The Visitor"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 14, 2008

  "Diary of the Dead"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "Benjamin Button"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 30, 2007

  "Iron Butterfly"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2007

  "Born Identities"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 9, 2007

  "Badlands"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

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2007 Stories by Scott Foundas

• The Year In Film

  published December 27, 2007

  Absolutely, unequivocally, this has been The Year of The Apatow: Judd got Knocked Up to the tune of $150 million (at the box office... More >>

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

  published December 27, 2007

  At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the... More >>

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

  published December 20, 2007

  Here's the thing: Tim Burton pulled it off. Nearing the end of an uncommonly strong year for American movies, he's taken a hallowed classic of... More >>

• I Am Legend

  published December 13, 2007

  here are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is by the movie's star, Will Smith — but... More >>

• One of Us Must Know

  published November 29, 2007

  Something about that movie, though, well I just can't get it out of my head/But I can't remember why I was in it or what part... More >>

• I'm Not There

  published November 22, 2007

  Something about that movie though, well I just can't get it out of my head / But I can't remember why I was in it or what... More >>

• No Country for Old Men

  published November 15, 2007

  "Hold still" — it's what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men. The first time we hear... More >>

• Sidney Lumet's Long Journey

  published November 1, 2007

  "There's a reason I've had some good pictures and other guys will never have good pictures," Sidney Lumet says matter-of-factly on a recent... More >>

• Reservation Road

  published October 25, 2007

  I gave up after about 100 pages of John Burnham Schwartz's 1998 novel Reservation Road, a typically overwritten and contrived slice of... More >>

• Into the Wild

  published October 4, 2007

  To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness... More >>

• The Brave One

  published September 13, 2007

  In the new Neil Jordan movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk radio DJ Erica Bain, who survives a vicious Central Park mugging and becomes an... More >>

• The Nanny Diaries

  published August 23, 2007

  Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie and television director who told me... More >>

• Superbad

  published August 16, 2007

  The latest comic meteorite to hurtle forth from the galaxy of producer Judd Apatow, Superbad is about a couple of chronically unpopular... More >>

• The Popcorn King

  published August 9, 2007

  It's a bright March afternoon on the set of Rush Hour 3, and the mood is tense. After shooting last winter on location in Paris, the... More >>

• Hairspray

  published July 19, 2007

  Did John Waters sell out? Or did our ever-more-metrosexual age merely render him irrelevant? Certainly long before Hairspray... More >>

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  published July 12, 2007

  The magic has returned to the Harry Potter franchise — albeit magic of the old, black variety. The darkest and most threatening by far... More >>

• Ratatouille

  published June 28, 2007

  Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great." So goes the personal mantra of the late celebrity chef Auguste Gusteau, whose disembodied... More >>

• Geekology 101

  published June 7, 2007

  There is a moment early on in “Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers,” the 14th episode of the brilliant but canceled television series Freaks... More >>

• The Joy in the Bubble

  published May 31, 2007

  Last weekend, as Jerry Bruckheimer's pirates were once again storming the international box office, the Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) bestowed... More >>

• Is There a Doctor in the House?

  published May 24, 2007

  I never gave much thought to the subject of health insurance until, in October of 2005, an odd swelling in my groin prompted me to make one of my... More >>

• Fracture

  published April 19, 2007

  This week's generically titled studio suspense thriller, Fracture, has the good sense to begin where last week's generically titled... More >>

• Grindhouse

  published April 5, 2007

  There exists some debate about audience familiarity with the term "grindhouse," and even a certain confusion about the origins of the word itself... More >>

• The Wind That Shakes the Barley

  published April 5, 2007

  The young men move about the muddied hillside engaging in a friendly afternoon game of that national pastime known as hurling. On their way home,... More >>

• Reign Over Me

  published March 22, 2007

  As Charlie Fineman, a New York dentist who lost his wife and three young daughters in one of the September 11 plane crashes, Adam Sandler sports a... More >>

• Shooter

  published March 22, 2007

  In the same week that sees Adam Sandler playing a grieving 9/11 widower in Reign Over Me, another lone figure reeling from... More >>