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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2008 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Best Films of 2008

  published December 25, 2008

  Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our... More >>

• The Curious Case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  published December 25, 2008

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• It's a Miserable Life in Seven Pounds

  published December 18, 2008

  Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most... More >>

• Bollywood Meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire

  published December 11, 2008

  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More >>

• Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

  published November 6, 2008

  If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and... More >>

• We Can Believe In Body of Lies

  published October 9, 2008

  A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the... More >>

• Very Minor: Miracle at St. Anna

  published September 25, 2008

  On some level, you've got to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put... More >>

• Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace

  published September 18, 2008

  Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned... More >>

• Oh, Canada

  published September 11, 2008

  If this year's Toronto International Film Festival had a subtitle, it could be "When Good Directors Go Bad." At least that's what it has felt... More >>

• Mighty Aphrodites in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

  published August 14, 2008

  Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More >>

• Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

  published July 24, 2008

  I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More >>

• Heart of Darkness: The Dark Knight

  published July 17, 2008

  What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City — if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so... More >>

• Supermarket Sweep in The Promotion

  published June 12, 2008

  The screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it and... More >>

• A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

  published May 22, 2008

  Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns,... More >>

• Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man Is a Marvel

  published May 1, 2008

  Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I... More >>

• Unwelcome: The Visitor

  published April 24, 2008

  Stop me if you've heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban-American and a grieving mother walk into each other's lives,... More >>

• Fourth and Inches: Leatherheads

  published April 3, 2008

  When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note not even a... More >>

• Apolitical Theater in Stop-Loss

  published March 27, 2008

  Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed... More >>

• The Band's Visit Is Smart and Dry

  published February 21, 2008

  Earlier this fall, The Band's Visit made headlines after being disqualified as Israel's foreign-language submission to the 2008... More >>

• Multi-Perspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

  published February 21, 2008

  Remember the 1985 movie version of the Parker Brothers whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of multiple endings? Well,... More >>

• Pity: Fool's Gold

  published February 7, 2008

  When a friend recently told me that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson ­fortune-hunting romp... More >>

• It's more of the same in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream

  published January 24, 2008

  "I do think the writing is pessimistic — all that stuff about life being a tragic experience," says Angela Stark (played by newcomer... More >>

• Grace Is Gone

  published January 10, 2008

  Eleven months after winning the screenplay and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, writer-­director James C. Strouse's... More >>