Email Author Scott Foundas

Awards

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

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

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

  "Eastwood on the Pitch"

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  2009 Film Issue

• 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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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

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  COVER STORY

  Year in Film: Director of the Decade

  published December 24, 2009

  On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while... More >>

• Year in Film: Grounded

  published December 24, 2009

  Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. "If we were in a small... More >>

• Year in Film: Three Critics' Top Three

  published December 24, 2009

  Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars and... More >>

• Year in Film: Three Critics, One List, Ten Best

  published December 24, 2009

  1. The Hurt Locker: The decade's strongest Iraq movie is also the year's finest action flick, not to mention... More >>

• Director's Block

  published December 24, 2009

  There's no city-clogging traffic jam in Nine, the musicalized version of Federico Fellini's movie-about-moviemaking urtext 8... More >>

• Something's Gotta Give

  published December 24, 2009

  Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It's Complicated, Meyers's biennial... More >>

• Good Housekeeping

  published December 3, 2009

  Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid, it's closer to an... More >>

• What a Fox

  published November 26, 2009

  Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it's less surprising that Wes Anderson... More >>

• Back in Action

  published November 26, 2009

  John Woo spent a decade navigating the big-studio minefield — longer than most foreign auteurs last in Hollywood before throwing in the... More >>

• Diary of a Sad Black Woman

  published November 12, 2009

  In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother... More >>

• Higher Learning

  published October 29, 2009

  The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course... More >>

• Truth in Advertising

  published October 22, 2009

  The title of Shane Meadows's Somers Town refers to the bleak, working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow of London's St... More >>

• Thingamabob vs. Machine

  published September 10, 2009

  Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit, with wooden hands, copper fingers... More >>

• Divide and Conquer

  published August 13, 2009

  The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp's fast and furiously inventive... More >>

• It's a Wacky Life

  published July 30, 2009

  After devoting his first two films as director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids,... More >>

• Set to Explode

  published July 23, 2009

  Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker is a full-throttle body shock of a movie. It gets inside you like a virus, puts... More >>

• Prince of Darkness

  published July 16, 2009

  Don't let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the generally... More >>

• Mann on the Run

  published July 2, 2009

  "They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero... More >>

• Staggering Something

  published June 11, 2009

  Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers's solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More >>

• J'Accuse!

  published June 11, 2009

  Director Kirby Dick doesn't actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in the new documentary Outrage, but his... More >>

• Man Drive Car

  published May 21, 2009

  At 73, the Memphis-born actor, stuntman, former U.S. Marine and Golden Gloves boxer Red West has the stoic, leathery repose of a barfly on a John... More >>

• Sucker Punch

  published May 7, 2009

  The face of Mike Tyson stares out from the screen like a sentry — intent, sober, watchful. The camera sits close, the framing is tight... More >>

• Dito Montiel's Fighting Lacks Punch

  published April 23, 2009

  Writing about A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, the 2006 debut film by director Dito Montiel, I likened it to the sort of crude but... More >>

• 17 Again Is Less Than Zero

  published April 16, 2009

  This much is for sure about the makers of the new Zac Efron picture 17 Again: They know their audience. Scientifically engineered... More >>

• Boxing, Sex and Madness

  published April 9, 2009

  Though he no longer sports the black trunks, sockless black boots and gut-twisting scowl with which he cut such a menacing figure in the ring,... More >>