Email Author Scott Foundas

Awards

• 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

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

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

• 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

• John Woo's Red Cliff Delivers, Even in Shortened Form

  published December 31, 2009

  After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did not. The most expensive movie... More >>

• Clint Eastwood Tackles Mandela and the Hereafter

  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 >>

• Best Movies of the Decade

  published December 24, 2009

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

• Fantasy Meets Harsh Reality as Rob Marshall Takes on a Fellini Classic in Nine

  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 1/2,... More >>

• Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin Can't Save It's Complicated

  published December 24, 2009

  Once more into the breach goes writer/director Nancy Meyers to show us what women really want, this time with Meryl Streep as a Santa Barbara... More >>

• A Single Man

  published December 24, 2009

  A triumph of art direction over actual direction, fashion designer Tom Ford's debut feature is nothing if not a master class in sartorial... More >>

• Disney Offers Its First Black Princess and the Frog, but It's Still a Whitewash

  published December 3, 2009

  Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), that peculiar cultural institution known as the Walt... More >>

• Precious Locates the Heart and Hell of Its Heroine's Struggle

  published November 19, 2009

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

• Wes Anderson Finds Perfect Fit With Animation in Fantastic Mr. Fox

  published November 19, 2009

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

• The Fourth Kind Is No Kind of War of the Worlds

  published November 5, 2009

  Seventy-one years after Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time... More >>

• An Education and Its Star, Carey Mulligan, Get Good Marks

  published October 29, 2009

  Danish director Lone Scherfig's An Education is a seemingly benign, classily directed year-I-became-a-woman nostalgia trip that conceals... More >>

• New in Film: Zombieland

  published October 1, 2009

  The zombie movie — that evergreen vessel for all manner of social and political allegory — gets stripped down to its "Holy shit!... More >>

• Thingamabob Versus Machine

  published September 10, 2009

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

• The Final Destination Offers at Least One New Idea

  published August 27, 2009

  Fatality lurks around every ceiling fan, shampoo bottle, and espresso machine in the fourth entry in New Line Cinema’s improbably... More >>

• District 9 Uses Alien Invasion as an Apartheid Metaphor

  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 >>

• Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler Are Together at Last in Funny People

  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 your... 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 grim,... More >>

• Mann on the Run

  published July 2, 2009

  As Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger surveys the clientele of a chic Chicago eatery in a key scene from Michael Mann's... More >>

• Staggering Something

  published June 18, 2009

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

• New in Film

  published April 23, 2009

  Earth Abig-screen, family-friendly (well... friendlier) version of the enthralling BBC/Discovery series Planet... More >>

• New in Film

  published April 16, 2009

  The Golden Boys You can feel yourself growing older in the 90 minutes it takes to watch this horrid piece of filmed dinner theater... More >>

• Great America

  published April 2, 2009

  Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg... More >>

• New in Film

  published March 26, 2009

  The Haunting in Connecticut There's no rest for the dead — or the living — in this laughably hokey haunted-house... More >>

• Borderline Offensive

  published March 19, 2009

  Haven't we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer/director Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over... More >>