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

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Wallowing in a Pitt of Hokum

  published December 25, 2008

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious—a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man born in the twilight of... More >>

• Critical Mass: The Best Movies 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 >>

• Gran Torino

  published December 25, 2008

  Walt Kowalski growls a lot—a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring... More >>

• 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 >>

• Slumdog Millionaire, A Feel-Good Movie That Actually Works

  published November 20, 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... More >>

• 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... More >>

• Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace

  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 >>

• Miracle at Santa Anna

  published September 25, 2008

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

• Your Friends & Neighbors

  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 >>

• In the Heat of the Knight

  published September 4, 2008

  And so another summer movie season comes to an end, not with a bang but a whimper—what else to call four new releases (Babylon... More >>

• Mighty Aphrodites

  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... More >>

• Small Change

  published July 31, 2008

  Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you... More >>

• Men Will Be Boys

  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

  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

  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 >>

• Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a Thing to 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 >>

• Preachy Liberal Guilt Dwarfs Any Good Intentions in The Visitor

  published May 1, 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 >>

• George Clooney's Ode to Screwball Comedies of Yore, Leatherheads, Almost Scores

  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 question... More >>

• Iraq War Movie Stop-Loss Does Its Best Not to Mention the War

  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 >>

• Band of Brothers

  published February 28, 2008

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

• We'll Pass on the 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 >>

• Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey Mash-Up Fool's Gold is Pitiful

  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 Fool's... More >>

• Sunset on Sundance

  published January 31, 2008

  Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Sugar, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (and was... More >>

• More of the Same in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream

  published January 17, 2008

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