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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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

• 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... More >>

• It's Complicated

  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 stocking... More >>

• Red Cliff

  published December 3, 2009

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

• Precious

  published November 19, 2009

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

• The Maid

  published November 12, 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 >>

• Crude at the Mayan

  published October 15, 2009

  Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it's thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction,... More >>

• Flick Pick

  published October 15, 2009

  Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it’s thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction,... More >>

• District 9

  published August 13, 2009

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

• Ponyo

  published August 13, 2009

  In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest film by animation... More >>

• 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 >>

• Tokyo Sonata

  published July 30, 2009

  An afternoon breeze blows through an open doorway under the opening titles of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, portending a... More >>

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  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... More >>

• The Hurt Locker

  published July 9, 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 >>

• Public Enemies

  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 >>

• Away We Go

  published June 11, 2009

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

• Goodbye Solo

  published May 7, 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... More >>

• 17 Again

  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 >>

• Adventureland

  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 its... More >>

• The International

  published February 19, 2009

  Tom Tykwer's The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings and inconspicuous... More >>

• Sundance Festival

  published January 29, 2009

  The crowds were thinner, the temperature warmer, and Barack Obama's name mentioned so many times that you might have thought he had assumed... More >>