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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2007 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Best Movies of 2007

  published December 27, 2007

  1. There Will Be Blood: The Texas tea bubbles up from the ground like primordial blood at the beginning of Paul Thomas Anderson's... More >>

• Director’s Cut

  published December 27, 2007

  Tim Burton has taken Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Grand Guignol operetta, hemmed in the narrative, cast confessed nonsingers in the... More >>

• Legend Has It

  published December 13, 2007

  There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is by the movie's star, Will Smith —... More >>

• American Realist

  published November 29, 2007

  Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more... More >>

• Hitman

  published November 29, 2007

  Fresh from creating domestic cyber-anarchy in this summer's Live Free or Die Hard, Timothy Olyphant goes global as top-flight... More >>

• Bob Dylan Isn’t “There”

  published November 22, 2007

  Something about that movie though, well I just can't get it out of my head. But I can't remember why I was in it or what part... More >>

• Badlands

  published November 15, 2007

  Hold still" — it's what the hunters say to the hunted in Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men. The first time we... More >>

• Saw IV

  published November 8, 2007

  In keeping with the series' preference for the literal over the mythic, Saw IV offers no miraculous, Michael Myers-style resurrection... More >>

• Emotional Wreck

  published October 25, 2007

  I gave up after about 100 pages of John Burnham Schwartz's 1998 novel Reservation Road, a typically overwritten and contrived slice of... More >>

• Wide-Open Spaces

  published October 4, 2007

  To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness... More >>

• Jodie Foster, Superhero

  published September 20, 2007

  In the new Neil Jordan movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk radio DJ Erica Bain, who survives a vicious Central Park mugging and becomes an... More >>

• The Invasion

  published August 30, 2007

  Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, reserve it early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney's 1954... More >>

• Nerd Love

  published August 16, 2007

  The latest comic meteorite to hurtle forth from the galaxy of producer Judd Apatow, Superbad is about a couple of chronically... More >>

• Hairspray, Get Back to Your Roots!

  published July 26, 2007

  Did John Waters sell out? Or did our ever-more-metrosexual age merely render him irrelevant? Certainly long before Hairspray took up... More >>

• Dark Arts

  published July 12, 2007

  The magic has returned to the Harry Potter franchise — albeit magic of the old, black variety. The darkest and most threatening by far of... More >>

• Incredible, Edible

  published June 28, 2007

  "Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great." So goes the personal mantra of the late celebrity chef Auguste Gusteau, whose disembodied... More >>

• Now Playing

  published June 21, 2007

  Look up in the sky: It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a giant silver eunuch on a radioactive surfboard! That's more or less the gist of this... More >>

• The Joy in the Bubble

  published June 7, 2007

  Last weekend, as Jerry Bruckheimer's pirates were once again storming the international box office, the Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) bestowed... More >>

• Geekology 101

  published June 7, 2007

  There is a moment early on in "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," the 14th episode of the brilliant but canceled television series Freaks and... More >>

• Full Nelson

  published April 19, 2007

  This week's generically titled studio suspense thriller, Fracture, has the good sense to begin where last week's generically titled studio... More >>

• Glittering Hunks of Trash

  published April 5, 2007

  There exists some debate about audience familiarity with the term "grindhouse," and even a certain confusion about the origins of the word itself... More >>

• Forget Gun Control

  published March 22, 2007

  In the same week that sees Adam Sandler playing a grieving 9/11 widower in Reign over Me, another lone figure reeling from... More >>

• Again with the Serious Face?

  published March 22, 2007

  As Charlie Fineman, a New York dentist who lost his wife and three young daughters in one of the September 11 plane crashes, Adam Sandler sports a... More >>

• Killer Instinct

  published March 8, 2007

  When the editorial-cartoonist-turned-amateur-sleuth Robert Graysmith published Zodiac, his sprawling, meticulously researched account of... More >>

• Date My Mom

  published February 1, 2007

  Though I'm sure it's purely coincidental, the decision to release the Diane Keaton-Mandy Moore rom-com Because I Said So with the... More >>