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

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  COVER STORY

  Clint Eastwood: Ten years of sequels also gave us one hot old man of Hollywood

  published December 24, 2009

  Clint Eastwood: Ten years of sequels also gave us one hot old man of Hollywood 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 >>

• Ten best movies of 2009

  published December 24, 2009

  The ten best movies of 2009 More >>

• It's Complicated: Nancy Meyers can't keep making the same movie over and over again

  published December 24, 2009

  It's Complicated: Nancy Meyers can't keep making the same movie over and over again More >>

• The Princess and the Frog: Disney's first black princess can't escape the ghetto

  published December 10, 2009

  The Princess and the Frog: Disney's first black princess can't escape the ghetto More >>

• Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson and animation are a fantastic fit

  published December 3, 2009

  Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson and animation are a fantastic fit More >>

• Precious: Diary of a sad black woman

  published November 19, 2009

  Precious: Diary of a sad black woman More >>

• An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks

  published October 29, 2009

  An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks. More >>

• Zombieland

  published October 8, 2009

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

• It's Thingamabob vs. Machine in 9

  published September 10, 2009

  It's Thingamabob vs. Machine in 9 More >>

• District 9: Divide and Conquer

  published August 13, 2009

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

• Ponyo: Into the Big Blue

  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: It's a Wacky Life

  published July 30, 2009

  Funny People: It's a Wacky Life 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 generally grim,... More >>

• Public Enemies: 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 >>

• Tyson

  published June 4, 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 >>

• Kirby Dick Outs Closeted Pols in Outrage

  published May 21, 2009

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

• Relive Your '80s Youth in 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 the leg... More >>

• Coraline in Wonderland

  published April 2, 2009

  If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick's 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in... More >>

• Relive Your '80s Youth in 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 the leg warmers... More >>

• Tony Gilroy's Expert Light Touch in Duplicity

  published March 19, 2009

  Whether it's the amnesiac super spy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy... More >>

• Crossing Over Is Borderline Offensive

  published February 26, 2009

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

• Coraline in Wonderland

  published February 19, 2009

  If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick's 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in... More >>

• Bail Out The International

  published February 12, 2009

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