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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2008 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Kate and Leo reunite for suburban hell that is Revolutionary Road

  published December 31, 2008

  No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why... More >>

• Humbled Mickey Rourke makes gutsy return to Hollywood

  published December 31, 2008

  "I hated the '90s. The '90s fuckin' sucked," says professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson early on in The Wrestler—and he... More >>

• Will Smith falters with depressed character in phony-feeling film Seven Pounds

  published December 17, 2008

  Two years ago, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated of recent... More >>

• Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire lets you leave the theater a winner

  published November 19, 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 loot means being... More >>

• Film Highlight: Synecdoche, New York

  published November 5, 2008

  If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata and walked through the adjoining door of the interstellar... More >>

• Aptly timed Body Of Lies is tempting terror thriller

  published October 8, 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 air,... More >>

• Lakeview Terrace: A Black-and-White Film

  published September 17, 2008

  Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial in Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to... More >>

• Summer film: Batman saves the season, a little Sex doesn't hurt

  published September 3, 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 A.D. ,... More >>

• Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces

  published August 13, 2008

  Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do... More >>

• Swing Vote offers change you can't believe in

  published July 30, 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 wish it... More >>

• Step Brothers refuses to grow up

  published July 23, 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 >>

• Batman returns in disturbing but dazzling blockbuster

  published July 16, 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 >>

• Two average Joes compete for the American dream in The Promotion

  published June 11, 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 >>

• Cannes Film Festival: A Polish auteur—and Mike Tyson!—stage comebacks

  published May 28, 2008

  Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns,... More >>

• Film Highlight: OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

  published May 21, 2008

  OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIESEdina Cinema, starts FridayCloser in spirit to the... More >>

• Film Highlight: Body of War

  published May 14, 2008

  BODY OF WAR Lagoon Cinema, starts Friday Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and... More >>

• Film Highlight: Iron Man

  published April 30, 2008

  IRON MANarea theaters, starts FridayNothing if not a product of his moment, Tony Stark, the... More >>

• Leatherheads stopped at fourth and inches

  published April 2, 2008

  LEATHERHEADSdirected by George Clooneyarea theaters, starts FridayWhen... More >>

• Iraq war movie goes apolitical

  published March 26, 2008

  STOP-LOSS directed by Kimberly Peirce area theaters, starts Friday Considering... More >>

• Multi-Perspective 'Vantage Point' Is Mega-Annoying

  published February 20, 2008

  VANTAGE POINTdirected by Pete Travisarea theaters, starts FridayRemember the 1985... More >>

• There is no gold at the end of Fool's Gold

  published February 6, 2008

  FOOL'S GOLD directed by Andy Tennant area theaters, starts Friday When a friend... More >>

• Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance

  published January 30, 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 >>