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

• Clint Eastwood tackles Mandela and the hereafter

  published December 30, 2009

  On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while... More >>

• Up in the Air director Jason Reitman gets grounded

  published December 30, 2009

  Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. "If we were in a small... More >>

• Nancy Meyers's It's Complicated churns out weak women

  published December 23, 2009

  Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It's Complicated, Meyers's biennial stocking-stuffer... More >>

• Sebastián Silva's The Maid challenges our sympathies

  published December 16, 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 >>

• Film Highlight: Fantastic Mr. Fox

  published November 25, 2009

  Working with his Life Aquatic co-writer (and The Squid and the Whale director) Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson has added an... More >>

• Precious packs wallop with story of obese black woman's struggle

  published November 18, 2009

  In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old;... More >>

• An Education and star Carey Mulligan get good marks

  published October 28, 2009

  The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she... More >>

• Film Highlight: Secret of the Grain

  published October 14, 2009

  In this remarkable third feature by the French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche, a 61-year-old shipyard worker in the port city of... More >>

• Somers Town gets at the heart of the working class

  published September 23, 2009

  The title of Shane Meadows's Somers Town refers to the bleak, working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow of London's St.... More >>

• Shane Acker's 9 creates animated post-apocalyptic hellscape

  published September 9, 2009

  Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature, 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and... More >>

• District 9 uses alien invasion as apartheid metaphor

  published August 12, 2009

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

• Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler together at last in Happy People

  published July 29, 2009

  After devoting his first two films as director, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids,... More >>

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince delivers innocent muggle pleasure

  published July 15, 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 >>

• Film Highlight: The Hurt Locker

  published July 8, 2009

  Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Strange Days), the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker is a full-throttle body... More >>

• Public Enemies is fast and furious look at John Dillinger's life and crimes

  published July 1, 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 >>

• Outrage documentary exposes closeted conservatives

  published June 17, 2009

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

• Mike Tyson documentary packs powerful punch

  published April 8, 2009

  Though he no longer sports the black trunks, sockless black boots, and gut-twisting scowl with which he cut such a menacing figure in the ring,... More >>

• Adventureland is a fast-paced journey through rites of passage

  published April 1, 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 >>

• Tony Gilroy's Duplicity stays one step ahead

  published March 18, 2009

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

• Film Highlight: Coraline

  published February 4, 2009

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

• Sundance Film Festival quietly turns 25

  published January 28, 2009

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

• Gran Torino: A summation of all that is Eastwood?

  published January 7, 2009

  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 >>