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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2008 Stories by Scott Foundas

• The Searcher: Clint Eastwood, America's director

  published December 24, 2008

  You've made the first movie of the Obama generation!" exclaimed an audience member, as he rushed up to Clint Eastwood after a recent screening... More >>

• Mickey Rourke climbs back in the ring with The Wrestler

  published December 24, 2008

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

• Old Man Pitt: The curious case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  published December 24, 2008

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the twilight of... More >>

• Critical Mass: The best movies of 2008

  published December 24, 2008

  Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our... More >>

• It's a Miserable Life: Will Smith encores his Pursuit of Happyness

  published December 17, 2008

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

• Game-Show Masala: Bollywood meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire

  published December 10, 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... More >>

• Lies We Can Believe In: Ridley Scott's latest is the post 9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve

  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, but... More >>

• Your Friends and Neighbors: Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace

  published September 17, 2008

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

• Mighty Aphrodites: Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

  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 little... More >>

• Change You Can't Believe In: Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote

  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 >>

• Men Will Be Boys: With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.

  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 >>

• Heart of Darkness: Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns

  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 >>

• Supermarket Sweep: Male fulfillment and lack thereof, on full display 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,... More >>

• A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival

  published June 11, 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 >>

• Leatherheads, George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

  published April 2, 2008

  When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note not even a question... More >>

• Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the Iraq war

  published March 26, 2008

  Considering that the war in Iraq has proved to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed suit,... More >>

• No treasure at the end of Fool's Gold, a terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up.

  published February 6, 2008

  When a friend recently told me that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting romp Fool's... More >>

• Sundance 2008's buzz is barely audible.

  published January 30, 2008

  Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Sugar, which premièred in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (and was... More >>

• Buyers Beware

  published January 16, 2008

  Welcome to the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Circumvent the Writers' Strike. But seriously folks: As Park... More >>

• Eye of the Beholder

  published January 2, 2008

  At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the American painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the... More >>