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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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

• With a blunt and searching Iron Mike, Tyson delivers a surprisingly powerful blow

  published May 6, 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 >>

• Hello, sophomore slump: Dito Montiel's Fighting lacks punch (among other things)

  published April 22, 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 >>

• Judging by17 Again, Zac Efron should stick to musicals

  published April 15, 2009

  This much is certain about the makers of the new Zac Efron picture 17 Again: They know their audience. Scientifically engineered for... More >>

• Goodbye Solo

  published April 15, 2009

  As William, a taciturn senior who seems to be planning for his final days, veteran character actor and former Elvis Presley bodyguard Red West... More >>

• The Black Balloon

  published April 15, 2009

  Produced for what was likely a day’s Botox budget on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, the auspicious Oz import, The Black... More >>

• Fresh Lyme

  published April 15, 2009

  There’s nothing new under the suburban sun (save for infectious ticks) in Derick Martini’s Lymelife, whose weighty... More >>

• The summer of our '80s youth in Adventureland

  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 >>

• Sin Nombre

  published April 1, 2009

  Before setting pen to paper, Sin Nombre writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga purportedly rode the rails in the company of real illegal... More >>

• Tokyo Sonata

  published March 25, 2009

  An afternoon breeze blows through an open doorway under the opening titles of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, portending a coming storm... More >>

• Tôkyô Sonata

  published March 25, 2009

  Like a bottled message cast from the shores of an economy whose implosion precipitated our own, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tôkyô Sonata... More >>

• Play Me the Music

  published March 25, 2009

  Like a bottled message cast from the shores of an economy whose implosion precipitated our own, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tôkyô... More >>

• The Bourne Comedian

  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 >>

• Crossing Over: Borderline Offensive

  published March 11, 2009

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

• The International's assets are troubled indeed

  published February 11, 2009

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

• Coraline in Wonderland

  published February 4, 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 >>

• Sundance Lies Low

  published January 28, 2009

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

• Recession Fest

  published January 21, 2009

  What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul... More >>

• Che, Cannes, and High-Def Video

  published January 14, 2009

  Steven Soderbergh tends to travel light — even when he has a movie camera tucked inside his suitcase. That's how the filmmaker set off on... More >>