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The Eccentric Tony Kaye Weighs in on Abortion Debatenew
As it turns out, Lake of Fire is serious and provocative and heartfelt and probably as close as any movie on an issue this vast and irresolute can come to being an exhaustive survey.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
10-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lake of Fire, Tony Kaye
Sean Penn Journeys 'Into the Wild'new
To these eyes, Into the Wild is an unusually soulful and poetic movie that crystallizes Christopher McCandless as the glittering enigma he was, that allows us to decide for ourselves whether he was the spiritual son of Thoreau, Tolstoy and John Muir, or the boy most likely to become Theodore Kaczynski.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
Jodie Foster Dishes Up Rough Justicenew
Yes, The Brave One is that movie: the one with the posters of America's once-upon-a-time sweetheart posed artistically against a yellow background, her hand pressed contemplatively against her salon-styled hair, and the tag line "How Many Wrongs to Make It Right?"
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
09-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Jordan, The Brave One
The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisisnew
Like the book, the movie never finds a dramatic center, hopscotching between Nanny-Grayer bonding sessions, Nanny's flirtations with the upstairs neighbor known as Harvard Hottie, and the Xes' gradual progression toward becoming the Exes.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-24-2007 |
Reviews
'Superbad': It Happened One Nightnew
What earns the film a place alongside American Graffiti, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Dazed and Confused in the pantheon of evergreen high school movies is its sweet, soulful vulnerability.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'The Invasion': Live Pod Castingnew
Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, it's one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney's 1954 novella The Body Snatchers.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Invasion, Oliver Hirschbieger
Edward Yang, 1947-2007new
Like most great filmmakers, Yang was timeless, and transcendent of linguistic or geographic barriers.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-27-2007 |
Movies
'The Simpsons Movie': Longer, Wider, Deepernew
What the film does -- and does well -- is revisit the series' most enduring situations and themes while upping the ante just enough to lend everything a new level of suspense.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-27-2007 |
Reviews
'Hairspray': Tame Watersnew
Did John Waters sell out, mellow with age, or did this increasingly laissez-faire, metrosexual era merely render him irrelevant?
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, Hairspray
'Ratatouille': Rat Can Cooknew
A delish dish.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Bird, Ratatouille
'Evan Almighty': Zoo Storynew
Steve Carell squawks with the animals.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Evan Almighty, Tom Shadyac
Judd Apatow Explains Himselfnew
Geekology 101.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Judd Apatow, Knocked Up
'Ocean's Thirteen': Con Jobnew
Who's zooming whom?
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-08-2007 |
Reviews
Cannes 2007: Francophilianew
What the festival's top films all have in common is that they will all soon open commercially in French cinemas -- on this side of the Atlantic, they may be coming sooner to a living room near you.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-01-2007 |
Movies
Cannes: Is There a Doctor in the House?new
Health, in life and film, dominates this year's festival.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-25-2007 |
Movies
