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Subject: Scott Foundas

  • Journey From the Fallout Boy

    Vincent Nguyen just emailed a comment to us from the director of Journey From the Fall, regarding Scott Foundas' review of the film. Director Ham Tran basically touches on the same points everyone else offended by the review did. Tran's comments are here. Our whole online package on the uproar is here.

    April 9, 2007
  • Little Saigon Film Director Wins Major Award

    Congratulations to Orange County-based film director Ham Tran. Judges at the AZN Asian Excellence Awards in Los Angeles recently named Tran's Journey from the Fall as the outstanding independent film of 2007. Tran's epic movie follows a fictional Vietnamese family from the day the Communists invaded Saigon in 1975 through the early 1980s and its relocation to OC's Little Saigon. I reviewed the movie favorably in 2006. LA Weekly's film critic Scott Foundas applauded much of the film but believe

    June 4, 2007
  • LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 9-14-07

    I'm not sure what to tell you today. I'm going to see DRAGON WARS (D-WAR) today, but mainly because it didn't screen for press and I need to get a review to you guys. It ought to be a no-brainer, but I've heard that it doesn't even deliver on the promise of dragons trashing Los Angeles, which is disappointing if true. If you feel like a bit of a drive, David Cronenberg's EASTERN PROMISES, in which Viggo Mortensen plays a brutal Russian thug, sounds like a winner for those who have ever enjoyed

    September 14, 2007
  • Hit List

    WEB EXCLUSIVE! The top movies of 2007

    December 27, 2007
  • This Week in the OC Weekly

    Find out what film critics, Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Jim Ridley, Ella Taylor and Robert Wilonsky agreed were the 12 best movies of the year. Also: Jeffrey Katzenberg in 3D and the state of indie filmmaking.And news has Matt Coker explaining why the Native American battle over the possible disturbance of an Indian burial site at a Mission San Juan Capistrano garden is getting ugly in "Grave Situation." Plus... • The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey You! and Savage L

    December 24, 2008
  • First Person

    November 17, 2005
  • JOURNEY FROM THE FALL review

    The following was originally posted March 22

    April 5, 2007
  • New Reviews

    We Recommend: Superbad

    August 16, 2007
  • New Reviews

    We recommend: Eagle Vs. Shark, Ratatouille, Sicko, Strike

    June 28, 2007
  • New Reviews

    We recommend: 1408, Chalk, A Mighty Heart

    June 21, 2007
  • New Reviews

    We recommend: Brand Upon the Brain!, DOA: Dead or Alive, The Golden Door, Nancy Drew

    June 14, 2007
  • New Reviews

    We recommend: Showbusiness: The Road to Broadway

    June 7, 2007
  • New Reviews

    We recommend: Bug, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

    May 24, 2007
  • New Reviews

    We recommend: After the Wedding, Away From Her, The Ex, The Hi

    May 10, 2007
  • Letters

    'THAT WAS BULLSHIT! YOU SHOULD SEE THE LADY DOWN THE STREET FROM ME! SHE USED TO BE HOT! NOW SHE LOOKS LIKE A MEXICAN COW!'

    May 10, 2007
  • New Reviews

    We recommend: Americanizing Shelley, Civic Duty,
    May 3, 2007

  • Letters

    'And when I say "you," I am referring to white America. I purposely left that "white" uncapitalized'

    April 26, 2007
  • Letters

    'This article is CRAP. This interview never happened, and falsifying information in that way is wrong for so many reasons. Mickey Mouse is a household name. Its like slandering Jesus; you just dont do it'

    April 12, 2007
  • New Reviews

    Are We Done Yet?; Firehouse Dog; The Page Turner; The Reaping; The TV Set

    April 5, 2007
  • REVIEW SPARKS OUTCRY

    Some readers accuse film critic of racism

    April 5, 2007
  • Letters

    'How DARE you call the film phony. This is a war against the Vietnamese community. We will organize a major protest against OC Weekly'

    April 5, 2007
  • New Reviews

    Cafe Setareh; Gray Matters; Nishabd; The Ultimate Gift

    March 8, 2007
  • New Reviews

    The Abandoned; Days of Glory (Indigenes); Reno 911!: Miami; Starter for Ten

    February 22, 2007
  • Now Playing

    Alpha Dog, Borat, Casino Royale

    February 1, 2007
  • New Reviews

    Arthur and the Invisibles; Guru; Primeval; Stomp the Yard

    January 11, 2007
  • New Reviews

    Guadalupe; The History Boys; Screamers; Unaccompanied Minors

    December 7, 2006
  • A Going Home Companion

    Robert Altman, R.I.P.

    November 30, 2006
  • Now Playing

    January 25, 2007
  • New Reviews

    October 12, 2006
  • New Reviews

    October 5, 2006
  • New Reviews

    September 21, 2006
  • New Reviews

    August 24, 2006
  • New Reviews

    August 17, 2006
  • New Reviews

    July 20, 2006
  • Dear Kevin

    July 20, 2006
  • New Reviews

    July 13, 2006
  • New Reviews

    June 15, 2006
  • New Reviews

    The Sentinel, Silent Hill, Standing Still

    April 20, 2006
  • After the Crash

    April 20, 2006
  • New Reviews

    March 16, 2006
  • New Reviews

    March 9, 2006
  • New Reviews

    February 16, 2006
  • New Reviews

    February 2, 2006
  • New Film Reviews

    January 12, 2006
  • Confessions of a Democratic Mind

    October 13, 2005
  • The Knightly News

    George Clooney tips his hat to Edward R. Murrow

    October 13, 2005
  • STEAMBOY

    March 24, 2005
  • Letters

    March 11, 2004
  • Elephant vs. Elephant

    November 20, 2003
  • Google Dolls

    The other day, while getting the website that mirrors your favorite OC alt.-weekly pub ready for ya'all, Clockworken noticed something interesting upon opening Gustavo Arellano's popular column !Ask a Mexican! (Special Cesar Chavez Edition). Along the top of the virtual page was a Google advertisement inside a rectangular box, but upon opening El Mex the copy inside changed. Gone were the previous product-hawking sites, which we can't recall at this moment due to a weekend spent swimming with a

    January 23, 2006