Scott Foundas

It may all come down to how you feel about this one scene, where the gasping, asthmatic hit man known as Wheezy Joe (Irwin Keyes) mistakes his handgun for his inhaler and . . . well, you get the idea. If you find that moment riotous — perhaps even the......

On the night of July 1, 1981, four people — at least three of them drug dealers — were bludgeoned to death (and a fifth nearly so) in a Laurel Canyon cottage on Wonderland Avenue. By the time the blood had dried, circumstantial evidence pointed to John C. Holmes, he......

Not infrequently, in the course of the 30-odd films I consumed at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, I was carried away by that feeling you get in surprising abundance at great film festivals, the realization — after the lights have gone down and images begun to flicker on the......

Here is a potentially remarkable career taking shape. A sprightly 42 (and looking considerably younger than that), Michael Winterbottom has already directed some two dozen films and telefilms. Not only is Winterbottom very good — in the course of the last year and a half, he has premiered new films......

The dancing is dazzling in director Emilio Martínez-Lázaro’s The Other Side of the Bed, but the movie itself is a dud. When the characters — a quartet of friends tied up in a healthy assortment of romantic entanglements — spontaneously burst into song, their movements are vibrant and sensual, as......

What precedent, if any, exists for movie directors making public apologies for their work? Vincent Gallo was rumored to have done just that at Cannes this year, in the wake of his contentious The Brown Bunny, before a precise transcript of the interview in question proved otherwise. And long before......

When you treat movies like Play-Doh, throwing them at movie screens by the fistful and standing by whichever ones happen to stick, something deserving is bound to fall to the ground and get squished by the weight of a paternal shoe, flattened under the impression of its maker’s logo. That......

Outside of Clint Eastwood, no modern film star has remained more stubbornly committed to making Westerns — or had more luck at getting them made — than Kevin Costner. And Costner’s case is all the more remarkable in that he came to the genre in a moviemaking era that had......