Interview by Greg Carlson Full disclosure: I have known filmmaker Mike Scholtz since I was in elementary school. His sister Ann spotted me reading X-Men comic books during milk break and figured Mike and I would hit it off. Not long after, Mike invited me to his birthday sleepover party, which happened during the time […]
All posts for the month February, 2013
Amour
Movie review by Greg Carlson A measured memento mori coiled with the director’s signature refusal to indicate any absolute moral transparency, Michael Haneke’s “Amour” meticulously chronicles the physical decline of an octogenarian music teacher whose gradual slide into end-of-life helplessness is witnessed and attended to by her husband. Confining the action almost entirely to the […]
Posted by GBC on February 18, 2013
http://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=180
Side Effects
Movie review by Greg Carlson WARNING: The following review reveals key plot information. Read only if you have seen “Side Effects.” The politics of Big Pharma front a wicked, sleazy homage to psychosexual thrillers in Steven Soderbergh’s smartypants divertissement “Side Effects,” an enjoyable genre workout that gleefully mashes up Alfred Hitchcock and Joe Eszterhas without […]
Posted by GBC on February 11, 2013
http://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=184
Warm Bodies
Movie review by Greg Carlson Jonathan Levine’s adaptation of Isaac Marion’s novel “Warm Bodies” endeavors to resurrect the durable zombie genre as a kinder, gentler post-apocalypse by injecting into the proceedings the seldom-used but not entirely novel device of romance. Pulse-crossed love hints at a sorta kinda “Romeo and Juliet” attraction between an undead flesh-eater […]
Posted by GBC on February 4, 2013
http://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=188