Calhoun

Calhoun

Favorite films

  • But I'm a Cheerleader
  • They Live
  • Bottoms
  • Motel Hell

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  • The Parenting

    ★★

  • Control Freak

    ★★★½

  • Can You Keep a Secret?

  • Mother, Couch

    ★★★★

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  • The Parenting

    The Parenting

    ★★

    with a remarkably funny cast, it’s a wonder how the characters seem to fall just short of being funny— the spirit of the joke is there but any element of genuine humor is distinctly lacking in a way that was incredible to see for all the wrong reasons

  • Control Freak

    Control Freak

    ★★★½

    a sort of spiritual successor to other great Asian horror films like Ju-on or Impetigore, it reads as a natural evolution of other horror box office successes like Smile but with an added cultural specificity and a Sam Raimi-esque glee for unsettling shadowy figures and a Cronenbergian reverence for body horror and creature design

    a long-winded resolution takes some of its bite but Kelly Marie Tran is sensational so it remains engaging even when it, narratively, feels inevitable

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  • Apartment 7A

    Apartment 7A

    ★★

    this is an amalgam of a number of better horror movies but Dianne Wiest is having fun and i love that for her

  • Limbo

    Limbo

    ★★★½

    It’s hard to know what to make of Limbo after immediately watching it. Packaged by Focus features as a dry dramedy about the immigrant experience in the UK, it’s easy to feel a little misled after seeing Ben Sharrock’s final product. However, it’s equally easy to understand why it might be distributed that way as the film itself flits from tone to tone rather meanderingly. While that may seem like a harsh criticism, most of the frustration surrounding Limbo stems…