Couch Cinema

Couch Cinema: 'Curon'

by Margot Harrison on June 29, 2020 at 5:00PM

Will you like it? I’m a sucker for a subgenre of streaming TV that I call “haunted Euroburgs.” Inspired to a greater or lesser extent by “Twin Peaks,” these European-made dramas combine supernatural doings with soapy revelations in highly scenic rural locales.

Couch Cinema: 'Fast Color'

by Margot Harrison on June 22, 2020 at 4:48PM

Will you like it? Cowritten and directed by Julia Hart, and given a meager theatrical release in 2019, Fast Color is a superhero film with the budget and values of an indie.

Couch Cinema: 'Shirley'

by Margot Harrison on June 15, 2020 at 5:00AM

Steamy fan fiction, too, with an indie-movie gloss. The opening scene finds Rose reading “The Lottery” on the train to Bennington.

Couch Cinema: 'Blindspotting'

by Margot Harrison on June 8, 2020 at 6:40PM

Will you like it? Big, bold and stylistically striking, with hot neon accents and occasional hyperreal touches, Blindspotting brings the energy of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing to today’s indie scene.

Couch Cinema: 'The Half of It'

by Margot Harrison on June 1, 2020 at 5:25PM

Will you like it? Full disclosure (and a spoiler): I learned about The Half of It from a disgruntled Twitter thread.

Couch Cinema: The Wolf House

by Margot Harrison on May 25, 2020 at 6:46PM

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Couch Cinema: 'Normal People'

by Margot Harrison on May 18, 2020 at 5:00PM

Will you like it? Six hours of TV dedicated to two mercurial young people’s on-again-off-again romance?

Couch Cinema: 'Upload'

by Margot Harrison on May 11, 2020 at 5:00PM

But if “Upload” is old-school TV, it’s good old-school TV — sharp, funny and inventive enough to keep me in binge mode. It’s hard not to root for Nathan and Nora’s seemingly doomed romance.

Couch Cinema: Pauline Kael Doc

by Margot Harrison on May 4, 2020 at 5:56PM

Rob Garver’s documentary supplements material from Brian Kellow’s 2011 Kael biography with archival footage, readings from Kael’s work by Sarah Jessica Parker, and interviews with fellow critics and Hollywood luminaries such as Quentin Tarantino, Paul Schrader and Alec Baldwin. Some were inspired by Kael; others had run-ins with her.

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