© 2026 The Couch Critic
In a dystopian Time world, Mother Time controls all time. Her daughter, Junji, is frequently off time. When Junji gets into a heated fight with Mother Time, she is pulled into a land of timelessness. She wakes in a surreal circus town full of timeless creatures engaging in uncanny activities. How will she navigate the fine line between control and chaos?
In the sterile silence of a morgue, a woman is asked to identify a body.
While brushing his teeth, he finds a red dot. It seems to be leading him somewhere.
Alone on Christmas Eve, Michael makes a last-ditch effort to win back his ex-girlfriend. Although repelled by his sudden reappearance, the promise of $1000 buys ten minutes of Honey’s time as she reluctantly sits through his declaration of love. Michael’s dreams of a heartfelt reunion are shattered when he is promptly rejected by a stripper who refuses to participate in his fantasy, challenging toxic romantic comedy tropes normalized through contemporary media. Based on her semi-autobiographical stage play, Never Walk Alone, Julie Phan offers a desensationalized interpretation of sex work through an intimate representation of the person underneath the projection.
Often described as ‘avant-garde punk’, Dublin musician Meryl Streek is dark and dangerous – a cocktail of rage and despair. Onstage he’s a prowler – menacing, apoplectic, and snarling like a young Joe Strummer. Rage Against the Dying of the Light is not only a portrait of an artist, but a snapshot of a challenging time in Irish culture amid a massive housing crisis and a fear of artistic homogenisation – highlighting the importance of dissenting, unique and rousing voices.
Captain Canada must face his greatest threat yet to protect the country he loves.
Eight-year-old Xiao Ru lives in a perfect world, blessed with a hilarious father and a caring mother. But when her phone unexpectedly breaks, it sets off a solo journey to get it fixed. On this adventure, she not only faces the unknown but also stumbles upon a cruel truth she was never meant to discover.
Found on forgotten cassette tapes and long-lost duplicate VHS recordings, ERi-TV The Sunken Sahara airs once, on a late December night in 1998. An objective relic of the Eritrea-Ethiopia war, some call it a propaganda piece, some call it protest art, some say something deeper. Allegedly "brainwashed" witnesses described what they saw as "magic". The original writers and those associated with the broadcast are unknown and their words are misremembered and misheard.
In the summer of 2021, young people from Hungary and Transylvania embark on a horseback pilgrimage following the traces of Saint Ladislaus, King of Hungary. Along the way, pastors from churches across Székely Land help uncover the hidden messages, symbolic meanings, and deeper spiritual truths encoded in the frescoes that preserve the legend. The journey unfolds on horseback along the border between past and present—reaching all the way down to the deepest layers of the soul.
Star has been wanting to share something with Jill for a while. Something that comes at a great price.
In 2026, Kyoko Koizumi went on tour to celebrate her kanreki - 60th birthday. This concert was recorded on May 3, 2026 at the historic Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.
The Nomad's Redemption is a cinematic exploration of movement, memory, and self-confrontation following a journey where redemption is not a destination, but a process unfolding along the way. The story of two individuals in two distant landscapes, each searching for redemption. Two lives. Two distant worlds. One shared longing for meaning.
What began as a film about my birth and my mother’s travels to Japan and China in the 1990s slowly shifts into a commission for her new marriage, opening a fracture between the images I inherit and the role I am expected to perform.
Cooper is a grieving teenage boy, haunted by his guilt for his best freinds death, so Cooper contacts him through a ritual, reliving his most recent memories with his best friend and speaking to him from the dead.
An argument unfolds in the midst of everything else that has ever happened.
