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Margot Harrison

Burlington

Associate Editor at Seven Days

I'm associate editor at Seven Days, Vermont's alt weekly news and culture source, and write about books and film. My YA author alter-ego is @MargotFHarrison.

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  • 1 week ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge new in theaters CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD: In the dark comedy slasher based on Adam Cesare's young-adult novel, a symbol of one-time success terrorizes a small town. Katie Douglas and Aaron Abrams star; Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs Evil) directed. (96 min, R.

  • 1 week ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge I miss the days before meme culture, when Nicolas Cage's out-thereness felt more like a spontaneous, wild phenomenon than a deliberately cultivated one. In the days of Vampire's Kiss and Face/Off, his campier performances were a rarified taste, but the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man changed everything.

  • 2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge Journalists tend to get a bad rap in suspense fiction, portrayed as stubborn interlopers dogging the detectives or rubberneckers harassing crime victims. So it's always refreshing to read a thriller that foregrounds storytellers and their particular dilemmas, such as Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You and now Coram House, the debut from Burlington-area author Bailey Seybolt.

  • 2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge If you're like me, you don't intentionally accumulate streaming subscriptions — you sign up to watch just one thing and then conveniently forget to cancel when you're done. I reactivated Apple TV+ for the long-delayed second season of the brilliant "Severance," a must for fans of dystopian science fiction and absurdist workplace satire.

  • 2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge new in theaters BOB TREVINO LIKES IT: A lonely young woman makes an online friend who shares her dad's name in this festival favorite comedy-drama from Tracie Laymon, starring Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo. (101 min, PG-13. Catamount) THE SURFER: Local bullies terrorize a surfer (Nicolas Cage) returning to the beach of his childhood in this psychological thriller from Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium). (100 min, R.

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Margot Harrison
Margot Harrison @margot7d
5 Jul 21

This was a great conversation!

John Odum
John Odum @jodum

Latest installment of https://t.co/S5SmHrnVp5 has @sevendaysvt @margot7d talking the #strongfemalecharacter movie "stock character," women in horror, and more.

Margot Harrison
Margot Harrison @margot7d
15 Jan 21

RT @hh_matt: "In the wake of the ...attack on the U.S. Capitol, some readers may ... feel disinclined to have a lighthearted laugh at anti-…

Margot Harrison
Margot Harrison @margot7d
26 Aug 20

I wrote about Vermont's "summer of the drive-in" for @sevendaysvt. For a taste of this summer ritual, a little different and a little more essential in 2020, watch the video from @StuckInVermont. https://t.co/zU9TSGgTUc