Marisa Carpico

Marisa Carpico
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By day, Marisa Carpico stresses over America’s election system. By night, she becomes a pop culture obsessive. Whether it’s movies, TV or music, she watches and listens to it all so you don’t have to.

Wonder Wheel: Woody Allen’s Best Film in Years

As one Hollywood sexual predator after another is exposed, you have to wonder if Woody Allen's career is approaching its end. After all, his...

Batman Annual #2: A Must-Read for Bat/Cat Fans

I have frequently criticized writer Tom King's run on Batman. Sometimes his storytelling is a thrilling twist on the form and sometimes it's incoherent....

The Man Who Invented Christmas: Just Rewatch ‘A Christmas Carol’ Instead

Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is one of the best Christmas stories ever told. There have been so many adaptations–from muppets to the 1951, Scrooge,...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Offers a Dark, Subversive Worldview

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is as black a comedy as they come. Set exactly where its title indicates, it tells the story of...

The Square: Performance Art at the Movies

Not everyone wants to be challenged at the movies. Just look at the "F" Cinemascore for Darren Aronoffsky's mother! earlier this year. As much...

Arrow Season 6 Premiere, “Fallout” – A Promising, if Uneven, Start

Greetings, Arrow fans. I know what you're thinking. She's back! Well, sorry to disappoint, but that's not actually true. While I toyed with the...

The Departure: A Quiet Examination of Suicide and Choosing to Live

Early in The Departure, the new documentary from director Lana Wilson, we see the ritual that gives the film its title. The film's subject,...

Human Flow: A Sobering, Comprehensive Look at the Global Refugee Crisis

Early in Chinese director Ai Weiwei's new documentary on the world refugee crisis, Human Flow, Jordanian Princess Dana Firas says our humanity must guide...

Batman vs. Two-Face: Holy Sequelitis, Batman!

While The Killing Joke was DC’s most talked-about animated film last year, Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders was its best. Conceived as a...

NYCC Panel Recap: Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View

Star Wars: A Certain Point of View is a collection of short stories written by veterans and newbies to the world George Lucas created...

NYCC First Look: Marvel’s Runaways

When the cast and crew of the upcoming Hulu and Marvel Television collaboration, Runaways, appeared on the NYCC stage last night, it seemed like...

Review: Batman #32

Four months ago, Batman proposed to Catwoman. It was a shock, but not necessarily unexpected. Writer Tom King had strengthened their relationship since taking...

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