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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.

‘The Secret Garden’ Review: Missing the Magic

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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden has been adapted to film numerous times since its collection into novel form in 1911. There was a...
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‘She Dies Tomorrow’ Review: The Perfect Pandemic Movie?

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Though writer-director Amy Seimetz’s new film, She Dies Tomorrow, was made well before COVID-19 changed everything, it feels uncannily suited to this moment. The...
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‘Sisters with Transistors’ Review: The Forgotten History of Women in Electronic Music

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When the average person thinks of someone who makes electronic music, the image they most likely conjure is of some guy with a silly...
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‘Dirt Music’ Review: A Cliffs Notes Romance

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  Director Gregor Jordan’s Dirt Music should have everything it needs to succeed. It’s got a great cast that includes Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund and...
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‘Relic’ Review: An Unsettling Horror of Family Mental Illness

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There are a lot of similarities between director Natalie Erika James’s Relic and Ari Aster’s 2018 film, Hereditary. Just as that was Aster’s début...
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‘Disclosure’ Review: A Dense, Engaging History of Trans Representation in Film

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In 2014, when Time magazine ran its “The Transgender Tipping Point” issue with actress Laverne Cox on the cover, it was just short of...
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‘Scare Package’ Review: Not Even Satisfying for Hardcore Horror Fans

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Horror as a genre is kind of built on, if not outright parody, then copying. Halloween led to Friday the 13th, The Blair Witch...
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‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: The Spike Lee Joint We Needed

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The world has perhaps never been more in need of a new Spike Lee joint. This one is called Da 5 Bloods, a Vietnam...
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Tribeca Review: P.S. Burn This Letter Please

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America's queer history is not as complete as it should be. In large part, that’s because the AIDS crisis of the '80s and '90s...
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‘Valley Girl’ Review: The Rare Remake that Improves Upon the Original

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It’s safe to say that nobody was clamoring for a remake of 1983’s Valley Girl. Set in (then) contemporary Los Angles, it paired a...
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‘The Half of It’ Review: A Smart, Surprising Teen Rom-Com

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It’s been 16 years since the release of writer-director Alice Wu’s Saving Face, but her sophomore feature, The Half of It, is only hitting...
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‘Selah and the Spades’ Review: A Surprising and Stylish Teen Drama

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If the CW’s Riverdale were good, it might look a little something like writer-director Tayarisha Poe’s début film, Selah and the Spades. Set in...
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