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 VelociPastor’ Review: A Fun, Clever Horror Parody

Many viewers will likely know whether they want to watch The VelociPastor purely by reading the title. Written, directed and edited by Brendan Steere,...

‘The Garden’ Left Behind Review: A Potent, Moving Picture of Being Trans in America

Thanks to shows like Orange is the New Black and Pose, trans women–particularly those of color–have perhaps never been such a prominent part of...

‘Jay Myself’ Review: One Man’s “Trash” Makes for Cinematic Treasure

On March 17, 1966, photographer Jay Maisel bought the Germania Bank building in New York City’s East Village. He then spent nearly five decades...

‘Luce’ Review: Melodrama at its Finest

You have to have been living under a rock to deny the last few years have been a time of enormous social and cultural...

‘Mike Wallace is Here’ Review: A Deep Dive into the Father of the Modern Interview

The new documentary, Mike Wallace is Here, begins with the titular journalist interviewing Bill O'Reilly. Wallace asks him the appeal of Fox News and...

‘Honeyland’ Review: A Beautiful Parable of Honeybees

What do you think of when you hear the word, “honey”? Perhaps you imagine a beekeeper in a suit, carefully drenching bees in smoke...

Trespassers Review: Stalled by Predictable Character Arcs

There’s a long history of bad boyfriends in horror. From The Creature from the Black Lagoon, to Billy Loomis in the first Scream, to...

Review: ‘The Farewell’ Finds Humor in Grief

Early in The Farewell, the new film from writer-director Lulu Wang, the father of the protagonist tells a joke at dinner party. He describes...

‘The Cat Rescuers’ Review: Great Even If You Aren’t a Cat Person

As an opening title card in the new documentary, The Cat Rescuers, explains, there are roughly 500,000 stray cats living in New York City....

Into the Dark: Culture Shock is the Best of the Series

After a two-episode slump with April’s I’m Just F*cking with You and the questionably-holiday themed All that We Destroy, Hulu and Blumhouse’s horror series...

‘Back to the Fatherland’ Review: A Moving, Complex Study of the Holocaust’s Legacy

Purely as a concept, Back to the Fatherland sounds like an essential documentary. Co-directed by the granddaughter of a Jew who escaped the Holocaust...

‘Midsommar’ Review: The Inverse of ‘Hereditary’

When writer-director Ari Aster’s first feature, Hereditary, hit theaters last year, it felt like the beginning of an exciting new voice. Classed with movies...

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