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.

‘Use Me’ Review: An Engrossing Thriller that Blurs the Lines Between Fact & Fiction

There have been a lot of movies about cam girls in the last few years. Some have been documentaries like 2016’s Cam Girlz. Others,...

‘Mouthpiece’ Review: An Imaginative, Deeply-Felt Examination of Grief

There aren’t a lot of compliments harder to take than, “Hey, great eulogy.” Regardless of how sincere the compliment is, it's can only make the person...

‘#Like’ Review: Flawed but Hard to Shake

Photo Courtesy Brigade MarketingIt’s been a weird couple of years for women. One the one hand, in the wake of the 2016 election...

‘The Russian Five’ Review: The Definitive Movie on the Detroit Red Wings

By the time the early 1980’s, the Detroit Red Wings seemed like a reflection of their city after the car industry’s decline. A struggling...

‘Funny Story’ Review: Underwritten Characters Ruin a Unique Premise

Bisexuals don't have the best track record on film. Whether it's Sharon Stone's manipulative and possibly murderous Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct or last...

Way Too Early Oscar Predictions Podcast: The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Review

https://soundcloud.com/popbreakdotcombreakcast/way-too-early-oscar-predictions-podcast-the-2019-tribeca-film-festival-review Welcome back to the Way Too Early Oscar Predictions Podcast -- Pop Break's official year-round Oscars podcast. Film editor Marisa Carpico, and TV editor Matt...

‘Walking on Water’ Review: An Incomplete Portrait of an Artist and His Work

Artists, collaborators and married couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude always made projects on a massive scale. With iconic installations like The Gates in New York...

Tribeca Review: Lil’ Buck: Real Swan

Photo Courtesy Prodigy PRIt’s safe to say the average person probably doesn’t know much about Memphis Jookin. Created in the city of its...

‘Aniara’ Review: Bleak and Efficient Sci-Fi

If you were to condense all of SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica late ‘00s reboot into a single film, the result would be Aniara. Adapted by...

‘Perfect’ Review: Beautiful but Dangerous

Perfect, the new film executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and directed by Eddie Alcazar is hard to describe. In essence, it’s a sci-fi horror...

‘Photograph’ Review: An Old Fashioned Romance in the Best Way

Photograph, the new film written and directed by Ritesh Batra begins with a classic rom-com meet-cute. Walking past Mumbai’s Gateway to India while retuning...

Tater Tot & Patton Puts Happy Death Day’s Jessica Rothe in a Whole New Light

Though the Happy Death Day series would probably be a hit for its concept alone, what makes both films work so well is Jessica...

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