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 Mustang Can’t Escape the Shadow of Last Year’s Horse Movie

Believe it or not, The Rider and The Mustang are two different movies. The former hit theaters last year, was directed by Chloé Zhao...

The Hummingbird Project Review: Surprisingly Melancholy and Thoughtful

We've seen a lot of movies about stock market grifters. In 1987, there was Wall Street, which told us greed was good mere months...

Review: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase is Refreshingly Old Fashioned

This isn't the first time Nancy Drew has come to life. Since the girl detective character first appeared in 1930, there have been half...

Review: Captain Marvel – Higher, Further, Faster than the Boys

Photo Credit: Marvel Studios Captain Marvel has a lot to live up to. The MCU has been around since 2008, but this is its...

Review: 3 Faces — An Odyssey of Actresses

Writer-director Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces begins with phone camera footage of a young woman filming her own suicide. It's upsetting and it's understandable when...

Review: Climax is Fun … If You Can Stand It

French director Gaspar Noé loves to make unpleasant films. Whether it’s 2002’s Irreversible–which centers around a horrific rape scene that never seems to stop...

Review: Apollo 11 is a Breathtaking Achievement

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and the new documentary Apollo 11 is a glorious way to mark the occasion....

Review: Woman at War is a Sympathetic & Fantastical Look at a Divisive Subject

It’s not easy to get an audience to root for a terrorist. Yet that’s exactly what Icelandic filmmaker Benedikt Erlingsson has done with his...

Into the Dark: Treehouse is a Step Backward for the Horror Series

Into the Dark, Blumhouse and Hulu's year-long, monthly horror series has improved with each episode. December's installment, Pooka, was kinky and weird, but didn't...

Review: What Men Want is Fun, but Not Great

What Women Want hasn't exactly aged well. When it was released in 2000, the concept seemed progressive: a ladies man suddenly gains the ability...

Into the Dark: Down is a Dark, Twisted Romance

Last month, Hulu's holiday-centric horror series, Into the Dark, delivered its best installment yet. New Year, New You was intimate, unpredictable and bolstered by...

Arctic Proves There’s Catharsis in Struggling to Survive

Mads Mikkelsen has spent a lot of time in the snow lately. Last week, he appeared in Netflix’s Polar, a stylish, gritty comic adaptation...

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