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.

306 Hollywood: Grief, Loss and the Things We Leave Behind

Sometime in the middle of brother-sister duo Elan and Jonathan Bogarín’s new film, 306 Hollywood, they pay a visit to the Rockefeller archives at...

Review: Love, Gilda is a Rose-Colored Look at the Comedienne

Without even knowing who Gilda Radner was, it’s easy to understand her importance in the comedy world just by the people who talk about...

Review: Lizzie is Passionately Passion-less

As a concept, director Craig William Macneill’s new film Lizzie sounds unmissable. Chloë Sevigny plays Lizzie Borden, the woman who was acquitted of killing...

Kusama Infinity: A Portrait of the Artist by Other People

Yayoi Kusama is the world's most successful living female artist. Her sculptures, paintings and performance art have been exhibited all over the world for...

Support the Girls Review: Support This Movie

Imagine how exhausting it would be to be a woman working at Hooters. Now imagine how much worse it would be to be the...

Juliet, Naked: Rom-Com or Critique of Fandom?

With the release of Crazy Rich Asians and Netflix’s Set It Up earlier this summer, the rom-com is suddenly back in style. Director Jesse...

We the Animals: Oscar Watch?

Released in 2011, Justin Torres’s début novel We the Animals is technically a novel, but what happens to its lead character, Jonah, is largely...

Skate Kitchen: Sisterhood of the Traveling Half-Pipe

Summer is in its final days, but you wouldn’t know it from the temperature in New York City. The air is still thick and...

BlacKkKlansman: Spike Lee’s Hilarious & Challenging Return to Form

Spike Lee’s new film BlacKkKlansman begins in the most unexpected way: with a clip from 1939’s Gone with the Wind. As the camera slowly...

Nico, 1988: Portrait of the Artist as an Older Woman

Most people probably know Nico (born Christa Päffgen) through her vocals on The Velvet Underground’s self-title first album. But the German-born singer and one-time...

Never Goin’ Back: An Ode to Difficult Women

Last year, cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen released Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, a collection...

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: A Syringe Full of Joy to the Heart

I hate 2008’s Mamma Mia!. The story is dumb and half the actors can’t carry a tune in a paper bag. Still, there’s an undeniable...

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