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.

Whitney: A Near-Perfect Look at the Singer’s Legacy

It’s been six years since Whitney Houston died. Before her death, the singer had gone from one of the most successful pop stars of...

Nailed It! Season 2 Bakes the Perfect Mixture of Laughs & Disastrous Desserts

If The Great British Bake Off had terrible contestants and even worse hosts, it would be called Zumbo’s Just Desserts. However, the Australian show...

Love, Cecil: Surface as Substance

In college, I watched over 20 musicals in a two-week period for a paper. I loved a few of them and liked most, but...

Damsel: How the West Was Numb…to Today’s Social Issues

If you took a Western and a fairytale about a dashing prince trying to save his princess, the result would be Nathan and David...

Set It Up: The Rom-Com is Back

Netflix seems to add more original content every single day, but one of its biggest hits in the last year was the romantic-comedy, A...

Ocean’s 8 Shines Bright Like a Diamond

Let’s be honest, the all-female Ghosbusters reboot didn’t deserve the hate. It was a fun showcase for very enjoyable performers with a plot just...

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Cool to Be Kind

For anyone who grew up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, it seems impossible that there are children in the world who’ve never heard of Fred...

Review: Batman #48

A little under a month from now, Batman and Catwoman are going to get married. Writer Tom King has been building toward this moment...

Upgrade: Sci-Fi John Wick, and That’s Not a Bad Thing

Imagine a scenario in which HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey became a brain implant that could control your body. Terrifying right? That’s...

Summer 1993: A Love Letter to Childhood & the Parents Who Shape It

I was only 4 years old in the summer of 1993, so I don’t really remember it. I have ideas what I might have...

Review: Detective Comics #981

When writer James Tynion IV took over Detective Comics at the beginning of DC’s Rebirth, he said he wanted what happened in his stories...

On Chesil Beach: Another Oscar Nom for Saoirse Ronan?

Saoirse Ronan is no stranger to Ian McEwan’s writing. She received her first Oscar nomination at just 13-years-old for her work in Joe Wright’s...

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