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 Party: Where the Political and Personal Meet

Marisa Carpico - February 16, 2018

The Party opens with a gun pointed directly at the audience. Though we know that we're in no danger, the wild look in the...

Fifty Shades Freed: Money is Sexier than BDSM

Marisa Carpico - February 9, 2018

The Fifty Shades of Grey series has made so much money. Like, hundreds of millions of dollars. That shouldn't be surprising considering it was...

Review: The Wicked and the Divine 1923 Special

Marisa Carpico - February 7, 2018

When The Wicked and the Divine began, the first few pages weren't devoted to the current-day Pantheon, but the final moments of the 1920's...

Review: Batman #40

Marisa Carpico - February 7, 2018

When I finished reading Batman #39 a few weeks ago, I laughed for 20 minutes straight. It wasn’t because Tom King had done anything funny,...

Review: Justin Timberlake, ‘Man of the Woods’

Marisa Carpico - February 2, 2018

Nearly a decade ago, Robin Thicke released Sex Therapy, an album about the joys of married sex. After “Blurred Lines” and the cheating revelations...

Please Stand By: An Odd, Stressful Road Movie

Marisa Carpico - January 26, 2018

Fan fiction isn't exactly the most respected art form. It's not often that you see someone list the fact that Fifty Shades of Grey...

Quest: One Family’s Journey through the Obama Years

Marisa Carpico - December 8, 2017

If Richard Linklater's Boyhood were a cinema verité documentary about a black family in Northern Philadelphia, it would be called Quest. Filmed over a...

Wonder Wheel: Woody Allen’s Best Film in Years

Marisa Carpico - December 1, 2017

As one Hollywood sexual predator after another is exposed, you have to wonder if Woody Allen's career is approaching its end. After all, his...

Batman Annual #2: A Must-Read for Bat/Cat Fans

Marisa Carpico - November 30, 2017

I have frequently criticized writer Tom King's run on Batman. Sometimes his storytelling is a thrilling twist on the form and sometimes it's incoherent....

The Man Who Invented Christmas: Just Rewatch ‘A Christmas Carol’ Instead

Marisa Carpico - November 21, 2017

Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is one of the best Christmas stories ever told. There have been so many adaptations–from muppets to the 1951, Scrooge,...