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.

Review: Batman #40

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Offers a Dark, Subversive Worldview

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is as black a comedy as they come. Set exactly where its title indicates, it tells the story of...

The Square: Performance Art at the Movies

Not everyone wants to be challenged at the movies. Just look at the "F" Cinemascore for Darren Aronoffsky's mother! earlier this year. As much...

Arrow Season 6 Premiere, “Fallout” – A Promising, if Uneven, Start

Greetings, Arrow fans. I know what you're thinking. She's back! Well, sorry to disappoint, but that's not actually true. While I toyed with the...

The Departure: A Quiet Examination of Suicide and Choosing to Live

Early in The Departure, the new documentary from director Lana Wilson, we see the ritual that gives the film its title. The film's subject,...

Human Flow: A Sobering, Comprehensive Look at the Global Refugee Crisis

Early in Chinese director Ai Weiwei's new documentary on the world refugee crisis, Human Flow, Jordanian Princess Dana Firas says our humanity must guide...

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