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 China Hustle: The Next Housing Bubble

The American economy has never quite recovered from 2008's burst housing bubble. Lots of investors–both big and small–lost money and the few who didn't...

Unsane: Steven Soderbergh’s Gaslight Anthem

The concept of “gaslighting” isn’t new. It comes from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play, Gas Light, about a man who tries to convince his wife...

Review: Vampironica #1

You wouldn’t know this from watching the CW’s Riverdale, but the Archie Comics universe actually supports a lot of different types of stories. While...

A Wrinkle in Time: A Beautiful, Emotional, Wonder-Filled Epic

I read A Wrinkle in Time in the 5th grade, but I don’t remember anything about it. At least, I didn’t think I did....

Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy – A Must-See Doc of Art & Nature

All the way back in 2001, director Thomas Riedelsheimer released Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy. The documentary followed the titular UK artist as he...

Gringo: A Film That Desperately Wants You to Love It

Gringo is a film desperate to be loved. Directed by Nash Edgerton and written by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone, it’s supposed to be...

Thoroughbreds: Rich Girls Gone Bad

Early in writer-director Cory Finley's new film Thoroughbreds, one character says to another that the worst thing a person can be other than incompetent,...

They Remain: A Rote Paranoid Thriller

Based on the novella "—30—" by Laird Barron, writer-director Philip Galett's They Remain feels like an episode of Black Mirror minus the techno-terror. It...

The Party: Where the Political and Personal Meet

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

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

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

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,...

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