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.

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,...

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....

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