Author: Genna Rivieccio
After They Wake Up: There’s A Reason John Carpenter Couldn’t Give an Epilogue to They Live
As the 80s drew to a close, the hangover that was to come as a result of the excess was already brewing. The effects of [Read More…]
“Bedtime Story” and “Dark Ballet” Bone Fellini in “911”
While it is perhaps redundant (not reductive) at this juncture to point out that Lady Gaga has a tendency to “borrow” from Madonna–a fact that [Read More…]
Carrie Bradshaw Lives Inside The Matrix, Ergo New York Is The Matrix
Cogito, ergo sum. That’s the philosophical aphorism Descartes left us with. But no one said that just because you think, you’re actually delving into what’s [Read More…]
The Rest Of Us: A Unique Glimpse Into the Dynamic of “Starter” Family vs. New Family
After years spent working on short films and documentaries, Canadian writer-director Aisling Chin-Yee finally saw fit to give us a full-length feature, The Rest of [Read More…]
Arrested Development, Paris Hilton Edition: What the Latest Documentary on the Socialite Reveals
If you asked anyone their immediate perception of Paris Hilton, they would either blink at you absently like you’re insane and pretend they haven’t thought [Read More…]
Amy Winehouse: A Final Emblem of a Generation of Women Willing to Justify Caddish Male Behavior as True Love
It was the most overt and major stain on her. A scarlet F for Fool. And yet, it was the very thing that propelled her [Read More…]
Antebellum (Not Lady) Borrows From the Running Out of Time Playbook of Plot Twists
For those who remember a bit of plagiarism controversy when M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 movie, The Village, first came out, it was because of the [Read More…]
The Falling Man Is the Visual Manifestation of the Shit Sandwich or Shit Cereal Paradox
Amid all the images of destruction and carnage documented on September 11, 2001, one that remains, to this day, a standout of the atrocities is [Read More…]
The Staff of Life: A Theory on the Mass Urge to Bake Bread in Quarantine (in America)
In Henry Miller’s damning second volume of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, a way ahead of its time indictment of America and its priorities, there is a [Read More…]
I Used To Go Here: No One Cares
“It could be better.” This is the final line of Kris Rey’s I Used To Go Here, as though to goad its audience in a [Read More…]