Tag: Genna Rivieccio
Love Is Witchcraft: Bell, Book and Candle
As a more under the radar “Christmas movie,” Bell, Book and Candle serves to stress the point that every rom-com before and since has wanted [Read More…]
Not To Excuse Sociopathy, But Guinevere Beck Is Kind of a Dumb Bitch: Or Dan Humphrey Always Goes for Serena Van Der Woodsen
As most writers can’t help but make themselves the underlying center of whatever narrative they manage to churn out in these times so balking at [Read More…]
Broad City Season 5 Premiere “Stories” Rivals 2015 Episode “The Matrix” for Its Social Media Statement
Because no Broad City viewer is any stranger to a birthday premise on the show by now, Ilana (Ilana Glazer) announces in a sing-song voice [Read More…]
Mary Poppins: Child Gaslighter/Royal Doulton Whore
While Emily Blunt has stated time and again that Mary Poppins Returns is more “homage” to the original than anything else, it has to be [Read More…]
Hormones Are Wasted on the Young: Monkey Business
While there is so much wasted on the self-conscious, yet simultaneously overly arrogant young, perhaps even more than youth itself being unjustly expended on them [Read More…]
Squinting Hard Enough to See the Feminist Slant of Almost Famous
In 2000, when Harvey Weinstein was still experiencing his raping and pillaging glory days, it was, in all honesty, almost impossible to think of a [Read More…]
Kate Nash, Unabashed 90s Kid, Makes a Song and Video Called “Trash” That Gives Recycle Rex a Run For His Money
Ah, the 90s. A time when Suede, too, had a song out called “Trash.” A time when environmental conscientiousness was peddled upon unsuspecting millennials duped [Read More…]
Carol Channing: That Rare Breed of Gay Icon That Didn’t Care Too Much for Gays
With the death of Carol Channing at ninety-seven due to “natural causes” (whatever that constitutes in the realm of dying), the Broadway world and the [Read More…]
LDR & Jared Leto’s Gucci Guilty Commercial: A “Born to Die” Redux
As the more approachable “twin” to Link Wray’s cherished 1958 hit single “Rumble,” the record’s B-side, “The Swag” is fittingly used to set the sonic [Read More…]
Why Didn’t Someone Do A Lesbian Frankenstein Concept Before?: Kehlani’s “Nights Like This” Video
Reinventing the wheel of geekdom from its John Hughes iteration in Weird Science (and, of course, long before in every cinematic production of Frankenstein), Kehlani [Read More…]