Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
A Holy Dildo and a Little Bit of (Sapphic) Ecstasy: Benedetta
At a nunnery in the small Italian village of Pescia, called the Convent of Theatines, a girl named Benedetta (played at the beginning by Elena [Read More…]
Landscapers Proves the MARINA Adage, “Hollywood Infected Your Brain”
It’s amazing how much fantasy—a tool of survival and self-preservation—can betray a person after too long spent in that false world. Landscapers is very much [Read More…]
Rashomon for Rape: The Last Duel
Told from three separate perspectives, Ridley Scott begins his epic narrative, The Last Duel on 29 December 1386—apparently, it takes going that far back in [Read More…]
Sean Penn Continues to be Madonna’s Most Embarrassing Ex After His Comments on Masculinity
Being a gay icon, part of the reason for Madonna’s status as such also stems from her flavor for overly butch men (so “butch” to [Read More…]
FKA Twigs’ “Jealousy” Reminds That Black British Culture in Music Is Rarely As Celebrated As It Should Be
There is so often talk of the “Black experience” in America, yet, in certain regards, one has to wonder if that experience isn’t even more [Read More…]
Meta Never Ends: Scream (2022) Takes Up the Mantle for Scream 4
In 1996, it was the Spice Girls who claimed that “friendship never ends.” The same year, perhaps Scream was establishing its own unspoken aphorism: “meta [Read More…]
Even Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama Have to Beg These Days (Just Not For Money)
While Thelma Houston might once have been the queen of saying, “Don’t leave me this way,” Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama are now throwing their [Read More…]
No More “Bette Davis Eyes,” No More “Private Eyes”—It’s All About “Shinigami Eyes” Now
Commencing with a scene that makes it look like she’s in an AI version of Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell,” Grimes ramps up her “metaverse” [Read More…]
On Born to Die’s Tenth Anniversary, Let Us Reflect Upon How the Album Would Fare Today, Plus the “We All Died in 2012” Theory
The accelerated pace at which society has altered in the years since one, Lana Del Rey, released her debut album, Born to Die, is almost [Read More…]
GAYLE Channels Lindsay Lohan’s Freaky Friday Character in “ur just horny”
As the only one left in the 2006 car trio (a.k.a. “the summit” that defined a decade) to never really get “justice” after the way [Read More…]
