Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
40 Times Britney Spears Embodied Being a Millennial Spokesperson
If anyone embodies the last time capitalism was really working on a peak “synergistic” level, it’s Britney Spears. In fact, for all this convenient repurposing [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #4: Madonna Hanging With Anti-Semite John Galliano After Getting a Tattoo in Hebrew
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. Madonna has long been a champion of the [Read More…]
The Souvenir Part II Accentuates What Has Always Been the Case: The Rich Are Permitted the Luxury to Make Art that Tells “Their” Story, Or a Version of It
Everyone is very eager to classify Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II as “a movie about making a movie.” It makes everything “neatly” identifiable, which [Read More…]
FKA Twigs’ “Measure of a Man” Provides the Tone of a Bond Theme for The King’s Man
While the Kingsman series might be slightly less profitable than the James Bond one for UK cinemas and beyond, there’s no denying the franchise is [Read More…]
“Traitor” as Patrizia Reggiani’s Anthem
Olivia Rodrigo may think she has the monopoly on knowing all about heartache, but, in truth, her latest hit, “traitor,” could have just has easily [Read More…]
In Praise of the Stephen Sondheim Contributions to I’m Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy
Even though, without question, “Vogue” will forever remain the only song remembered by non-Madonna fans from I’m Breathless, it’s more important than ever to recognize [Read More…]
Betty Broderick and Patrizia Reggiani: Two Similarly Motivated Women When It Came to Killing Their Husbands, With the Former Being Portrayed as More Empathetic
As everyone continues to praise Lady Gaga for her horrendous accent in House of Gucci, there’s something else in her performance that audiences have unwittingly [Read More…]
Bad Accent Competition: House of Gucci
One would like to go into House of Gucci with an open mind, of course. And yet, it’s a challenge to do so when any [Read More…]
In Subtle Yet Palpable Ways, Ghostbusters: Afterlife Accents the Destitution of the Present in Comparison to the 80s
While Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been played up as a film filled with the kind of nostalgia that fans can surely appreciate, the “third installment” is [Read More…]
Chopstick Killer: Titane Would be Totally Original Were It Not For the Fetishists of Crash
After the “underground” success of 2016’s Raw, Julia Ducournau’s second feature film (third, if you count her TV movie, Mange), Titane, has been met with [Read More…]
