Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
34+35 = Austin Powers Allusions Don’t Exactly Make Anyone “Randy”–And They Never Did
After taking on the presidential role (as literally anyone can now) in the “Positions” video, Ariana Grande has seen fit to experiment with a new [Read More…]
Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Falls on the Ground With the Spotlight-Stealing Women of the 80s: Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher
The highly anticipated fourth season of The Crown does not fail to deliver on the expected contentions and scandals of the decade, most of them [Read More…]
The Haunting of Bly Manor and the Reinforcement of Coupling Despotism
As far as adaptations of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw go, there is no shortage. And 1961’s The Innocents (co-written by Truman Capote [Read More…]
No Adjudication Needed: The Queen’s Gambit Wins the Brilliancy Prize
As a man who largely made his legacy out of “game” books (namely, The Hustler and The Color of Money), one of the few novels [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Makes A Strong Case to Keep Dead Malls As Mausoleums to American Capitalism’s “Glossier” Era
While Billie Eilish, at her “tender age” (to use a cringe-y expression), could never possibly know the true clout a mall once had (reaching a [Read More…]
Mrs. Danvers Is Every Trump Loyalist
With the latest addition to the pile of Alfred Hitchcock remakes being Rebecca, one can’t help but study with more double take curiosity the utterly [Read More…]
Rebecca Redux: A Sumptuous Effort That Takes Understated Liberties With Hitchcock’s Original
Remaking anything from the Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre is always an emboldened move. And yet, at the same time, in the present climate of a total [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s Only Mentions of Madonna in Her Autobio Are Expectedly Shade-Drenched
While Madonna is no stranger to being her own Master of Shade, it has always been, in this particular dynamic, Mariah Carey to keep the [Read More…]
Flashdance Repackaged the American Dream to Women of Color at a Time When It Was Particularly Antithetical To Do So
With Joe Biden transcending into the “working man done good,” attention has been turned once again to the blue collar nature of Pennsylvania. A state [Read More…]
“OK Boomer” Becomes “You’re A-OK, Boomer”
It’s an irony in keeping with the incongruities of 2020. That after a particularly fiendish four years of the public bemoaning the fact that the [Read More…]
