Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Hans Zimmer, You Ain’t Shit: RIP Ennio Morricone
In the annals of film score history, there will never be another like Ennio Morricone. Unless, of course, we’re looking at fellow Italian composers, like [Read More…]
Beauty and the Beast With BDSM: Why 365 Days Is Simultaneously Loved and Despised By Women
With the reckoning on how to portray male-female relationships in the wake of #MeToo, a film like 365 Days could, of course, never get made [Read More…]
Why Drop Dead Gorgeous is the Perfect 4th of July Movie Now More Than Ever
In 1999, America was still riding high on the buzz of its prosperity, wrought in large part by Bill Clinton, whose personal scandals overshadowed many [Read More…]
Grimes, You Okay?, Or: Why Does This Image of Elon Musk and Kanye West Look Like They’ll Shoot You If You Don’t Buy A Tesla and Some Yeezys?
As Kanye West continues to be chill in the role of douchebag white businessman’s ally (despite the irony of having recently released the racially charged [Read More…]
Selena Gomez Sweetly (Read: Naively) Posits There’s “A Sweeter Place” in New Video featuring Kid Cudi
With Kid Cudi suddenly trending like it’s the early 10s again (thanks to a certain borough-centric movie), it bears noting that Selena Gomez already pulled [Read More…]
Reign of Puerility: The King of Staten Island
It’s easy to be the king when not many people are vying for your dominion. In Scott Carlin’s (Pete Davidson) case, that would be Staten [Read More…]
Maybe Kanye Can Get His Bestie Trump to Listen to “Wash Us in the Blood”
While Kanye West has been visibly involved in the protests that have occurred in the wake of George Floyd’s death (in addition to donating two [Read More…]
Lady Gaga & Elton John’s “Sine From Above” Is 2020’s Ultimate Eurovision-Ready Song
Because Netflix’s recent Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga has gotten many thinking about the sonic and aesthetic themes of the long-running competition, [Read More…]
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Reunion Comes at a Time When the Overt Privilege of the Lead Character is Especially Icky to Look At
As the hotbed issue of privilege continues to manifest throughout the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, it seems irreverently (in)appropriate that the cast [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus Singing “Help!” On Top of a Giant Help! Sign in an Empty Stadium is a Whole Mood
Global Citizen, the organization currently best known for putting on the One World: Together At Home event in support of the World Health Organization and [Read More…]
