Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
When It Comes to Heart Transplant Rom-Coms, Stick With Return to Me, Not Last Christmas
In the annals of heart transplant “rom-coms,” there are very few to choose from. Arguably beginning with 1993’s Untamed Heart starring Christian Slater and Marisa [Read More…]
“We’re in the end of art, human art.”: Grimes’ “My Name Is Dark” Ties In Nicely to Her Latest AI Takeover Theory & Battle With Humanoid Zola Jesus
As Grimes gets deeper and deeper into the behind closed doors world of Silicon Valley and all of its nefarious inner workings thanks to full-time [Read More…]
A Siciliano Vero Who Betrayed Cosa Nostra: Il Traditore
For a story like notorious traitor Tommaso Buscetta’s, a director as seasoned as Marco Bellocchio makes sense for Il Traditore. Even if he is a [Read More…]
That Night: A Long Island Romeo and Juliet
In 1961, there wasn’t much in the way of excitement on Long Island (there still isn’t really). For ten-year-old Alice Bloom (Eliza Dushku, in her [Read More…]
The Woeful Lament of Everything Both Specifically and Generally Coming to an End on Pet Shop Boys’ “Burning the Heather”
“End” seems to be the word that most accurately sums up the motif of Pet Shop Boys’ forthcoming fourteenth studio album. For it’s even the [Read More…]
Kesha Won’t Be A Marionette (Or a Clone) in “My Own Dance”
As Kesha continues to roll out the singles leading up to the release of High Road in January, she wants us to know that while [Read More…]
Life As Manifested By Madonna Sitting In A Tub of Ice While Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” Plays
As though preparing to enter battle, Madonna proceeds to throw punches at the open palms of her presumed boy toy du moment, Ahlamalik Williams (who [Read More…]
The Snubbing of Madame X By the Grammys Is Something of a Compliment
While even Barbra Streisand managed to get a nod from the Grammys (for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album thanks to Walls), noticeably lacking from the [Read More…]
Allie X Has the Unfortunate Displeasure of Walking Among “Regulars” in Latest Video
Ambling in a stupor with a laundry basket in hand in what looks like a peak example of strip mall-laden California and all the bleakness [Read More…]
“The 80s Will Live on Forever”–Unfortunately Freshest in People’s Minds in the Version Presented in the Finale of AHS: 1984
Seeing as how the ninth season of American Horror Story—1984—started out with such satirical wryness, maybe it can be no surprise that it had to [Read More…]
