Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
It’s No Mystery That Knives Out Cuts to the Quick of Family Discord: Money
Rian Johnson has taken an approach to his career that few writer-directors do: slowly. Starting in 2005 with the acclaimed neo-film noir Brick (starring his [Read More…]
Bus Stop: A Film That Didn’t Do Justice to How Marilyn Monroe Fought to Break Free From the Studio’s Stereotype of Her, Nor Is It Much of an Acting Stretch From Her Own Life
Marilyn Monroe had spent months waiting out her unprecedented studio battle with 20th Century Fox. After fleeing to New York from Los Angeles like some [Read More…]
LDR Does Some Live Action/Animation Blending for a Mary Poppins Effect in Norman Fucking Rockwell Video Trilogy
One of the many bottom lines of Lana Del Rey’s latest video (one-upping the double video concept of “Fuck It I Love You” and “The [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s “Make My Wish Come True Edition” of “All I Want For Christmas” Is Equal Parts Instagram Experience and Busby Berkeley Ripoff
As Mariah Carey continues to cash in on being the “Queen of Christmas” overseeing a Christmas empire to the tune of, as of now, sixty-plus [Read More…]
The Best Albums of 2019
Perhaps even more than film and TV this year, the music released was a reflection of the collective’s headspace, still filled with apocalyptic overtones and [Read More…]
You Can’t Make A Canary Sing Once You’ve Killed It: Judy
As far as Hollywood horror stories, few match Judy Garland’s (save for Marilyn Monroe’s, also a relier on barbiturate use to function non-functionally). Plucked from [Read More…]
U.S. Government Is A Lot Like That Orgy Scene in Sausage Party
Anyone who saw Sausage Party in 2016 can never forget its haunting and climactic food orgy scene in which all the foods formerly divided by [Read More…]
Papa Don’t Die: Danny Aiello Will Forever Be One-Half of the Electra Complex Manifestation in the 1986 James Foley-Directed Madonna Video
As people reflect on Danny Aiello’s film legacy, citing his infamous improv’d line in The Godfather II (“Michael Corleone says hello!”), as well as his [Read More…]
Stay Up Till “4ÆM” With Grimes’ Bollywood Stylings
At this point pulling a Charli XCX maneuver and releasing most of her songs before the album is even out (that album being Miss_Anthropocene, available [Read More…]
Kesha Goes the “Bed Peace” Route in “Resentment” Video (Featuring Brian Wilson & Sturgill Simpson & Wrabel, Just Not in the Video)
After the release of faster-paced singles, “Raising Hell” and “My Own Dance,” Kesha has offered the requisite slow jam in her arsenal from the forthcoming [Read More…]
