Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Love Means Never Telling Someone You’re Crippled, Emotionally or Otherwise: An Affair to Remember
In the tropes of both life and cinema, it is touted that true love means not only never having to say you’re sorry, but also [Read More…]
MARINA Likens the Incongruities of Love to Celebrity on “Superstar”
Not to be confused with Madonna’s own “Superstar” (which featured backing vocals from Lourdes Leon) from 2012’s underrated breakup record MDNA, MARINA has given us [Read More…]
The Frances Ha Philosophy of Soul Mates in My Brilliant Friend
Perhaps in some way it’s no coincidence that Frances Ha (with Lady Bird secretly serving as the eponymous character’s origin story) was released to theaters [Read More…]
Blame It On Daddy: Clean Bandit feat. Ellie Goulding’s “Mama” Video
Though it is an oversimplification that parents are perhaps ultimately the root of all evil when it comes to the children they hath wrought (here’s [Read More…]
“You Know What Successful People Do? They Move On”: But That’s Too Much to Ask For a…Destroyer
Another story about a cop in L.A., another tale of moral corruption. Of course, that’s what Karyn Kusama’s latest film, Destroyer, is about on the [Read More…]
Madonna Takes on the Character of Her Truth or Dare Persona for 1990 Iteration of Maternalness
Sucking on her candy of choice in those days–a Mike and Ike–she says, “I think I have unconsciously chosen people that are emotionally crippled in [Read More…]
No, Green Book Shouldn’t Have Won Best Picture… But That Doesn’t Mean BlacKkKlansman Should Have Either
While it’s just another normal year when the Academy has both disappointed and opted to revert to its usual pattern of falling for a movie [Read More…]
Olivia Colman Forgot to Thank Sophie Chapman for Leading Her to Effectively Play a Queen Bitch
A complex, more than slightly emotionally unstable heroine that makes multiple people vie for her affections? Well, of course that was what Sophie Chapman was [Read More…]
In the League of Jeff Gillooly: Jussie Smollett
As though 1994 were alive and well again (though unfortunately not in the sense that a Clinton is in office), Jussie Smollett (who no one [Read More…]
Don’t Forget About Lorde: Before thank u, next Melodrama Was The Post-Breakup Go-To
With Ariana Grande’s cathartic (not just for her either), recently released and record-shattering thank u, next, it’s easy to forget that it was just two [Read More…]
