Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Google Assistant Ad With Macaulay Culkin Proves All Movie Plots Should Just Be Set in the Past Now
It only took three years since the first episode of Jack Dishel’s :DRYVRS for Macaulay Culkin to once more reboot another sendup of his most [Read More…]
Breast Pumps & Couture: The Lengths Celebrity Mothers Go to So As to Convince Us Child Birthing Is Worth A Damn
For the most part, it is mothers who bear the brunt of their child’s (or children’s) resentment. Something to do, perhaps, with coming directly from [Read More…]
While You Were Lusting, Brad Pitt Got Old
As far as “the last of the Hollywood icons go,” Brad Pitt remains one of the few still from an era we can only classify [Read More…]
“Plain” Girls Finish First When They Finish Last: Penny Marshall and That Head & Shoulders Commercial
Resuscitated of late even before Penny Marshall’s death on December 17th thanks to the joys of Instagram as the new Tumblr, a relic of a [Read More…]
The Master-Slave Model of Romance in Love Actually
As time moves further away from 2003 and the accepted flagrant sexism that came with it–paraded with perhaps the most glee of all in film [Read More…]
Ariana Grande’s “Imagine” Offers Lennon’s Utopian Ideals…For Relationships
As something of a companion piece in its oppositeness to the theme of “thank u, next,” Ariana Grande’s latest single, “Imagine,” would instead like to [Read More…]
Berlin & Amsterdam Imagery Collide in Betta Lemme’s “Give It”
Taking a somewhat divergent track from the single that launched her into the Italian limelight, “Bambola,” Betta Lemme’s latest single, called “Give It,” drips with [Read More…]
The Missed Opportunity to Take the Low Road in That “Thank U, Next” Version of the Burn Book
While most praised the very straightforward re-creation of four seminal 00s movies for Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” video, it has to be said that [Read More…]
If Selling Vacuity Is Wrong, Celeste Doesn’t Want to Be Right–And Neither Does the 21st Century: Vox Lux
Just before her career is about to skyrocket her into the realm of irrevocable fame that perhaps only a few pop stars with the rare [Read More…]
“I Should’ve Followed Your Example and Never Married”: Mary, Queen of Scots Gives One of Europe’s Most Complex Monarchs An Overdue Feminist Twist
While one would think that, based upon the previews, Mary, Queen of Scots was destined to be a more historically accurate foil to The Favourite [Read More…]
