Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Dick Is the Root of All Evil: Thelma and Louise As Eerie Smoke Signal for #MeToo
When one watches Thelma and Louise, at least one of the cinephile persuasion, all that can be thought is: who is the woman that wrote [Read More…]
Ed Earl Dodd: A Man Who Doesn’t Exist
There is the fantasy of a man. The kind primarily dreamed of by a fallen woman who still holds, underneath it all, loose dreams of [Read More…]
Ariana Grande’s “Better Off” Is Extremely Awkward to Listen to Now
With the music world in shock over the death of Mac Miller due to (a somewhat inevitable) overdose (something Demi Lovato has continued to succeed [Read More…]
Anything Cardi Did Solange Did Better
The altercation between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj (instigated by the former) that occurred at the Harper’s Bazaar ICONS party in honor of New York Fashion [Read More…]
The Trumpian “Stress” Response Is Just So White Male Cliche
Europe has been forced to lay claim to its fair share of doltish and unworthy rulers (King George III, Pope John XII, King John, Caligula–are [Read More…]
Smokey and the Bandit Spotlights Burt Reynolds’ Declaration of Sally Field Being the Love of His Life
In what would be one of the last interviews ever given by a so healthy-appearing Burt Reynolds (that’s the thing about cardiac arrest though, it [Read More…]
The Spy Who Dumped Me Perpetuates the Myth That We Can All Live Well If We Take Risks
In keeping with the new Hollywood feminism that Ocean’s 8 kicked off at the beginning of the summer (everything now being a roundabout reaction to [Read More…]
Ocean’s 8, Greek Tragedian Vengeance & the New Hollywood Feminism
While it is easy to write Ocean’s 8 off as another pile of slop in the Hollywood trough, there is, from the outset, a certain [Read More…]
Kesha At Last Has A Redeeming Collaboration Under Her Glittered Belt With The Struts’ “Body Talks”
Kesha, at this point, is anything but a stranger to the collaboration. In point of fact, her entire career was founded on being uncredited as [Read More…]
Juliet, Naked Continues the Aging Musicphile Tradition of Films Based on Nick Hornby Novels
Nick Hornby has become that rare breed of novelist so omnipresent in popular culture as a result of his work’s frequent adaptations to film that [Read More…]
