Author: Genna Rivieccio
Even John Lennon In His Boy Band Days Couldn’t Buy In to the Lyrics of “Do You Want to Know A Secret?”
In 1963, The Beatles had finally succeeded in doing what no other “foreign” band had: cracking the U.S.A. (though Beatlemania wouldn’t reach its crescendo in [Read More…]
Ariana Grande Has Some Vengeance & Fury (& Sexuality) to Strike Upon Thee in “God Is A Woman” Video
As her third single and video (or second, if you want to look at “The Light Is Coming” as “promotional”), from the upcoming Sweetener album [Read More…]
Kulture Shock
Almost as surely as Beyoncé is arching her brow over Cardi B’s very poseur-ish baby gender and name reveal Instagram post, Kulture Kiari Cephus is [Read More…]
To Rome With Love’s Use of the Fellini Blueprint
As one of the most maligned of Woody Allen’s past ten years of back to back films (a feat he has sustained since he began [Read More…]
A Blemish on Hype Williams’ Work: “Bed” Video Has Nothing to Do With Sleep or Sex, So Much As Mermaids and F21 Style Inspiration
After much buildup and anticipation, Nicki Minaj finally bestowed the music video for “Bed” upon us, only to leave us a little bit high and [Read More…]
The Louvre’s Licking of An Asshole Already Filled With Tongues Persists With Tour “Inspired by Beyoncé and Jay-Z”
The Louvre had already joined in on the overflowing-with-tongues joint asscrack of Beyoncé and Jay-Z after giving them a bathetic assignation/nod on their Instagram account in [Read More…]
The Tourist As the Last Movie That Displayed Hitchcockian Glamor
Considering that Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has a name like Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (in truth, a name that’s even longer in the form of Florian [Read More…]
All the Women, Co-Dependent, Throw Your Hands Up At Me: Waiting to Exhale
Where the Bechdel test is concerned, there is no shortage of films, most especially from the final “glory days” of pre-#MeToo, that do not make [Read More…]
A Lot Like Love Is One of Many Mid-00s Rom-Coms That Offers A Fatally Dated Mistake In the Premise of Pursuit
While there are myriad problems with rom-coms in general, it seems that the zenith of their issues was at a certain peak in the mid-00s, [Read More…]
It’s Funny How A Postcard Can Change Your Life: Oh Lucy!
It’s almost a blessing and a curse when the appetite for affection you’ve suppressed for so long suddenly rears its urgent pangs. Such is the [Read More…]