Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame Keeps a Looser Rein on Her Boy Toy Than Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
What’s worse than being an aging woman? An aging woman who used to be lusted after by the masses as a film star. While this [Read More…]
Angela Lansbury as the Ultimate Frivolous Woman in Blue Hawaii
As far as movies that are hard to watch for their overt misogyny go, Blue Hawaii is one of the ones that increasingly takes the [Read More…]
Leave Tony Bennett Alone
The internet, always the ideal tableau to find oneself amid vitriol at the drop of a hat, has taken aim at Tony Bennett in the [Read More…]
24K Magic: A Patrick Bateman-Tailored Song Buttressing an Album of the Year Win in A Trump Reign
Patrick Bateman is the figure–the monster masquerading around as a sentient human being–that perpetually seems to crop back up in modern life, no matter how [Read More…]
Awards Shows Continue to Suffer the Girls Effect (& Only Blue Ivy Seems to Notice)
Like a time when a woman could live scot-free in exchange for being verbally abused and cheated on, it’s hard to imagine an era in [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey’s Method Increasingly Channels Madonna’s
The comparison of Lana Del Rey to Madonna isn’t necessarily a likely one–especially considering Del Rey’s largely tween/Tumblr fandom has little respect for any god [Read More…]
Ghost Has Nothing on A Ghost Story in Terms of Haunting Devotion
The budget for Jerry Zucker’s 1990 classic, Ghost, was 505.7 million dollars. The budget for David Lowery’s A Ghost Story was 100,000 dollars. When watching [Read More…]
Dawson’s Creek Interpretations That Try Too Hard to Fit the Political Mold of Now on Its Twentieth Anniversary
With a number of “celebratory” “think pieces” out at the moment about Dawson’s Creek in honor of its twentieth anniversary, the current climate of needing to [Read More…]
Everyone’s a Trigger: Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang
Getting older, a topic of discussion that seems to grow chicer with each passing Diane Keaton movie. For Lily Allen, “ancient” by white girl pop [Read More…]
From Meek to Mogul: The High Priestess of Print Journalism Gets Her Due in The Post
Spielberg. Streep. Hanks. Though some might slightly roll their eyes at the Oscar-baiting (which, as we recently found out, was, indeed, taken by the Academy) [Read More…]
