Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
The Divide Between American & European Views on Family Underlines All the Money in the World
An impressive feat in moviemaking alone for the quickness with which Ridley Scott was able to replace Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer (a much more [Read More…]
The Best Movies of 2017 (For Real!)
In a year that saw the movie industry crumble as it once knew itself under the weight of sexual assault accusations as heavy as Harvey [Read More…]
Why 200 Cigarettes Remains the Most Enduring New Year’s Eve Movie of All-Time
200 Cigarettes isn’t just the best, most essential New Year’s Eve movie because it’s the only New Year’s Eve movie in a genre that tried [Read More…]
Problems of the Present and Past Plague Black Mirror’s Increasingly Futuristic Season 4
“End fucking game!” So the sentiment of the very first episode, “USS Callister,” of Black Mirror season four indicates the collective desire to exit from [Read More…]
“The Legend of a Man-Fish”: The Shape of Water at Last Finds The Creature From the Black Lagoon Vindicated
“Time is but a river flowing from our past.” This is the first “thought of the day” we’re confronted with as mute cleaning woman Elisa [Read More…]
Circe & Psychology: The Feminist Undertones of Molly’s Game
While the criticism levied specifically at Jessica Chastain–as opposed to the other white actresses she appeared on the tone deaf cover of The Los Angles [Read More…]
The Greatest Showman Suffers From the Same Problems as P.T. Barnum
There are two ways to look at P.T. Barnum: a man promoting diversity during a time when it was unheard of to do so or [Read More…]
The Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as Inspiration to Us All
Perhaps at the time–1992–there was no scarier fate to any gender than ending up a homeless, middle-aged woman. That being said, the now iconic Pigeon [Read More…]
The Unwarranted Malignment of Madonna’s Version of “Santa Baby”
It’s been said that “Santa Baby” is one of those songs that never needed to be re-recorded after its original Eartha Kitt version in 1953. [Read More…]
A Few Potential Motives for Mariah Returning to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve
Usually, when one makes a very public faux pas, like, say, coming unannounced onto TRL in an oversized shirt and pretending to sell ice cream, [Read More…]
