Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
How Rihanna Crept Into Music As A Pop Princess Before Snapping Her Fingers & Becoming @badgalriri
While “Pon De Replay” might have been one of the summer anthems of 2005, it was the sort of Sean Paul-reminiscent track that could have [Read More…]
National Anthem: The Politicism of Lana Del Rey Before Lust for Life
Lana Del Rey has generally been regarded as an artist that was not very political in her work up to 2017’s Lust for Life, an [Read More…]
The Color Wheel Takes the Margot/Richie Dynamic Where Wes Anderson Wouldn’t
The steady presence of Alex Ross Perry in the world of what can still vaguely be constituted as “indie film” (once associated only with Miramax-distributed [Read More…]
Black Panther: A Polemic That Can At Last Creep Into More Closed Minds
As one of the most momentous films released since, well, let’s face it, Gone With the Wind, Black Panther has an infinite amount of pressure to stand up [Read More…]
The Endangered Species That is The Comedy Movie in Hyper-PC Times
With the recent backlash against the trailer for Amy Schumer’s upcoming film, I Feel Pretty, which premiered yesterday on The Ellen Show, an alarming trend [Read More…]
A Futile and Stupid Gesture Usefully Explores the Life & Death of Doug Kenney
Of all the people who you wouldn’t expect to have a biopic made about them, Doug Kenney is among the men who top the list. [Read More…]
The Woeful Portrayal of Willie Lopez
You wouldn’t be able to identify Rick Aviles by his true name on sight. No, you would, if you were a movie aficionado worth your [Read More…]
Life Is Only Precious When It’s In Peril: Cléo from 5 to 7
Following La Pointe Courte in 1955, considered by many to be a foreshadowing of the full-tilt French New Wave movement, Agnès Varda’s second feature, Cléo from [Read More…]
If Lana Del Rey Can Put A Car Into Space, So Can Elon Musk
In 2015, on the day of Lana Del Rey’s “High by the Beach” single release, an interview detailing her passion for the work of Elon [Read More…]
John Mahoney Is Not the Dad From Frasier, He’s the Dad From Say Anything…
It’s generally accepted that anyone who watched Frasier (and especially anyone who still watches it) is kind of a fucking weirdo. Not “sophisticated” like Frasier (Kelsey [Read More…]
