Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
I Know Who Killed Me: Lindsay Lohan’s Grown Up Version of The Parent Trap
By 2007, Lindsay Lohan had long ago lost the public’s interest in her actual acting. It was instead about what sort of tabloid fodder she [Read More…]
Murder on the Orient Express Reminds Us to Embrace the Gray Areas of Life
Remakes of classic films–and worse yet, classic films based on equally as classic books–tend always to be dicey. And even with Kenneth Branagh’s faithful rendering [Read More…]
Pet Shop Boys’ “Leaving” Speaks to A Perpetual Haunting by L’Amour Mort
The Pet Shop Boys release albums at a rate almost as impressive as Rihanna, and yet, for some reason, only their niche audience seems to [Read More…]
The Platinum Monogamists
They say monogamy can’t exist anymore. That’s it’s more extinct even than the dodo. And, in point of fact, everywhere you look this does seem [Read More…]
Lena Dumb-bum: Self-Proclaimed Feminist Stands By Former Girls Writer Accused of Sexual Assault
Like Lady Gaga collaborating with R. Kelly on the unfortunately titled “Do What U Want With My Body” and then backpedaling by switching to feature [Read More…]
Lady Bird As Frances Ha Origin Story
Sacramento doesn’t often grace the frames of well-financed, well-acted films (there’s been the way under the radar Other People with Molly Shannon as the only [Read More…]
My Friend Dahmer Details the Pre-Serial Killer Era of An Adolescent In Need of a Connection
Though serial killers are always ultimately painted as gruesome non-human caricatures when the body count tally finally gets publicized, there is almost always a backstory [Read More…]
Taking Cues From Her Sacramento Forebears, Didion and Ringwald, Greta Gerwig Adds to the Parsimonious List of Abashed Love Letters to the City
As Greta Gerwig’s directorial and solo writing debut, it’s only right that she should go for the most autobiographical subject possible: the California capital city [Read More…]
Attempting to Appeal to Straights: The Downfall of the Trixie and Katya Show
Drag queens aren’t—nor will they ever be—renowned for not being completely and totally amenable to corporate whoredom. That’s what they strive for, in fact. The [Read More…]
Loving Vincent (Is Easy Through the Lens of His Art)
The tortured life of Vincent Van Gogh has long been discussed, examined and held up as a beacon of the ultimate definition of what it [Read More…]
