Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Note to Paris: Madonna Invented the Blueprint for the Modern Selfie
As is the case with most things that Generation Z has come to take for granted, Madonna invented the blueprint for all the pop culture [Read More…]
Cady Heron Mutates Into Thea Clayhill in Labor Pains
Beginning her first foray into the TV movie world after success-turned-tabloid demise (Life-Size on the Disney Channel aired pre-height of Mean Girls fame), the Lindsay [Read More…]
It Should Happen to You: A Prescient Take on Modern Fame
The renowned “woman’s director” (that was derisive code for the open Hollywood secret of his sexuality), George Cukor was, by 1954, all too familiar with [Read More…]
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…]
