Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
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…]
Art Truly Is Subjective: Robin Leach Buys Britney Spears’ Infamous Flower Painting for 10K
They’ve always said art is subjective–yet is it, really? Because, objectively speaking, a piece of art ought to “move” someone, to use a banality. And, [Read More…]
Chuck Bass & Ed Westwick Converge Into One in the Wake of Rape Allegations
Season one of Gossip Girl was scandalous for a number of reasons, not least of which was its ad campaign. More than just highlighting bored [Read More…]
Jeune Femme: “I was everything to him, and now I’m nothing.”
It’s been an exceptional year for female film debuts (Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird at the forefront). And Léonor Serraille’s Jeune Femme (alternately called Montparnasse Bienvenue) is [Read More…]
The Florida Project: Exposing Celebration as the Vegas of the Sunshine State
It’s almost a rule of law that beneath the shiny, shellacked veneer of fun and good times, glitz and glamor, there lies a seedy underbelly. [Read More…]
Millie Bobby Brown As Emma Watson Part Deux (In Ways Both Good & Bad)
Now that Emma Watson is twenty-seven years old and has expended all Harry Potter movie roles, the world briefly thought there was a void where [Read More…]
Billy Hargrove: The Son of Steff McKee and Leo Johnson
The 80s douche bag archetype is nothing we haven’t seen made fun of before in recent years as the media predilection for irony and meta-ness [Read More…]
The Political Allegory of Stranger Things 2
Apart from being a conglomeration of just about every classic hour drama and quintessential 80s movie (including Freaks and Geeks, Twin Peaks, Close Encounters of [Read More…]
