Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
L’amour N’existe Pas: The Dissolution of Chris Pratt and Anna Faris
In truth, we might have all seen this coming with couples like Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, or Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but even [Read More…]
Gypsy: Like If Big Little Lies Were Set in New York & All Three Characters Were Rolled Into Naomi Watts
There’s a reason the trope about therapists being the most fucked up ones of all exists. And if there’s any solid pop culture evidence of [Read More…]
Dunkirk: A Philosophy of Ethics Landmine
Like all requisite major Hollywood war movies that come about roughly every five to ten years, the deaths in Dunkirk set the stage of urgency [Read More…]
Jeanne Moreau, Apex of An Iconic Bizarre Love Triangle
Coming on strong after the one-two punch of his debut and sophomore films, The 400 Blows and Don’t Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut followed up [Read More…]
Kesha Learns to Let Go Via Nostalgia in Latest Video
It’s true that sometimes we have to marinate in and examine the past in order to truly free ourselves of it. That’s just what Kesha [Read More…]
“I’m Not Here to Collect Postcards”: The Atomic Blonde Who Came in From the Cold of London & Into the Fire of Berlin
If you thought times of political tension were anything new, Atomic Blonde is the perfect slick, yet cheeky action, yet historical film to remind you [Read More…]
John Heard: Beyond His Role As National Daddy
John Heard’s death on July 21st dredged up the role that he was, of course, most known for: “the dad from Home Alone” a.k.a. Peter [Read More…]
Home From the Hill: A Smorgasbord of Dramatic Irony
The assignation of Vincente Minnelli to a film as melodramatic and father/son-centric as Home From the Hill seemed, at first, out of place in the [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life Remains Unquestioned on New Album
Lana Del Rey, sometimes billed as the U.S. Morrissey, may have a reputation for being all doom and gloom, her now ample arsenal of albums [Read More…]
The Ballad of Kermit the Frog
Steve Whitmire is the man you weren’t aware you knew all these many decades (sort of like Alan Greenspan, at one point). The longtime voice [Read More…]
