Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Weight Loss Isn’t the Goal With the Santa Clarita Diet
Perhaps only Drew Barrymore could make tearing into human flesh with a plucky bite come across as mildly endearing. Or at least watchable. In the [Read More…]
Zelda & F. Scott: The Bonnie & Clyde of The Literary World in Z: The Beginning of Everything
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” For Zelda Sayre, the heart, apparently, could hold infinite amounts of tolerance [Read More…]
Not Super Bowled Over: Lady Gaga’s Patchy Halftime Performance
Though it was already to be expected that Lady Gaga wasn’t going to usurp (can’t use the word “trump” these days) any of the already [Read More…]
The Halftime Show Ended After 2012
The last time the Super Bowl was truly memorable for its halftime show–apart from the brief moment Beyonce allowed Michelle and Kelly to take the [Read More…]
Everything Is Copy Documentary Examines the Limits of Nora Ephron’s Philosophy on Art
The family mantra of the Ephrons, started by Nora’s screenwriter mother, Phoebe Wolkind, was simply this: “everything is copy.” That is to say, any pains [Read More…]
The Lure: Bitch, This Isn’t Splash
In spite of how beloved the mermaid is in folklore and on clothing, there is no “mermaid genre” per se in film. All we really [Read More…]
The NeverEnding Story: A Movie We Need Now More Than Ever
There are moments in life when you revisit a movie from the past, and have forgotten enough about it to view the film with entirely [Read More…]
No Good Can Come of Texting Lady Gaga
Just when you thought Kesha’s legal battles might finally be coming to a close, her longstanding issues with Dr. Luke get stoked anew in the [Read More…]
Winona Ryder’s Facial Expressions: An Emotional Color Wheel That Probably Needs to Be Made Into A Poster for Spanish Class
Awards shows are generally pretty banal these days, and we must glom onto the one meme-able moment we can find. At last night’s Screen Actors [Read More…]
Emmanuelle Riva, Mon Amour
Perhaps no other actress–apart from Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday–hit the jackpot as much as Emmanuelle Riva with her debut role as Elle in Hiroshima, [Read More…]
