Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Search Party Unravels the Buildup to a Disappointment That Serves As A Metaphor for Modern Letdowns
It’s that thing that can’t seem to be avoided in any new show these days–that overarching theme: millennial ennui and lack of direction/purpose. While Search [Read More…]
Such A Mean Old Man, Such A Dirty Old Man: Bad Santa 2
The sequel is rarely a one-up of its original, except in the case of The Godfather: Part II and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. But, at [Read More…]
Gilmore Girls: Seasons Change, Drinking Intake Increases
It’s been almost a full decade since Gilmore Girls wrapped up its seventh and final season in May of 2007. For many fans, it was [Read More…]
Allied: Like if Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Inglourious Basterds Had a Baby
“French” Morocco, 1942. A man drops down in the middle of the desert by parachute, walks a while and gets into a car where he’s [Read More…]
In Another Country: “It Takes Courage For A Foreign Woman to Travel Alone”
In the endless arsenal of Isabelle Huppert movies, one of her most recent–from 2012–features, In Another Country, stands apart not just for how noticeably it [Read More…]
The Edge of Seventeen Often Feels Like The Edge of Thirty, Forty & Beyond
Billed essentially as the teen movie that’s been missing in our lives since Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman brought us 2007’s Juno, Kelly Fremon Craig’s The [Read More…]
Kristen Stewart and St. Vincent: Proof That Lesbianism Is Frequently A Straight Person’s Act of Desperation
Though Lindsay Lohan kind of blazed the trail back in 2008 with the whole straight woman randomly deciding to date another female trend, at least [Read More…]
Kanye West Cancels Rest of Tour Most Likely Because He Was Traumatized by Sacramento
Anyone who is not from Sacramento, who has not suffered the den of slack you experience the second from entering cannot possibly understand or empathize [Read More…]
L’amour Nocturne: Love is Dark as Night in Nocturnal Animals
“If you love someone, you work it out. You don’t just throw it away. You have to be very careful with it–you might not find [Read More…]
The Ghost of Kesha’s Early Career Infiltrates Britney Spears’ “Slumber Party” Video
Just when you thought Britney Spears would leave it at the “Make Me…” video in terms of promoting her last album, Glory, she goes and [Read More…]
