Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Forever 21 Pulls an Urban Outfitters-League Move With “Don’t Say Maybe If You Want To Say No” T-Shirt
Ah the controversial world of cheaply made clothing. There’s never a dull moment–though the last time we had this much excitement was probably when Urban [Read More…]
Flaked: Like A More Jank Version of Californication–In A Good Way
As Netflix keeps the barrage of original series coming, Flaked is one that has come to the website with little fanfare, lacking the same level [Read More…]
Love Is A Losing Game, But A Winning Show
There’s no denying that Paul Rust is having a moment right now. Seemingly rising out of nowhere from the ranks of the Upright Citizens Brigade [Read More…]
Grandma, An Indication of The 21st Century-Style Matriarch
As time goes on, the conventional perception of the archetypal “granny”–an aging hag with a hunched back, glasses and bad hearing–continues to wane. Paul Weitz’s [Read More…]
Black Mass: Another Gangster Movie to Fall Into The Abyss of the Genre
Like the action/adventure genre, the gangster movie always means a box office draw for Hollywood. One supposes that’s why ever since The Godfather was released, [Read More…]
Bad Chemistry & Fairly Good Music Comprise Tumbledown
As the rom-com becomes evermore stigmatized, it’s easy to understand why screenwriters like Desiree Van Til would try to go outside the norm of the [Read More…]
Trumbo, Or: Hedda Hopper Was A Bigger Cunt Than Perez Hilton
For as glamorized as Hollywood’s Golden Age tends to be, it was a dark time for most writers and actors in the business subject to [Read More…]
Like So Many Pop Culture Moments From the 90s, “As If” Was Grafted From the Gays
Upon reviewing the recently released list of Hollywood’s 100 Favorite Movie Quotes, it’s clear that Clueless is the only representative of “the youth” on the list (there [Read More…]
Nancy Reagan Might Be Dead, But Her Pop Culture Forming Anti-Drug Message Lives On
Nancy Reagan, just as much as Ronald Reagan, was very much responsible for shaping the oppressively conservative decade that was the 1980s. But, like her [Read More…]
Mr. Holmes Finds Yet Another Way to Reinvent Old Sherlock
“Exceptional children are often born to unremarkable parents.” Such are the abrupt ways of the near senile Sherlock Holmes (played with just the right amount [Read More…]
