Tag: Genna Rivieccio
For Once, A “Charity Song” That Doesn’t Blow: Jenny Lewis’ “Under the Supermoon”
Despite a busy schedule of still promoting last year’s On the Line (which made Culled Culture’s cut for one of the best albums of 2019), [Read More…]
Like A Boss Doesn’t Do Much to Debunk The Myth of Women in Power Being Mondo Cunts
While, at face value, Like A Boss (directed by Miguel Arteta, who slightly damages his street cred with this movie after offerings like Beatriz at [Read More…]
Sisterhood Is A Bitch: Little Women
In a Midsommar-esque scene excluded from the latest adaptation of Little Women from Greta Gerwig, Winona Ryder as Jo March dancing around a maypole rues, [Read More…]
Embracing the Sleaze and Dancing Through the Apocalypse: Appreciating Ke$ha’s Animal Ten Years Later
Despite indications of the apocalypse/living in a simulation being manifest at the outset of 2010, Ke$ha decided to ignore those early signs of it by [Read More…]
Long Shot Short-Changes the Embracing of More Powerful Women in Relationships By Rendering the Narrative With Fairy Tale Flavor
In the realm of “modern” fairy tales, perhaps all we have to speak of in the present is Long Shot. A politically tinged comedy (or [Read More…]
Contemplating Something As Retro As What’s Your Number? Being Made Within the Past Decade
Despite 2011 being an early year in the decade that feels strange to call the 10s (even if some people speculate that the 00s never [Read More…]
Turns Out L.A. Even Makes Serial Killing Passive Aggressive: Season 2 of You
It feels rather meta appropriate that one, Joe Goldberg, sometimes known as Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), should end up in L.A. for the season two [Read More…]
Uncut Gems Has A Dull Luster
One could say that the Safdie brothers Benny and Josh were not truly born into the film industry’s consciousness until 2017’s Good Time, another New [Read More…]
It’s No Mystery That Knives Out Cuts to the Quick of Family Discord: Money
Rian Johnson has taken an approach to his career that few writer-directors do: slowly. Starting in 2005 with the acclaimed neo-film noir Brick (starring his [Read More…]
Bus Stop: A Film That Didn’t Do Justice to How Marilyn Monroe Fought to Break Free From the Studio’s Stereotype of Her, Nor Is It Much of an Acting Stretch From Her Own Life
Marilyn Monroe had spent months waiting out her unprecedented studio battle with 20th Century Fox. After fleeing to New York from Los Angeles like some [Read More…]
