Tag: Genna Rivieccio
The Florida Project: Exposing Celebration as the Vegas of the Sunshine State
It’s almost a rule of law that beneath the shiny, shellacked veneer of fun and good times, glitz and glamor, there lies a seedy underbelly. [Read More…]
Millie Bobby Brown As Emma Watson Part Deux (In Ways Both Good & Bad)
Now that Emma Watson is twenty-seven years old and has expended all Harry Potter movie roles, the world briefly thought there was a void where [Read More…]
Billy Hargrove: The Son of Steff McKee and Leo Johnson
The 80s douche bag archetype is nothing we haven’t seen made fun of before in recent years as the media predilection for irony and meta-ness [Read More…]
The Political Allegory of Stranger Things 2
Apart from being a conglomeration of just about every classic hour drama and quintessential 80s movie (including Freaks and Geeks, Twin Peaks, Close Encounters of [Read More…]
Being Martha Plimpton as Monica in 200 Cigarettes
Martha Plimpton is known for few film roles beyond that of Stef Steinbrenner in The Goonies, later transitioning more primarily to theater and Broadway work and [Read More…]
That Probably Don’t Impress Madonna Much: Kourtney & Kim K’s Halloween 1991 Oscar Homage
The Kardashian-Jenner brood is no stranger to dressing like other celebrities for Halloween (see: Kylie Jenner’s version of Christina Aguilera from the “Dirrty” video)–after all, [Read More…]
Why Jennifer’s Body Deserves More Credit As A Halloween Movie (& In General)
In 2009, the world, pop culturally, was feeling a little more radical. The U.S. had just come out from under what it previously thought was [Read More…]
Blackout & Its Relationship to the Tabloid Culture of the 00s
In 2007, Britney Spears was having a bit of a downward spiral. And for the first time in pop culture history, the media was not [Read More…]
Et tu, Molly Ringwald?
The title “Ain’t She Sweet” in the May 26, 1986 issue of TIME (still endlessly relevant in the 80s) describing the state of Molly Ringwald [Read More…]
Sign of the Times: The Two Names in One Phenomenon
Katie Rose. Dylan Zane. Sarah Faye. Anthony Ray. Taylor Jane. John Paul. Jamie Lynn. Hailey Marie. Shit, any name + Marie. The two names in [Read More…]