Tag: Genna Rivieccio
Landline: A 90s Period Piece That Assures Us Existential Crises Have Nothing to Do With Technology
Gillian Robespierre’s second feature film, Landline, is, in many ways, in keeping with the tone of her first, Obvious Child. And it isn’t just because [Read More…]
Royalty Attracts Royalty
For those smitten with the fairy tale romance of Prince Harry and “commoner”/biracial actress Meghan Markle, don’t get too taken in with the supposed grandiosity [Read More…]
The “Summit” That Defined a Decade: Happy Anniversary to The Paris/Britney/Lindsay Hangout Session
It was eleven years ago tonight that one wild evening in Hollywood sent the paparazzi of TMZ and beyond into a frenzy. An epilepsy-inducing amount [Read More…]
Gwen Stefani’s “Cool” Is Predicated on A False Concept
Some may argue that Gwen Stefani completely lost all of her edge when she traded in Gavin Rossdale for Blake Shelton, inexplicably People‘s Sexiest Man [Read More…]
Note to Paris: Madonna Invented the Blueprint for the Modern Selfie
As is the case with most things that Generation Z has come to take for granted, Madonna invented the blueprint for all the pop culture [Read More…]
Cady Heron Mutates Into Thea Clayhill in Labor Pains
Beginning her first foray into the TV movie world after success-turned-tabloid demise (Life-Size on the Disney Channel aired pre-height of Mean Girls fame), the Lindsay [Read More…]
It Should Happen to You: A Prescient Take on Modern Fame
The renowned “woman’s director” (that was derisive code for the open Hollywood secret of his sexuality), George Cukor was, by 1954, all too familiar with [Read More…]
I Know Who Killed Me: Lindsay Lohan’s Grown Up Version of The Parent Trap
By 2007, Lindsay Lohan had long ago lost the public’s interest in her actual acting. It was instead about what sort of tabloid fodder she [Read More…]
Murder on the Orient Express Reminds Us to Embrace the Gray Areas of Life
Remakes of classic films–and worse yet, classic films based on equally as classic books–tend always to be dicey. And even with Kenneth Branagh’s faithful rendering [Read More…]
Pet Shop Boys’ “Leaving” Speaks to A Perpetual Haunting by L’Amour Mort
The Pet Shop Boys release albums at a rate almost as impressive as Rihanna, and yet, for some reason, only their niche audience seems to [Read More…]
