Tag: Genna Rivieccio
I Am Chris Farley Gets You Into The Skin of One of the Greatest Comics of All-Time
“We realize perfectly well that all the characters that we play are really subsets of ourselves. They’re just ourselves in slightly different moods, ourselves carrying [Read More…]
Nick Lachey: Jessica Simpson’s Least Favorite Mistake
On TV, it would appear that Nick Lachey was the one who had to suffer through and endure the often vacuous antics of Jessica Simpson. [Read More…]
Hermès Prostrates Itself Before Apple
What is the world coming to when Hermès, the pinnacle of high fashion and luxury, feels obliged to enter into a partnership with Apple, the most [Read More…]
Grace Jones Throws Shade/Calls Every Other Female in Music Shit–And Is Largely Right
If anyone in the music industry is allowed to throw shade, it’s Grace Jones. Unlike, say, Kim Gordon, who called out Lana Del Rey–“who doesn’t [Read More…]
Something Rings False About True Story
With a movie title like True Story, it’s no surprise that, yes, it’s based on a true story–incidentally, a book based on a true story. [Read More…]
Selena Gomez’s “Good For You” Transports Us Back to the Early 20th Century
Just as Britney Spears’ “Born to Make You Happy” serves as an anthem for women of the 1950s, now Selena Gomez’s “Good For You” is [Read More…]
Far From The Madding Crowd: A Faithful Adaptation That’s Still All Its Own
In general, movie adaptations–especially ones that have already been done before–rarely offer anything new to enliven or enrich the original literature on which they are [Read More…]
Tom at the (Funny) Farm
Xavier Dolan’s fourth film (and only now at the still tender age of twenty-six), Tom at the Farm, is the sort of narrative that might [Read More…]
The Second Mother: A Many-Layered Title & Film
Brazilian writer-director Anna Muylaert’s fourth film, The Second Mother, is a multi-layered film not just about the pratfalls of motherhood, but the complications of class division when emotions [Read More…]
Zhe Zhe: The Mighty Boosh for Brooklyn
It’s impossible to dream that the two girls in Brooklyn concept phenomenon could continue to propagate. Granted, there are varying degrees of those shows worth watching, [Read More…]
