Tag: Genna Rivieccio
Cameron Frye and Connor Roy: “My Old Man Pushes Me Around” No More!
Just as it is for the Roy family at large, for many viewers of Succession, Connor Roy (Alan Ruck) is pure background. It hasn’t really [Read More…]
Fatal Attraction: A Tragic Easter Movie for Rabbits
It’s said that Fatal Attraction is a cautionary tale about having an affair, but what few people fail to mention is how it qualifies as [Read More…]
Dark City: The Matrix’s Underappreciated Precursor
For some reason, Dark City remains little revered or appreciated not only as a standalone film, but as something of the unwitting source material for [Read More…]
Seymour Stein: The Last of a Dying Breed
Seymour Stein was of the old school in every way. Someone who ascended the ladder of an industry by starting at the bottom and pulling [Read More…]
A Gen Z Kind of Daftness: On Billie Eilish’s Lack of Awareness of Taylor Swift Singing “Picture to Burn” or What “Burn” Even Meant Within the Context
With each new generation that “comes up,” there is the constant accusation from previous ones that there has never been a worse sect of people [Read More…]
Symphorophiliac Is the New Black: Tove Lo Takes J. G. Ballard’s Crash to A Different Level in “Borderline”
When last we left Tove Lo’s jilted robot lover in the Alaska-directed video for Dirt Femme’s second single, “No One Dies From Love,” Annie 3000 [Read More…]
“There’s No Remedy For Memory”…Other Than to Drown In It: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg’s entire film career has been about going against the grain. Defying the expectation that a movie needs to be “big” in order to [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey Grapples With A New “Persona”—Middle-Age Angst—On Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
It seems fitting that Lana Del Rey would post and then delete a video (à la Britney) about persona on her Instagram the same day [Read More…]
The Obsession With Marking Time Through Pop Culture
In the past several years, it’s become more and more common to “celebrate” (or mourn) the passing of milestone anniversaries for films and albums. This [Read More…]
Swarm Crystallizes That Celebrities Are the New Gods, and There Is No Freedom of Speech When Speaking “Ill” of Them
For as much talk as there is of late about how “terrible” and “harrowing” it is to be a celebrity, perhaps the worst fate in [Read More…]
