Tag: Genna Rivieccio
Smile 2: Stars—They’re Just Like Us!, Or: Even Pop Stars Get Demonically Possessed
With such pressure to outperform the success of 2022’s Smile, writer-director Parker Finn wanted to approach the movie’s sequel from an entirely new angle. And [Read More…]
Shake, Shake, Shake (It), Anora, Or: Pretty Woman This Is Not (Unless One Is Referring to the $3,000 Version Of It)
By now, it’s no secret that Sean Baker is known for his keen ability to give insight into the world of a certain kind of [Read More…]
Harley Quinn Behavior Takes Hold in Suburbia: Lady Gaga’s “Disease” Video
While Lady Gaga’s current focus might be to shake the disease of Lee Quinzel after her foray into the DC Universe with Joker: Folie à Deux, [Read More…]
Every Subject That Nobody Wants This “Illuminates” Already Happened on Sex and the City
As though to prove a point about Sex and the City’s long-lasting impact, Megan Thee Stallion recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon [Read More…]
Lady Gaga Focuses on Shaking the “Disease” of “Lee Quinzel”
It doesn’t seem coincidental that Lady Gaga would opt to release a new single soon after the critical and commercial failure of Joker: Folie à [Read More…]
Masks! Innuendos! Double Cigarette Smoking!: Addison Rae’s “Aquamarine”
While Addison Rae might have only been five going on six years old when Aquamarine came out, clearly it must have had a lasting subliminal [Read More…]
Change Your Gender, (Maybe) Change Your Life: Emilia Pérez
If some story aspects of Emilia Pérez seem familiar, it’s because writer-director Jacques Audiard was inspired by a particular chapter in Boris Razon’s 2018 novel, [Read More…]
FKA Twigs’ “Perfect Stranger” Offers Only Pros to Meeting Strangers, While Madonna’s “Beautiful Stranger” Is More Cautiously Aroused
Madonna as the titular character in Desperately Seeking Susan once said, “Good going, stranger.” It seemed, in its odd way, to presage a song of [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Lets Her Projections Run Wild on “Perfect Stranger”
The theme of projection in romance seems to be trending at the moment. At least if one takes Dua Lipa’s “Illusion,” Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie [Read More…]
“…And Good Business Is The Best Art”: The Apprentice
Although director Ali Abbasi and writer Gabriel Sherman are certain to put a disclaimer title card at the beginning of The Apprentice that notes creative [Read More…]
