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The summer of 2023 exposed audiences to numerous out-of-the-box, female-led comedy movies, including No Hard Feelings (2023), Theater Camp (2023), Joy Ride (2023), and of course, Barbie (2023). After a slate of such innovative comedy films, it’s only right to close out the season with the “horniest, bloodiest high

Four theatrical movies across two days

This past summer, I proposed to my parents that we watch Emma Seligman’s comedy thriller “Shiva Baby” (2020). I waited for years since its release, fearful of my choice falling flat at their feet. I concentrated as much on my parents’ reactions as I did on the movie until the first guffaws broke out, to my great relief. We continued to laugh together at the same jokes, a proper blend of situational comedy and nail-biting anxiety. This felt like nothing short of a miracle after countless ...

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Raunchy comedies have had a difficult time at the box office this year. The Jennifer Lawrence comedy, “No Hard Feelings” was a middling success. The Asian “Girl’s Trip” film, “Joy

After decades of films that end in tragedy and leave gay women around the world walking out of theaters in tears, lesbians finally have their “Superbad” — and it’s the most entertaining movie of the year.  “Bottoms,” directed by Emma Seligman and starring Ayo Edebiri as Josie and Rachel Sennott as PJ, follows the story...

The high school-teen-sex-comedy is a universally adored subgenre. Our infatuation with the caricatures and inflated archetypes that live within the genre allow us to see ourselves in these awkward, and often embarrassing stories.  However, these films fail to spotlight the queer high school exper

Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) directs and co-writes with star Rachel Sennott this raunchy teen black comedy about two besties and lesbians—PJ (Sennott) and Josie (Ayo...

​Bottoms proves that we should all be dressing like lesbians

Remember back in 2002, when Hollywood tried to introduce us to mainstream female raunch with The Sweetest Thing, starring Cameron Diaz? The movie flopped, leading...