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Bottoms is unabashedly gay, unhinged, and bloody
Peak Web September 28, 2023By: Emilio Gutierrez, SFU Student When I first read the synopsis of Emma Seligman’s Bottoms — two girls start a fight club at their high school to meet girls and lose their virginity — I thought I knew what I was in for. I expected a queer take on the edgy high school comedy formula, and some of the magic found in Seligman and Rachel Sennott’s (Bottoms’ co-writer and lead) previous collaboration, Shiva Baby. I walked out of the theatre pleasantly surprised. At a quick glance, Bottoms would seem like it fits under the high school comedy genre label. And,…
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Klondike is an introspective look into the Ukrainian war’s beginning
Peak Web July 5, 2023By: Emilio Gutierrez Content warning: mentions of war. On February 22, 2014, the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, from office in response to months of Euromaidan protests over government corruption. Not soon after, armed insurgency at the…
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