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A film still featuring two protagonists of Bottoms, PJ and Josie, in a school gym looking to the side, looking bewildered. PJ has a slight black eye and a bandaid on her nose.
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Bottoms is unabashedly gay, unhinged, and bloody

Emilio Gutierrez September 28, 2023

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, technically, it does; it’s a…

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A woman with long hair tied back and a linen neutral colored shirt leans onto a kitchen counter, pensively looking down. The door is open and shows a wide open field outside.
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Klondike is an introspective look into the Ukrainian war’s beginning

Emilio Gutierrez July 5, 2023

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 hands of Russian-backed…

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