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Happy Pride! Not going to lie, it definitely feels a bit, I don't know, intense to celebrate Pride this year, given everything that's going on in the world. Which is why for this iteration of Popverse Picks, I wanted to bring together three queer romantic comedies that have a feel-good vibe to them. I don't know about you, but I could really use a laugh right now.  

All of these films are also written and directed by women! How about that? 

Bottoms

Behold: the funniest high school movie ever made. In Bottoms, Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edibiri play two socially awkward lesbians trying to court their crushes, who they're pretty sure are straight girls. Due to a misunderstanding, Sennott and Edibiri's characters get the attention of their crushes when a rumor spreads that they killed a girl at juvie over the summer. Thus, the girls form an afterschool fight club overseen by a teacher played by none other than Marshawn Lynch. When their crushes join their fight club, will our two heroines win their hearts for good, or destroy their friendship in the process? Directed by Emma Seligman, who co-wrote the script with Sennott, Bottoms is destined to become a classic. The film also features the funniest, and longest, use of Complicated by Avril Lavigne in cinema history. It's wild, it's wacky, and above all, hilarious. 

Lisa Frankenstein

I was going to put down Jennifer's Body on this list before I remembered that screenwriter Diablo Cody also wrote this wonderful film directed by Zelda Williams. So if you were going to watch Jennifer's Body this month (because why wouldn't you?!), be sure to also add Lisa Frankenstein to the list! In the film, a high school girl named Lisa ends up resurrecting the corpse of a Victorian boy she's fallen in love with (at least, the bust of him in the local cemetery), and it all goes up from there. You might be wondering what is exactly queer about this premise, but trust me, just watch the film. It had me screaming in joy. 

Saving Face

Saving Face is an Asian American classic at this point. A young Chinese American lesbian named Wil finds out that her mother, Hwei-lan (played by Joan Chen from Twin Peaks!), is pregnant. To make matters even more complicated, Hwei-lan has to move in with Wil, because she's been kicked out of her parents' (Wil's grandparents') house! As just about any Chinese American woman can tell you, the relationships between mothers and daughters in our culture is intense to say the least (not to mention, the pressures faced by women in Chinese culture is whew). Director-writer Alice Wu renders Wil and Hwei-lan with a sense of emotional depth that makes Saving Face an important film in Asian American and queer cinema. 

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