Writer-director Christy Hall’s “Daddio” is a smart and ambitious work [...]

Screenwriter Lauren Pomerantz and co-directors Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s “Am I Okay?” is an honest and well-written work about two best friends in their thirties, both of whom are having life-changing moments. Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and Jane (Sonoya Mizuno) have been besties for years. They know one another inside and out and can predict the other’s every beat and emotion. The two keep no secrets, save for one. Lucy is indeed keeping something from her friend, hiding the fact that

Many people are familiar with the Kinsey Report on sexual behavior, which rocked the establishment in the early fifties, but far fewer know about 1976’s Hite Report, which effectively described the frequency and variability of female orgasm. The report’s author, feminist researcher Shere Hite, was alternately celebrated and vilified for her writing, with media outlets often outwardly hostile to her research. But she pressed on, with other reports on