“His Girl Friday”: Howard Hawks Softened A Political Satire Into A Proto-Feminist Romcom
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.

A grieving mother and daughter who retreat to a remote farmhouse for Christmas, only for a mysterious package to unleash a malevolent force that turns their family reunion into a fight for survival.
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
Unfortunately, People We Meet on Vacation didn’t hold up quite as well as I’d hoped.
Alongside A Drowning Man, I Signed The Petition, 3 Logical Exits, and A World Not Ours, A Man Returned continues to paint a realistic portrait of the Refugee Crisis that eschews the Western gaze and stereotype. These are real portraits painted by a director with lived experience, cultural connection and an amazing eye for visuals.
White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.
A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.
It is not hard to make a musical biopic that pleases audiences and draws a profit. Michael is no exception.