“I’m a newspaperman!”: 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.

Action film in which a former soldier haunted by his past has to protect his family with his life.
"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.
The film basically says she was a lost cause from the start. We don't get a sense of who Marilyn was.
'Easy A' is emblematic of a world that liked to sarcastically pretend it was progressive but wasn’t actually ready for that change, making it pretty anti-sex.
Over the last several years, I have had the privilege of being one of the critics having the opportunity to watch and review several films from writer/director/producer Marcellus Cox, whose efforts are never anything less but grounded, relevant, and steeped in unflinching glimpses illustrating the gripping, inspired, and ever-vacillating realms that make up the human condition.