“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.

Tattah’s one unlucky mall guard whose life gets even more complicated after running over a cat and getting cursed for it; he also affects Faten,the woman he secretly loves with the same curse, making life even more difficult.
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
Stevan Lee Mraovitch’s film is a beautiful tribute to family, found family, and the lengths people will go to support their loved ones.
Treated like a granter of wishes for those earning out of retelling the same tragedy, Marilyn looks like she's caged in different stages of trauma for us to stare at, instead of someone we’ve finally allowed to rest in peace.
For the entirety of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marion remains in full control of both her body and her personality, a rarity for female characters at the time of the film’s release. She’s granted depth with personal demons from her past and emotional vulnerability when the situation deems it appropriate for her to grow alongside Indy. She avidly rejects the notion of being anything other than a sassy, humane rebel, and Indy’s equal in every way. This she does while still maintaining her femininity.
This Japanese Anime movie is about Kanna, a young girl who sets on a quest across Japan to discover her true identity.
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.