“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.

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
This list was made with the intention of celebrating comedic craft and a love of seeing more women of colour and newcomers on the scene.
On the Road captures the bleak, hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking in Northern Mexico, where anything can and will happen. A hard-boiled, neon-noir romantic thriller, it shows the gritty reality of roadside diners, truck stops, and truck cemeteries alongside the expansive, breathless beauty of the Mexican desert highways.
The Weight is highly recommended, will transport you back to its Great Depression-era setting and will have you rooting for the protagonist harder than most films this year
The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.
A historic documentary about the iconic Disney character gives viewers a glimpse into animation.