“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.

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"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
Mona Fastvold’s nineteenth century lesbian romance is emotionally charged, restrained, and poetic without feeling forced.
It's not love. It's Obsession. The hook of this movie is the tension between wanting to be loved and the fear of being all-encompassed by that love. It plays on men’s typical (though certainly not universal) inner-conflict
'City of God' depicts the cylindrical cycle of violence that is forced upon the underprivileged.
Bong Joon Ho’s masterpiece, Parasite (2019) became one of the few international films to break into the American mainstream.
Only time will tell what this new Black Panther and movie will show us with all of the old and new elements of the superhero craft integrated.