There’s nothing worse than revisiting one of your favorite comedies from the past, a movie that’s brought you nothing but joy and laughter time and time again, only to realize in the cold light of adulthood…it kind of sucks. Have you changed so much over the years? Have you lost some spark of innocence and levity that once burned bright within? Or is it the movie that’s changed? Maybe that super questionable joke or character or premise isn’t holding up like it once did? Who were you to ever laugh at these things? Why did you ever like this???
Well, thanks to FilmStruck, you don’t have to worry about answering any of these questions. These timeless comedies, available to stream now, not only hold up, but have gotten even better with age. Let go of the fear and rediscover some of your old favorites.
Well, thanks to FilmStruck, you don’t have to worry about answering any of these questions. These timeless comedies, available to stream now, not only hold up, but have gotten even better with age. Let go of the fear and rediscover some of your old favorites.
- 3/30/2018
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
To mark what would have been Cary Grant’s 113th birthday, watch a scene featuring the super-smooth comedy maestro opposite Rosalind Russell in comedy classic His Girl Friday. Directed by Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday has Grant playing cynical newspaper editor Walter Burns, whose star reporter and ex-wife Hildy Johnson is about to embark on her second marriage; Walter sets out to sabotage the wedding and win Hildy back
• His Girl Friday is out now on Blu-Ray
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• His Girl Friday is out now on Blu-Ray
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- 1/18/2017
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
The restoration of a newly rediscovered director’s cut of the 1931 The Front Page prompts this two-feature comedy disc — Lewis Milestone’s early talkie plus the sublime Howard Hawks remake, which plays a major gender switch on the main characters of Hecht & MacArthur’s original play.
His Girl Friday / The Front Page
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 849
Available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 10, 2017 / 39.96
His Girl Friday:
1940 / B&W /1:37 flat Academy / 92 min.
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen, Helen Mack, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert, Marion Martin.
Cinematography Joseph Walker
Film Editor Gene Havelick
Original Music Sidney Cutner, Felix Mills
Written by Charles Lederer from the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Produced and Directed by Howard Hawks
The Front Page:...
His Girl Friday / The Front Page
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 849
Available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 10, 2017 / 39.96
His Girl Friday:
1940 / B&W /1:37 flat Academy / 92 min.
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen, Helen Mack, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert, Marion Martin.
Cinematography Joseph Walker
Film Editor Gene Havelick
Original Music Sidney Cutner, Felix Mills
Written by Charles Lederer from the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Produced and Directed by Howard Hawks
The Front Page:...
- 1/3/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Editor's note: Due to a dispute with Scott Rudin, lead producer on The Front Page, The Hollywood Reporter's chief theater critic was prevented from attending a preview performance with a purchased ticket, and disinvited to opening night, so this review is appearing later than those of other outlets. Playing Walter Burns, the pugnacious bulldog managing editor of Chicago's Herald-Examiner, Nathan Lane doesn't enter until an hour and 45 minutes into The Front Page. But in a performance that's a master class in the art of the ferocious farceur, Lane causes the energy level to skyrocket and stay aloft throughout
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- 10/23/2016
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Criterion Collection has announced its slate for January, 2017, with offerings from Howard Hawks (“His Girl Friday”), Rainer Werner Fassbender (“Fox and His Friends”), Jack Garfein (“Something Wild”), and Ousmane Sembène (“Black Girl”). Check out the covers for the films below as well as synopses provided by the Criterion Collection. For more information on the special features and technical specs of each of these films, visit the Criterion Collection website.
Read More: The Criterion Collection Announces December Titles: ‘Heart of a Dog,’ ‘The Exterminating Angel’ and More
“His Girl Friday” (Available January 10)
One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, “His Girl Friday” stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop...
Read More: The Criterion Collection Announces December Titles: ‘Heart of a Dog,’ ‘The Exterminating Angel’ and More
“His Girl Friday” (Available January 10)
One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, “His Girl Friday” stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop...
- 10/14/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Nathan Lane will play tabloid editor Walter Burns, with John Slattery as his star reporter Hildy Johnson in a Broadway revival of the classic newspaper comedy The Front Page, slated for the fall. Scott Rudin will produce the 1928 play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which was inspired by their years as Chicago journalists. It takes place entirely in the press room of Chicago's Criminal Courts Building, where hacks from various city papers play poker and swap wisecracks while waiting to cover a big case that takes an unexpected turn. Directing the revival is Jack O'Brien, giving him two
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- 3/29/2016
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
So, we’ve arrived at the top 20, slowly creeping toward those films that are exactly what a romantic comedy should be. We’ve seen films that fall into the category, but lean more toward other genres. We’ve seen romantic films that are funny enough to be comedies, but don’t entirely represent the spirit of the rom-com, despite being brilliant films. Now, we form a clearer picture of what a romantic comedy is. Not all of the films in this section are necessarily “good,” but they’re all iconic, definitive romantic comedies (hence their inclusion). Memorability does not necessarily come partnered with quality. It means right place, right time.
courtesy of totalfilm.com 20. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Tom Hanks had been the leading man in romantic comedies before (e.g. Splash). But the same year he took home his first Oscar (Philadelphia), he also starred opposite Meg Ryan in this...
courtesy of totalfilm.com 20. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Tom Hanks had been the leading man in romantic comedies before (e.g. Splash). But the same year he took home his first Oscar (Philadelphia), he also starred opposite Meg Ryan in this...
- 1/10/2016
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
For the sake of this particular movie column let’s just consider the media types of news personalities, journalists and reporters as interchangeable. With that in mind Newsmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will look at some of cinema’s top inquirers in the name of getting down to the nitty-gritty in bringing the truth to the forefront.
The movies have intensely, if not sometimes comically, showcased those characters that felt justified in reporting their newsworthy findings in the name of riveting entertainment. Whether spotlighting real-life newsmaker and shakers such as legendary luminaries in Edward R. Murrow to Watergate busters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein or profiling parodies of probing journalists as Natural Born Killer’s Wayne Gale it has been a trippy ride in witnessing cinematic reporters and their excitable exploits.
Perhaps Newmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will be irresponsibly...
The movies have intensely, if not sometimes comically, showcased those characters that felt justified in reporting their newsworthy findings in the name of riveting entertainment. Whether spotlighting real-life newsmaker and shakers such as legendary luminaries in Edward R. Murrow to Watergate busters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein or profiling parodies of probing journalists as Natural Born Killer’s Wayne Gale it has been a trippy ride in witnessing cinematic reporters and their excitable exploits.
Perhaps Newmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will be irresponsibly...
- 2/14/2015
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
Walter: Now, look Bruce. You persuade Hildy to do the story and you can write out a nice fat insurance policy for me.
Today is the 75th Anniversary of the premiere of Howard Hawks classic His Girl Friday (1940). Here's a double sided bitchy moment to savor in which Walter Burns has dangled an insurance policy carrot for Bruce, who doesn't bite but Hildy does, eyeing the green while milking Walter for a bigger payday. Walter feigns objection, while egging Hildy on...
Today is the 75th Anniversary of the premiere of Howard Hawks classic His Girl Friday (1940). Here's a double sided bitchy moment to savor in which Walter Burns has dangled an insurance policy carrot for Bruce, who doesn't bite but Hildy does, eyeing the green while milking Walter for a bigger payday. Walter feigns objection, while egging Hildy on...
- 1/11/2015
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The movie journalist is always caught up in scandal, gossip and invasions of privacy. Though plenty of movies have been made about authors, poets, and other writers, the physical act of writing and editing rarely makes it into Hollywood journalism. Thankfully, the more sensational aspects of media have made for scathing satire and commentary, loathsome anti-heroes, and pulpy, investigative reporting that the camera loves.
This week’s Nightcrawler features Jake Gyllenhaal as a crime journalist in L.A., but he’s more Travis Bickle than Anderson Cooper. Even other films released this year have fit the template of being more about something else than actually about journalism, from a theater critic in Birdman trying to destroy Riggan Thompson’s career to Jeremy Renner in Kill the Messenger about how noble voices get squashed.
The best movies about journalism are more than the newsroom politics, so in honor of Nightcrawler’s release,...
This week’s Nightcrawler features Jake Gyllenhaal as a crime journalist in L.A., but he’s more Travis Bickle than Anderson Cooper. Even other films released this year have fit the template of being more about something else than actually about journalism, from a theater critic in Birdman trying to destroy Riggan Thompson’s career to Jeremy Renner in Kill the Messenger about how noble voices get squashed.
The best movies about journalism are more than the newsroom politics, so in honor of Nightcrawler’s release,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
To anyone familiar with the many Hollywood newspaper comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, of course, this swell of alarmism about contemporary journalism will no doubt seem amusing. Diminished standards, ethical bankruptcy, the easy propagation of mistruths—this conception is nothing new. Let’s consider the history. In 1928, former reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur wrote The Front Page, a hugely popular Broadway comedy which satirized the unscrupulousness of the newspaper business. The play concerned the efforts of Walter Burns, the ruthless editor of a big-city daily, to orchestrate the last-minute exoneration of a criminal sentenced to be hanged, which he hopes will both secure his paper a landmark exclusive and convince his former star reporter to return to the masthead once more. Its best-known adaptation, His Girl Friday, would arrive in 1940 courtesy of Howard Hawks. But Lewis Milestone's 1931 version remains perhaps the more influential: its success ushered in...
- 8/26/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
To anyone familiar with the many Hollywood newspaper comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, of course, this swell of alarmism about contemporary journalism will no doubt seem amusing. Diminished standards, ethical bankruptcy, the easy propagation of mistruths—this conception is nothing new. Let’s consider the history. In 1928, former reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur wrote The Front Page, a hugely popular Broadway comedy which satirized the unscrupulousness of the newspaper business. The play concerned the efforts of Walter Burns, the ruthless editor of a big-city daily, to orchestrate the last-minute exoneration of a criminal sentenced to be hanged, which he hopes will both secure his paper a landmark exclusive and convince his former star reporter to return to the masthead once more. Its best-known adaptation, His Girl Friday, would arrive in 1940 courtesy of Howard Hawks. But Lewis Milestone's 1931 version remains perhaps the more influential: its success ushered in...
- 8/26/2014
- Keyframe
So, we’ve arrived at the top 20, slowly creeping toward those films that are exactly what a romantic comedy should be. We’ve seen films that fall into the category, but lean more toward other genres. We’ve seen romantic films that are funny enough to be comedies, but don’t entirely represent the spirit of the rom-com, despite being brilliant films. Now, we form a clearer picture of what a romantic comedy is. Not all of the films in this section are necessarily “good,” but they’re all iconic, definitive romantic comedies (hence their inclusion). Memorability does not necessarily come partnered with quality. It means right place, right time.
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20. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Tom Hanks had been the leading man in romantic comedies before (e.g. Splash). But the same year he took home his first Oscar (Philadelphia), he also starred opposite Meg Ryan in this...
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20. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Tom Hanks had been the leading man in romantic comedies before (e.g. Splash). But the same year he took home his first Oscar (Philadelphia), he also starred opposite Meg Ryan in this...
- 2/3/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
“Walter, you’re wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way”
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in one of the fastest-talking screwball comedies–make that movies–ever made. His Girl Friday is a clever script teeming with fab dialogue, delivered by a top-notch cast, and captured by one of the best directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age; Howard Hawks. You can see His Girl Friday this Saturday morning (May 10th) at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater as part of their Classic Film Series. It’s Saturday, May 10th at 10:30am at the Hi-Pointe located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, Mo 63117.
Admission is only $5.
The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake...
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in one of the fastest-talking screwball comedies–make that movies–ever made. His Girl Friday is a clever script teeming with fab dialogue, delivered by a top-notch cast, and captured by one of the best directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age; Howard Hawks. You can see His Girl Friday this Saturday morning (May 10th) at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater as part of their Classic Film Series. It’s Saturday, May 10th at 10:30am at the Hi-Pointe located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, Mo 63117.
Admission is only $5.
The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake...
- 5/6/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This is one in a series of Tony nominee snapshots in the lead-up to the awards Sunday night.
When it comes to actors and journalists, John Lithgow knows a thing or two. The two-time Tony winner has been doing the former for more than 40 years, and played the latter four times in that stretch. Come Sunday, he'll have another shot at best leading actor in a play for his latest turn portraying real-life journalist Joseph Alsop in David Auburn's "The Columnist."
While the play has been received with almost perfect indifference, journalists reserved their shiniest lines for the role Lithgow went nude for. "It's a testament to Lithgow's magnetism that the scenes without him seem like rude interruptions from the main event," one reviewer noted. Another posited that "he may be doing his best stage work."
Despite the warm sentiments for Lithgow, winning on Sunday would still be an upset.
When it comes to actors and journalists, John Lithgow knows a thing or two. The two-time Tony winner has been doing the former for more than 40 years, and played the latter four times in that stretch. Come Sunday, he'll have another shot at best leading actor in a play for his latest turn portraying real-life journalist Joseph Alsop in David Auburn's "The Columnist."
While the play has been received with almost perfect indifference, journalists reserved their shiniest lines for the role Lithgow went nude for. "It's a testament to Lithgow's magnetism that the scenes without him seem like rude interruptions from the main event," one reviewer noted. Another posited that "he may be doing his best stage work."
Despite the warm sentiments for Lithgow, winning on Sunday would still be an upset.
- 6/6/2012
- by Gazelle Emami
- Huffington Post
We love a chamelonic director here at The Playlist, and Howard Hawks was one of the first, and one of the best. Across a 55-year career that spanned silents and talkies, black-and-white and color, Hawks tackled virtually every genre under the sun, often turning out films that still stand as among the best in that style. Romantic comedy? Two of the finest ever. War? "To Have And Have Not" and "Sergeant York," the latter of which won him his only Best Director Academy Award nomination (though he did win an Honorary Award in 1975, two years before his death). Science-fiction? The much ripped-off "The Thing From Another World." Gangster movies? "Scarface," which practically invented a whole genre. From film noir and melodrama to Westerns and musicals, Hawks took them all in his stride.
The filmmaker famously said that the secret to a good movie was "three great scenes and no bad ones,...
The filmmaker famously said that the secret to a good movie was "three great scenes and no bad ones,...
- 5/30/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Chicago – The popular image of the newspaper reporter screaming into the phone with a hot scoop most likely began with the popular and oft-produced stageplay, “The Front Page.” Timeline Theatre of Chicago presents an essential restaging of the classic with superior attention to period detail.
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
This is also a true blood Chicago story, staged originally in 1928 and written by two former reporters in the Windy City, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The stink of politics, corruption of the legal system and the men who reported on these topics permeate the atmosphere of the serio-comedy, set in the days when Chicago had nine circulating newspapers, including the now defunct Daily News and the still surviving Tribune.
The story opens in the press room of the municipal courtroom building, where the denizens of the various Chicago newspapers are killing time before covering an impending execution. The accused, Earl Williams (Rob...
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
This is also a true blood Chicago story, staged originally in 1928 and written by two former reporters in the Windy City, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The stink of politics, corruption of the legal system and the men who reported on these topics permeate the atmosphere of the serio-comedy, set in the days when Chicago had nine circulating newspapers, including the now defunct Daily News and the still surviving Tribune.
The story opens in the press room of the municipal courtroom building, where the denizens of the various Chicago newspapers are killing time before covering an impending execution. The accused, Earl Williams (Rob...
- 4/25/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A Db is found in a spring. Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) comments they're all named 'Anthony' and in cement shoes. Ray (Laurence Fishburne) comments on it being a sulphur spring and if bathed in, can provide a beautiful complexion. Brass remarks that the Db's complexion has improved. The Db has an 'L' shaped wound on his head which Ray explains means his head was hit with a pistol. David (David Berman) says the water's nice. Ray believes he was dead when he hit the water or afterwards. Nick (George Eads) thinks it's a body dump. Ray thinks the Pmi was about 4-7 hours and takes a water sample. Just as in last week's episode, Ray, Nick and Brass are called to the Cs together again. Nick spots an oil deposit on the ground, probably from the vehicle that dumped the Db. Also like last episode, Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) and...
- 3/15/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Christie photo by Walter Burns/Obama photo by Pete Souza.New Jersey governor Chris Christie is America’s most popular acting politician, according to a new Quinnipiac survey. “The poll asked respondents to rate, on a scale of 1-100, how favorably they viewed a number of political figures on a ‘national thermometer,’” according to Talking Points Memo. “Christie posted the top marks of active politicians with an average rating of 57, slightly better than Obama’s 56.5. First Lady Michelle Obama topped the list overall at 60.1, followed by former President Bill Clinton at 59.2.” Quinnipiac’s Web site doesn’t really explain Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton’s inclusion on the list—or a mid-Atlantic first-term governor’s, for that matter—other than grouping them as “people who have been in the news.” Anyway, what is it that everyone likes so much about Governor Christie? For answers, we turned to the comments section...
- 3/7/2011
- Vanity Fair
Howard Hawks's films – The Big Sleep, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby – are among the most enjoyable ever made in Hollywood, with sublime performances by Bogart and Grant and Bacall. Just don't call him an 'artist'. By David Bromwich
Howard Hawks took legitimate pride in a certain professionalism, but "artist" and "work of art" were alien terms for him. He appreciated the wit of Faulkner's saying to him the first time they met: "I've seen your name on a check."
Setting it up and putting it together, working with actors and the script: these were his elements of film. Hawks knew what a cameraman should do – Lee Garmes brought to Scarface the desert surface Hawks knew he wanted – but he made no pretence about placing lights or finding angles. He was an experimenter whose greatest successes were happy accidents. The standard genres – comedy, melodrama, western, film noir – he took...
Howard Hawks took legitimate pride in a certain professionalism, but "artist" and "work of art" were alien terms for him. He appreciated the wit of Faulkner's saying to him the first time they met: "I've seen your name on a check."
Setting it up and putting it together, working with actors and the script: these were his elements of film. Hawks knew what a cameraman should do – Lee Garmes brought to Scarface the desert surface Hawks knew he wanted – but he made no pretence about placing lights or finding angles. He was an experimenter whose greatest successes were happy accidents. The standard genres – comedy, melodrama, western, film noir – he took...
- 1/15/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Christie photo by Walter Burns/Obama photo by Pete Souza.Quick, who’s more popular: Barack Obama, America’s endlessly embattled president, or New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who was recently introduced to a crowd that included Paul McCartney as a “true rock star”? According to The Hill, “[v]oters in the Garden State split over Christie's performance, with 46 percent giving him a positive approval rating and 44 percent giving a negative rating.” President Obama’s approval rating, according to a national poll conducted by CNN, is 48 percent. Shocking new research, presented below, suggests that actual approval ratings have no bearing on each man’s reputation in the media.
- 12/21/2010
- Vanity Fair
Howard Hawks, 1940
The movie that launched the careers of a thousand journalists, convinced that newspapers meant flirtation, dazzling, rapid-fire wit and lots of smoking, not to mention editors resembling Cary Grant. This was the second screen version of Hecht and MacArthur's popular stage play, The Front Page, brilliantly directed by Howard Hawks, who, in a moment of inspiration, decided the Hildy Johnson character would work better as a woman. So Hildy, played with superb comic timing by Rosalind Russell, is now the ex-wife of Grant's unscrupulous Morning Post editor Walter Burns, as well as his star reporter.
When Burns gets the news that she is forsaking journalism to marry a dull insurance man and move to Albany in upstate New York, he is determined to sabotage her plans. Then he lays a scoop on her plate, involving an impending execution and political corruption, that he knows she won't be able to resist.
The movie that launched the careers of a thousand journalists, convinced that newspapers meant flirtation, dazzling, rapid-fire wit and lots of smoking, not to mention editors resembling Cary Grant. This was the second screen version of Hecht and MacArthur's popular stage play, The Front Page, brilliantly directed by Howard Hawks, who, in a moment of inspiration, decided the Hildy Johnson character would work better as a woman. So Hildy, played with superb comic timing by Rosalind Russell, is now the ex-wife of Grant's unscrupulous Morning Post editor Walter Burns, as well as his star reporter.
When Burns gets the news that she is forsaking journalism to marry a dull insurance man and move to Albany in upstate New York, he is determined to sabotage her plans. Then he lays a scoop on her plate, involving an impending execution and political corruption, that he knows she won't be able to resist.
- 10/18/2010
- by Killian Fox
- The Guardian - Film News
Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is a calculating, conniving, fast-talking editor who will do anything to keep his star reporter from leaving his newspaper. Now, it just so happens his star reporter is also his ex-wife, Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), and when he learns she is going to quit the paper to marry dull, reliable, doe-eyed Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy), Walter's machinations go into overdrive. He convinces her to stay in town long enough to write one last story and he contrives every plot short of murder (which is not to say he isn't above it) to separate Hildy...
- 10/9/2010
- by Michael Ballard, Long Beach Classic Movies Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, and arguably the most comprehensive ranking system on the Internet.
It’s because of this that we at HeyUGuys (and in this case, we, is myself and Gary) have decided to set ourselves a project. To watch and review all 250 movies on the list! We’ve frozen the list as of 1st January this year. It’s not as simple as it sounds, as we’ll be watching them in one year, 125 each.
This is our fifteenth update, a rundown of my next five movies watched for the project.
(You can find last week...
It’s because of this that we at HeyUGuys (and in this case, we, is myself and Gary) have decided to set ourselves a project. To watch and review all 250 movies on the list! We’ve frozen the list as of 1st January this year. It’s not as simple as it sounds, as we’ll be watching them in one year, 125 each.
This is our fifteenth update, a rundown of my next five movies watched for the project.
(You can find last week...
- 5/3/2010
- by Barry Steele
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Hold the front page and admire Rob Streeten's clippings file of the best film morsels featuring cool correspondents and deadline junkies, then suggest some column inches of your own
Reporters, whether they're of the fictional or based-on-real-life variety, not only make film terrific characters but also provide movies with a ready-made narrative driver. Following a newshound new to a story excuses otherwise awkward exposition as the audience learns with the protagonist.
We can love their integrity as it sweeps them towards the truth as much as we are exasperated by their bullheadedness as they pursue a story regardless of the consequences. In the movies, journalism has propelled the action as a corrupt administration is brought down, as well as provided cover for the identity of a superhero.
It is the cinematic device that can put familiar characters in unfamiliar environments and drive them to the heart of drama. The quick...
Reporters, whether they're of the fictional or based-on-real-life variety, not only make film terrific characters but also provide movies with a ready-made narrative driver. Following a newshound new to a story excuses otherwise awkward exposition as the audience learns with the protagonist.
We can love their integrity as it sweeps them towards the truth as much as we are exasperated by their bullheadedness as they pursue a story regardless of the consequences. In the movies, journalism has propelled the action as a corrupt administration is brought down, as well as provided cover for the identity of a superhero.
It is the cinematic device that can put familiar characters in unfamiliar environments and drive them to the heart of drama. The quick...
- 1/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
By now, you've had your fill of ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night. You've cleaned up pumpkin guts, peeled off your skin along with your spirit gum prosthetics, hoping OxyClean gets fake blood stains out of your carpet. You need a movie with class, wit, and Cary Grant. You need Howard Hawks' classic His Girl Friday, which is playing right now on SlashControl.
There's nothing I can say about this movie that hasn't already been said. Rosalind Russell's Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson remains one of the gutsiest heroines to ever grace the silver screen, and the fact that Cary Grant's Walter Burns loves her for her byline makes him one of the sexiest men of all time. The romance, the scheming, and the race to the presses will still leave you dizzy and laughing. Oh, and let's not forget the clothes. Oh, to spend...
There's nothing I can say about this movie that hasn't already been said. Rosalind Russell's Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson remains one of the gutsiest heroines to ever grace the silver screen, and the fact that Cary Grant's Walter Burns loves her for her byline makes him one of the sexiest men of all time. The romance, the scheming, and the race to the presses will still leave you dizzy and laughing. Oh, and let's not forget the clothes. Oh, to spend...
- 10/31/2009
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- Cinematical
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