DanceDirty Dancing (1987) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film about class and an illegal abortion, marketed as a summer romance. Made for five million dollars by people nobody expected anything from, and still running forty…
DramaNow, Voyager (1942) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A woman boards a cruise as her mother's property and comes back a person. The most famous cigarette in cinema, and a last line that refuses the ending…
ComedyGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two women on a transatlantic crossing, one openly interested in money and honest about it. Sharper about the economics of marriage than any film of 1953 had…
ComedyOut to Sea (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lemmon and Matthau as dance hosts on a cruise ship, in the last decent film the pair made together. Slight, warm, and carried entirely by forty years…
AnthologyThe Love Boat (1977-1987) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Nine seasons of guest stars falling in love on the Pacific Princess. Artistically negligible, structurally brilliant, and it rebuilt an entire industry.
DisasterTitanic (1997) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cameron built the ship at ninety percent scale, sank it, and hung the oldest story in the world off the side of it. The door problem is real. The…
DramaNot the thrill of immortality, not the hunt, not the gothic romance. What it offers instead is two ancient lovers, the crumbling cities they haunt, and the slow pleasure of their company.
ChristmasA department store Santa claims to be the real Kris Kringle, and a lawyer must defend him in court. Miracle on 34th Street is George Seaton's 1947 American Christmas drama about a department store Santa who claims to be the…
ChristmasWhite Christmas is Michael Curtiz's 1954 American musical depicting two World War II Army veterans turned singing act, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, who follow a sister act to a Vermont inn and discover the inn belongs to their former…
ChristmasAn Episcopal bishop praying for help with his cathedral project receives an angel who arrives to assist, though not in the way expected. David Niven plays Bishop Henry Brougham.
ChristmasTwo Budapest shop employees who can't stand each other are unknowingly falling in love through anonymous correspondence. The Shop Around the Corner is Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 American romantic comedy adapted from Miklós László's Hungarian play Parfumerie, depicting two Budapest leather-goods…
ChristmasA singer retires to a Connecticut farm and converts it into an inn that only opens on holidays, leading to a rivalry with his former dance partner. Holiday Inn is Mark Sandrich's 1942 American musical depicting Jim Hardy, a singer…
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