Top-Grossing Movies of 2016. Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 2016. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money.
Top Romantic Destinations in the Northeast USARomantic picnic along Ocean Drive in Newport, Rhode Island. The Getaway Mavens have been hard at work, collecting and organizing the best two and three day escapes in the Northeast USA (Virginia to Maine). Choose one (or all) and snuggle up: CONNECTICUTGREENWICH CT: This swanky Connecticut town is so much more than just the center of the Preppy Handbook universe. Known for its hedge fund billionaires, Captains of Industry and Hollywood types, Greenwich does not broadcast its considerable tourist assets, many of which, ironically, are inexpensive or free.
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Why is it on this “Romantic Spots” list? Because of J- House, a high- tech, artsy, green former Howard Johnson’s that has just unveiled the brand new J- Spa encompassing one former guest room gutted and now dedicated to Couples Spa Treatments. J- House is the only boutique hotel in town and such a Maven Favorite, it’s earned its own review HERE. OLD LYME, CT: Morning fog in Old Lyme CT transforms the landscape into the hazy tableau of an impressionist painting in the very place considered the Birthplace of American Impressionism. In the late 1. 89. Florence Griswold opened her home to American artists fresh from studying in France, forming the country’s first European- style Art Colony – an “American Giverny”.
Wavy- voiced actress, Katharine Hepburn lived in the Fenwick neighborhood until her death in 2. Out on “the point,” The Saybrook Point Inn and Spa just opened Three Stories– its new “Boutique Inn” – in addition to the hotel’s already luxurious accommodations. Learn about Saybrook Point’s earlier incarnation as Terra Mar, frequented by Hollywood luminaries and gangsters, and some cherished African American history on this surprisingly down- to- earth but high- class Connecticut coastal Getaway. CLINTON/MADISON, CT: no fudge shops or glitz and glamour here – just serpentine rivers, a quaint harbor, an anachronistic winery, a rustic flower and animal farm, one of the most highly regarded indie bookstores in the country, Connecticut’s only beachfront lodgingt, The Madison Beach Resort, and the best lobster roll on the East Coast. CHESTER/HADDAM, CT ON THE CONNECTICUT RIVER: Performing, fine and culinary artists, as well as clothing and building designers have been drawn to this mesmerizing ribbon of water, the Connecticut River, for centuries and after indulging in this Getaway you’ll see why. Some of the best artists and chefs in the region create in local kitchens and studios and since it reopened in 1.
Victorian confection that is the Goodspeed Opera House has sent 1. Broadway. See a musical, shop in one- of- a- kind (inexpensive) designer boutiques and end the day with an exquisite meal. WETHERSFIELD CT: If you and your honey love to curl up with the latest Revolutionary War history book, get all gooey eyed over George Washington’s sleeping quarters, or even fantasize about growing Heirloom vegetables from seeds, you’ll love meandering around this very Historic District, just a few miles from Hartford, which offers two charming B& B’s, great restaurants, authentically restored pre- and- post Colonial homes, and two of the oldest packaged seed companies in the USA still in operation.
CONNECTICUT’S NORTHWEST BORDER: There’s a reason some of our favorite celebs have homes up here. Far from the maddening Hampton’s Season, the pace in this farmland and lakes section of Connecticut is slow and quiet. Quiet, that is, except for Lime Rock Racetrack (preferred by Paul Newman until he couldn’t race anymore in his early 8. You and your lover will love Falls Village Inn, with rooms done by NY City Interior Designer, Bunny Williams.
HIDDEN VALLEY B& B, WASHINGTON DEPOT CT: This is one of the most romantically situated B& B’s in the world – perched over the Litchfield Hills. Every room in this Dutch Colonial house on the hill is a delight for the eyes. And just wait till you see the expansive and breathtaking stone patio. Just a couple of hours from NYC, it’s worlds apart.
DELAWAREINN AT MONTCHANIN VILLAGE, DE. Once housing the laborers who worked at the Hagley Powder Mills nearby, you can’t help but feel a sense of irony as you meander down “Privy Lane” – original latrines line the street where upscale guest cottages now stand. I’d wager the only upmarket lodging in America that features outhouses as a design element, The Inn at Montchanin Village maintains its historic value while providing you and your crush with the highest degree of service, amenities – and whimsy.
REHOBOTH BEACH DE: Contemplate your relationship over soft custard ice- cream or great boardwalk fries on this Atlantic beach- getaway. A great LGBT- friendly town, incredibly good restaurants, sand and surf – it’s a summertime classic. It’s a lower- key, Mid- Atlantic version of Provincetown MA. LEWES, DE: Do you like a riot or color? A renovated “fisherman’s motel” now a Dogfish Head outpost? Or do you and your honey love the classic inn or B& B?
You can have your pick in this eminently walkable, boutique- studded, fishing- charter, great restaurant town at the terminus of the Cape May (NJ) – Lewes Ferry. Beyond The Mask Poster (2015) Watch Free Online on this page. MILFORD/DOVER DE: Do you bond over history?
Big military planes? Cool crafts? Try this eclectic getaway, and stay in Asian- Antique grandeur in a turnaround town winning kudos for its exquisite riverfront walkway and award- winning Arts and Crafts Gallery.
The best choice on the East Coast for dog- loving duos. LUBEC ME: This Getaway, to Lubec and Eastport ME, and FDR’s summer cottage on Campobello Island, brings you to the easternmost land in the United States, with a short foray into Canada. Yes, it’s all the way up here. Or Down Here – to coin a “Downeast” phrase: a good ten hours from New York City or 7 from Boston.
But so totally worth it. It’s beautiful and welcoming, especially to cute couples, but be sure to bring your Passport! SCHOODIC PENINSULA ME: Are the two of you in sync about nature and hiking by hate crowds? Infinitely more more secluded, Schoodic encompasses 3,5. Acadia National Park, with ferry and bus access to the bulk of it on Mount Desert Island. The small towns of Winter Harbor, Birch Harbor and Prospect Harbor are all located on Schoodic, so on this Getaway, you’ll experience nature in its rustic glory, and if you’re game – a few “Pickled Wrinkles.”CASTINE AND BLUE HILL PENINSULA ME: And, here’s more for the crowd- averse couple.
Far off the well- trod Route 1, visiting Castine ME and the Blue Hill Peninsula is another great escape from the hordes. Just an hour from booming Bar Harbor, time seems suspended here, especially around Castine’s Town Green– a whitewashed series of buildings that include the Unitarian Church, Town Hall, and Historical Society – and the waterfront, not much more than a couple of restaurants and docks.
SEARSPORT AND ISLESBORO ME: Dine in intimate splendor and stay at a grand Sea Captain’s mansion, and then poke around a sleepy island just offshore on this unique lesser- known- Maine getaway. ROCKLAND ME: For the art- aficianoados who love Wyeths and lobsters, and a chance to stay in a hot new boutique hotel. PHIPPSBURG PENNINSULA ME: The Sebasco Harbor Resort becomes a multi- generation hub in the heat of the summer, but come off season, and this waterfront resort is prime for romantic couples seeking peace and quiet. Plus, there’s more to explore just 2. But Bath is just 1. Bowdoin Museum of Art.– So, gear up for a great getaway full of American History, Art, and Recreation on this often overlooked portion of Coastal Maine.
FREEPORT ME: Love to shop? LL Bean, open 2. 4/7, is headquartered here. And you can stay in Ole Yankee luxury at the Harraseeket Inn. BOOTHBAY ME: Boothbay Harbor ME was the first “off- Route- 1 town” that became popular with tourists on the Maine Coast, and, centered in “Mid Coast Maine” is quicker to get to than Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park to the northeast.
The 2. 5 Most Romantic Movies of the Last 2. Years. Before movies learned how to talk, they learned how to kiss.
In 1. 89. 6, just a few months after the invention of film and more than a quarter century before sound came to cinema, Thomas Edison’s company released “The Kiss,” an 1. May Irwin and John Rice. First they lean, then they nuzzle. Then Rice adjusts the ends of his enormous mustache.
Then they exchance a series of chaste pecks. The film was a scandal and a smash. From that moment forward, movies and romance were eternally intertwined. Movies have gotten longer and more complex, but almost all of them have remained close to this primal impulse; the pleasure of observing people in love. Over a century later, the staff of Screen. Crush is celebrating Valentine’s Day by collecting some of our favorite movie romances of the past 2. After compiling a shortlist of every conceivable possibility since 1.
Screen. Crush’s writers and editors each picked their personal favorites. Those favorites became a shorter shortlist, which was then voted on a second time to arrive at the ranking you’re about to see below. The films that follow are comedies and dramas, and feature relationships that end happily and tragically. But all of them fill tap into that same basic urge as “The Kiss,” and mankind’s fundamental desire to connect with others — and to watch those connections reflected back at us on the silver screen. Titanic (1. 99. 7)Directed by James Cameron“My heart will go on.” “Draw me like one of your French girls.” “Never let go.” “I’m the king of the world!” The dialogue in Titanic became so quoted and re- quoted that the whole movie turned into one big joke. That’s what happens to lines so memorable they become cultural shorthand.
We love something so much we drive it into the ground. Then we hate it . It’s time to recognize why we loved Titanic. It made Leonardo Di.
Caprio and Kate Winslet two of the biggest movie stars in the world, and it married genuine emotions and rich characters to some of the most spectacular special effects in Hollywood history. James Cameron tends to get talked about as a visuals- first filmmaker, but in Titanic he told a love story big enough to dwarf the largest boat in history. Sleepless in Seattle (1. Directed by Nora Ephron. Dated? Full of clich?
But that’s just what makes Sleepless in Seattle one of the quintessential ’9. The Nora Ephron movie knowingly rips from another classic tearjerker, An Affair to Remember, as a forlorn Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in all her wispy bangs greatness find love in a hopeless place. There’s an ambitious cute kid who calls a radio station (a radio station!) on Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve!) to find his grieving dad a new wife. There’s Ryan’s Annie, who writes Hanks’ Sam a letter (a letter!) asking to meet on the top of the Empire State Building on freaking Valentine’s Day.
Could it get any sappier? No, and that’s what makes it an essential love story for the weepy hopeless romantic in all of us. Reality Bites (1. Directed by Ben Stiller.
Usually in movies or stories that feature a love triangle, the audience is quick to pick sides. Team Edward or Team Jacob, etc. The same goes for Ben Stiller’s Gen X dramedy Reality Bites, except that who you side with will change drastically depending on when in your life you watch it. When you watch in your teens or early 2. Troy, the scruffy, unemployed slacker played by Ethan Hawke.
When you watch it in your late- 2. Troy and why can’t she see that the sensible and obvious choice is Michael, the TV exec played by Stiller.
Troy’s a womanizing jerk! Michael is a nice guy with a successful job. As our own Britt Hayes once said, Troy isn’t the guy you settle with, he’s the guy you settle for. Reality Bites is bold enough to present complex characters who aren’t just the girl, the good guy, and the bad guy. Love is messy and complicated and when you’re young you make questionable, if not outright dumb, decisions. Reality bites, right?
A Single Man (2. 00. Directed by Tom Ford.
Leave it to the impeccable eye of a fashion designer to capture the spectrum of colors that reflect the many emotions of love and loss. In Tom Ford’s directorial debut, Colin Firth’s George Falconer is a British professor consumed by grief after the death of his partner Jim (Matthew Goode). Though one could label A Single Man a queer romance, it’s a film that shows the mundanity of a loveless life and the muted grey of heartbreak and loneliness in a way that’s relatable beyond sexuality. What makes Ford’s film so poignant and memorable is how it, and George, find beauty in the finer details – the blue of a young girl’s dress, the red of a woman’s lipstick or the haze of smoke exhaled from a man’s lips. A Single Man reminiscences in what it’s like to fall in love again with the small moments of life even after we may have lost a bigger love.
Up (2. 00. 9)Directed by Pete Docter. No movie love story has provoked more tears in less time than the one in Up. Carl and Ellie Fredricksen meet as children and fall in love. In less than four and a half minutes, director Pete Docter charts the entire arc of their relationship. It’s a storybook romance . And then returns.
Time passes (marked mostly by the changing styles of ties in a brilliant montage within the montage). Dreams are dashed. Love endures. Without a single spoken word, Docter shows the beauty and strength of the bond that exists between a great couple, and how it survives through the hardest of times. Though most of the movie follows Carl without Ellie, that bond is always there, as symbolized by their adorable house, soaring through the sky on a cluster of balloons. Carl’s story takes him around the world, where he encounters exotic animals and gets into sword fights with world- famous explorers.
But his life with Ellie remains his greatest adventure. High Fidelity (2.
Directed by Stephen Frears. A lot of High Fidelity concerns itself with the culture of a vintage record store, and particularly the posturing elitist attitudes of its staff. These dudes make it their business to know everything and like very little. That’s what gives High Fidelity’s love story its oomph, particularly in the film’s best scene, when Championship Vinyl proprietor Rob Gordon (John Cusack) drops the preening and talks directly to the camera, no longer ranking his Top 5 desert island albums or favorite films but the things he misses most about his ex- girlfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle). Standing on a bridge in Chicago, a location that evokes Rob’s transition from single life to true commitment, he talks about Laura’s laugh, smell, and walk. The posturing vanishes. And then this fundamentally immature guy offers Laura one of the most mature proposals in movie history.
And there are never really any surprises. And it never really delivers. And I’m tired of it. And I’m tired of everything else, for that matter. But I never seem to get tired of you.” I never seem to get tired of High Fidelity, and it’s because of speeches like that. The 4. 0- Year- Old Virgin (2. Directed by Judd Apatow.
We tend to remember the raunchier bits — armchair dialogue over who’s the gayest, the box o’ porn, “AHHHHKELLYCLARKSON” — but the feature that launched the Apatow empire earns multiple watches on the merit of its underlying sweetness. Future films would show Judd Apatow’s socially conservative streak to be his Achilles’ heel, but here it manifests as an innocently old- fashioned approach to dating in a culture obsessed with quick- and- easy boot- knocking. Amply proving his own viability as a comic leading man, Steve Carell balances a lonely nerd’s agonizing romantic ineptness with a deep- seated sentimentality.
Endlessly quotable and packed with guest spots from the stars of tomorrow (look, it’s multiple Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill as the weird kid buying the fishbowl high heels!), Apatow’s finest achievement is worth putting on a pedestal. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, I like to imagine Edgar Wright as a mad scientist in a film lab.