Many movie love stories fade out on a cliffhanger, leaving only the credits — and the audience’s imagination — to decide what comes next. But what if those characters’ lives had carried on beyond the ...

Revisiting an old movie — especially a romance — feels like catching up with a dear friend we haven’t seen in years. It transports us back in time, offering a comforting escape to a familiar world.

Hollywood has conditioned audiences to expect two central characters of similar romantic preferences and with great chemistry to fall in love by the end of a film or at some point in a TV series’ run.