Springtime arrives early. (Patreon)

Or late, if you prefer to look at it another way. The Producers has been an on-and-off poll option for years—I found its first four entries (the initial four get added at once) at #76-79, out of just over 3,000 total. Took 40 weeks, but it finally won, garnering a solid 57% of the vote opposite the just-resuscitated (but still comparatively very recent) There's Always Tomorrow. Not having seen this old favorite for more than 20 years, I'm curious to find out whether its hilarity remains undiminished; sometimes, rewatching a comedy to the point of memorization kinda defangs it somehow. (This happened for me with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, for example, which I'd never have imagined giving a rating as low as 79.) Easy to find if it's been a while for you as well. 

As those of you who regularly check my site log know, I'm in my final pre-Skandies cramming phase: taking a second look at some of last year's most acclaimed films, juuust to make sure. Aftersun has been the only true revelation thus far (I did just bump TÁR from 68 to 79, and from #5 to #2 on my '22 list, but I've kinda known all along that was likely to happen; will explain soon), with a couple or three still to go. Normal viewing habits will resume by this weekend, and the annual Skandies countdown will kick off here on Monday. (I'll provide an explanation then for those unfamiliar. You can also just totally ignore it. Just a fun year-end survey I've conducted with friends/peers since 1995.)