Tag: Groundhog Day
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‘The Rocketeer’ Takes Flight Across Your Table With a New Board Game
Funko is expanding its game line with the addition of a new board game based on the underrated 1991 Disney gem The Rocketeer. Joining the ranks of other games based on nostalgic films like Groundhog Day and Back to the Future, this addition looks like it will be both a blast from the past and…
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Palm Springs review – amusing time-loop romance is back … again
With Covid having turned all our lives into Groundhog Day, it’s perfect timing for this razor-sharp take on the genreThe Groundhog Day premise is now so familiar that it’s possible to imagine a sci-fi nightmare about someone waking up in a world where every film they watch, new and old, eerily turns out to be…
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New Movies to Watch This Week: ‘Barb and Star,’ ‘Judas and the Black Messiah,’ ‘Minari’ and ‘The Mauritanian’
With the Super Bowl behind us and the Oscars looming (and a pandemic-dampened Valentine’s Day as a marketing peg), American distributors are releasing their most robust slate of new releases in months this weekend.Awards contenders “Judas and the Black Messiah” (about the FBI-sanctioned murder of Fred Hampton) and “Land” (starring and directed by Robin Wright)…
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‘The Map of Tiny Perfect Things’ Review: Yet Another Earnest ‘Groundhog Day’ Rip-Off
Another year, another “Groundhog Day” rip-off. Nearly three decades after Bill Murray got stuck in a time loop until he became a better man, the concept has spawned so many iterations that it basically exists as its own genre, mixed and mashed with other tropes to reanimate a familiar routine. Often, the deja vu of…
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Oscars: Best Live Action Short Film Predictions 2021
The Oscar contenders for live-action short include a range of social issue films, addressing topics from child kidnapping to disability. This year’s shortlist includes a number of big name talents alongside student films, with newcomers competing alongside the likes of Pedro Almodovar. The shortlist includes Spanish auteur’s first English-language film “The Human Voice,” which stars…
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‘Soul,’ ‘Palm Springs’ Top Critics Choice Super Awards
“Palm Springs,” “Soul” and “Da 5 Bloods” were among the top winners at Sunday night’s Critics Choice Super Awards, a curious awards show that was launched during a year in which the kind of movies it exists to celebrate were largely absent from screens.The awards were created by the Critics Choice Association to honor action,…
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‘The world is in a state of turmoil’: why time-loop movies resonate in 2020
From the repetitiveness of lockdown to the grim familiarity of George Floyd’s death, this summer has added dark layers to one of film’s favourite formats‘What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing that you did mattered?” This is what Bill Murray’s character, Phil…
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Palm Springs review – goofy time-loop romcom recycles reckless pleasures
A scrappy final act stops this Groundhog Day-esque Sundance record-breaker from being a showstopper, but there’s plenty of fun to be had on the wayThroughout this confounding and unsettling time, trapped indoors as a deadly pandemic rages, many of us have found ourselves compulsively and eerily gorging on films that confront the practicalities and horrors…
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A ‘Groundhog Day’ TV Series Is The Works, According To Stephen Tobolowsky
With Jason Reitman‘s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” reboot set to reunite the original cast, it seems we’ve entered the timeline full of reboots of iconic comedies made by Harold Ramis and Bill Murray that may get revived soon. That’s right, campers, we could have a “Groundhog Day” TV show in the works, according to Stephen Tobolowsky, who…
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‘Groundhog Day’ TV Series in Development, According to Stephen Tobolowsky
Ok campers, rise and shine: a Groundhog Day TV show is evidently in the works. Actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who played Ned Ryerson in Harold Ramis’s 1993 time loop classic film, revealed in a new interview that a Groundhog Day series is in development. Not only that, but Tobolowsky has agreed to reprise the role of…