Category: Video

Source Code, directed by Duncan Jones in 2011, has become a touchstone science fiction time loop movie. But for many it’s a divisive example, mostly to do with the ending. I got a LOT of requests to talk about Source Code, so I expanded my thoughts on the movie to consider how my own personal…

In this episode of Goodnight Rita we discuss, in order: Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, Stargate: SG-1, Supernatural, Eureka, Fringe, Dark Matter, Star Trek: Discovery, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. Each one of them tried their hand at a Groundhog Day-style time loop episode and we’re gonna look at…

In this episode of Goodnight Rita we’re discussing a Spanish-language movie from 2019 called El increíble finde menguante aka. The Incredible Shrinking Wknd. It’s a low budget time loop drama starring Iria del Rio and I absolutely love it. We also use it as a springboard to discuss how narrative devices such as the time…

In this episode of Goodnight Rita we’re discussing Ian Samuels & Lev Grossman’s 2021 time loop rom-com The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021), starring Kyle Allen and Kathryn Newton. It’s a wonderful little movie full of heart, and a pretty solid time loop to boot.

In this episode of Goodnight Rita we’re finally discussing Palm Springs, possibly the best direct successor to Groundhog Day in the time loop redemption romantic comedy world… I discuss it’s origins and development, and share a FASCINATING epiphany I’ve had about it’s similarities to Groundhog Day.

This video is all about the Italian-Spanish Groundhog Day remake, E Gia Ieri (2004). In a list of movies inspired by Groundhog Day, this stands out by being a legitimate remake, based on the same screenplay years later. In the video I summarise the film (so you don’t have to watch it) and point out…

This video is all about 12:01 (1993), a TV-movie directed by Jack Sholder released the very same year as Groundhog Day. Not enough folks know about this, so I wanted to spread a bit of knowledge and share my thoughts on it with you…

This episode bridges the gap into the ‘second half’ of Goodnight Rita where we’ll be talking about other time loop movies in more detail, highlighting what they do well and what they don’t etc. To get us started, we discuss the lasting legacy of Groundhog Day, what came before, and how the media landscape has…

In this episode we explore the visual look of Groundhog Day, a film that might appear at first to be kind of simple… even boring? But therein lies its great success. The argument here is that for Groundhog Day’s story to be effective, its cinematic language must necessarily be simple, even mundane… What do you…

In episode three of the series we dive into each of the principle characters in the movie Groundhog Day, listing what we learn about them and trying to place them in the context of Phil’s journey. Groundhog Day is an unusual film in several ways when it comes to character. It has a relatively small…