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In this last instalment of my series, Goodnight Rita, all about Groundhog Day and time loop movies, I return to the original film. I’ve got a list of goofs, fun facts, on-set stories, trivia, etc. and at the end I respond to some of your comments!

We’ve been building to this moment and it took two weeks to edit… But we’re finally here. This is the Spreadsheet Special, an episode of my series Goodnight Rita all about time loop stories in pop culture. In it, I go down my full list and share quick thoughts on every. Single. One. Enjoy!

In this episode of Goodnight Rita we’re talking about festive holiday family movies including 12 Dates of Christmas, Christmas Every Day, Round and Round, and The Last Day of Summer… Most followers won’t need to rush out and see these ones, so I watched them for you! It’s still important to acknowledge the closest imitations…

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese animated series that caused a stir when, at the start of its second season, it aired basically the same episode eight times in a row. The ‘Endless Eight’ saga involves the main characters of the show looping the last two weeks of Summer break thousands of times,…

Slipstream has the unhappy prestige of being the worst of at least 3 different movies with that title. Released in 2005, it stars Sean Astin as a dubious scientist with a device that can wind back up to 10 minutes. Add in some FBI agents, a bank robbery, and a giant CGI plane crash, and…

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.