Groundhog Day

Finally, Someone Made a Time Loop Movie for the Teens

Did you ever wish Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell had been 25 years younger and significantly angstier when they made the classic, beloved movie Groundhog Day? Well, the first trailer for The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is here to serve. Actually, the movie, based on the novel of the same name by The Magicians…

That Place You’ve Been Stuck in Since March? Time to Decorate It With New Art

Under normal circumstances, an online art show is a bit of a letdown. There’s no hustle and bustle of fellow patrons looking at the work. No free wine to drink. No way to see the art up close and personal. Did we mention the wine? However, 2020 has been everything but normal circumstances, which means…

Ron Howard Has a Hopeful Update About Disney+’s Willow Show

Before Justice League Dark, could another mystical DC Comics project be on the way? Chris Miller hypes up the mindblowing art of Into the Spider-Verse 2. Eric Kripke is waiting for the stars to align on Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s potential appearance in The Boys. Plus, what’s to come on Doom Patrol, and how the Witcher…

9 Movies With Characters Who Prove Immortality Can Be a Total Drag

As storytellers are fond of reminding us, living forever usually only sounds awesome until you try it. This list includes only movie characters who were born human and then somehow became immortal—that’s why there aren’t any gods, unless Phil Connors counts—and then realized how long eternity really, truly is. 9) Doctor Parnassus, The Imaginarium of…

Of Course

What if I told you Facebook allowed advertisers to target users who were interested in Nazis? On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported that Facebook’s target advertising system has been identifying users who are interested in Nazis and its related culture in order to provide paying advertisers with an opportunity to reach them directly. Some…

Russian Doll Deftly Navigates Existential Dread and Depression

When you first meet Nadia, the gruff but glamorous heroine of Netflix’s Russian Doll, the off-ness of the strange predicament she’s found herself in is immediately apparent, but difficult to put your finger on, especially if you go into the series unfamiliar with its premise. But as Nadia pulls apart Russian Doll’s mysteries piece by…

A Fan Found An Undiscovered Doctor Strange Easter Egg At The Perfect Time

Stephen Strange and weatherman Phil Connors have more in common than you’d expect. Connors, of course, is the character played by Bill Murray in the film Groundhog Day, named after the holiday which occurs every year on February 2nd. For some mysterious reason, Connors gets trapped in a time loop on February 2nd, an event…

Please Enjoy These Non-Groundhog Rodents

As you’ve probably heard, it’s Groundhog Day, the one day a year where it’s fine for everyone in the country to obsess over a big ol’ rodent. It’s become a running joke here at Earther that I’m a bit rodent-obsessed. In my (totally correct) opinion, there’s nothing cooler than an urban animal, which means rats…

The Groundhog Is Only a Little Worse Than an Almanac at Predicting Weather

Predicting the weather is not easy. Right now, we know a few things: Generally, things are getting warmer. If it’s an El Niño year, weather patterns will differ. But ultimately, the weather is a super-complex physics problem with tons of moving pieces that make totally accurate forecasting difficult and reliant on models and probabilities. Groundhog…

Bill Murray Wept With Joy When He Saw the Groundhog Day Musical for the First Time

Bill Murray knows Groundhog Day. He’s been living it for years. You’d figure that it’d be all glad-handing and cut-ups when the beloved actor saw the musical version of his hit 1993 movie. But, while the jokes did happen, it was the tears that probably took everybody by surprise. A story in today’s New York…

Climate Change Will Kill the Groundhog Day Groundhog

It’s February 2nd, Groundhog Day, which means someone will inevitably tell you the weather in a Pennsylvania town as experienced by a fat rodent. This year, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. The superstition goes if the groundhog sees its shadow, then there’ll be six more weeks of winter, and if not, we’re treated to an…

Watching Every Day in Groundhog Day Play Out at the Same Time Is Maddening

To some, February 2nd is a time to trust the wisdom of a shadow-spotting rodent who makes vague predictions about the severity of winter. To others, it’s an annual excuse to watch Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day, again. But if you’re short on time this year, Neil Fennell has made a shorter half-hour version of the…

Back in the 1800s, Punxsutawney Phil would have been a meal. Back in the day, Gobbler’s Knob was the site of an annual groundhog hunt. You can read all about the history of groundhogs in Pennsylvania at History.com.

Hacked Alarm Clock Only Plays “I Got You Babe” Just Like Groundhog Day 

February 2 is one of the most important non-holidays on the calendar. You don’t get to skip work, but when you get home, you get to watch Bill Murray in Groundhog Day again and again until the clock strikes midnight. And if you want to relive the film every day, Instructables has a fun hack…

Excellent one-minute short film is the grim version of Groundhog Day

Created by Spanish director Aritz Moreno and producer Leire Apellaniz, this 60-second short is the story a man who gets up and prepares some coffee. Or maybe he never gets up. It’s like a dark, condensed version of Groundhog Day without the possibility of ever having a happy ending. Loop won the Filminute Festival of…

10 Questions From Science Fiction That We’re Glad Were Never Answered

We tend to think of science fiction and fantasy as being like mystery novels — the story is over when you solve the case. So we obsess over questions that have no answers. But here are 10 questions that are better unanswered, either because the possibilities are fascinating or because the answers would be terrible.…

RIP Harold Ramis, The Man Who Gave us Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day

Harold Ramis — director and co-writer of Groundhog Day and the brains behind the Ghostbusters operation, died today from complications related to auto-immune inflammatory vasculitis. He was 69. Chicago Tribune reports that the North Shore resident passed away at 12:53 a.m. from the rare disease he had been battling for over four years. We are…

Wake Up at the B&B from Groundhog Day Every Morning for Eternity

Just a day after the real-life Punxsutawney Phil forecast six more weeks of winter, the bed and breakfast where Groundhog Day was filmed hit the market. You could buy it, set an old-fashioned clock radio to go off at 6:00 a.m. playing “I Got You, Babe,” and relive the same day over and over—and over…

There is going to be a Groundhog Day Musical: Please do not suck

This is either the best idea on the planet, or the absolute worst thing ever: The folks behind the Matilda Broadway play are developing a brand new Groundhog Day musical based on the wonderful film. Ned Ryerson solo or bust. THR is reporting that Matilda composer Tim Minchin has actually teamed up with real-life Groundhog…

Groundhog Day: It’s Time to Watch It Again, and Again

It’s never not a good day to watch Groundhog Day, and today is even more not not a good day to watch it. Quite possibly one of the weirdest, most off-beat “holiday movies” out there, Groundhog Day is just begging to become a habit, something to recite sections of. I’m going to assume I don’t…