That’s as close as the movie, which Samberg coproduced with his partners in The Lonely Island, comes to winking at Groundhog Day, the granddaddy of repeating-day movies. At this point, they’re practically a genre unto themselves. We’ve seen so many in the past decade, in fact, one suspects that they may be the result of a studio exec green-lighting them from within a recursive loop of his or her own. There’s the action-packed Edge of Tomorrow, the dramatic Before I Fall, and the comedic-horror of both Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U. … [Read more...] about Andy Samberg’s ‘Palm Springs’ reinvents the ‘Groundhog Day’ time-loop genre
