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1 week ago | thespool.net | Tim Stevens

Vacations are hard. You look forward to them for months. Then, once you are vacay, it turns out you’re still you and your spouse and your friends are still themselves. Thus, you are all still just as capable of delighting and infuriating each other as you were at home. As it turns out in , that holds true even when you are in your 50s and well off enough to take four vacations a year without even glancing at price tags. Let’s start with that.

2 weeks ago | thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Paul Feig

There’s a scene in that finds Bill Murray’s time-looped weatherman, Phil Connors, attempting to recreate an evening with Producer Rita Hanson (Andie MacDowell). In the previous reliving, the night had been almost perfect. The only thing that derailed it was whatever mystical force that keeps resetting Phil’s existence. However, in attempting to do it all over again, he fumbles at every turn.

2 weeks ago | thespool.net | Clint Worthington |Sarah Gorr

The start of summer also marks the beginning of mid-year festival season, especially in Chicagoland. MUBI Fest Chicago and Ebertfest just concluded this weekend, and the Chicago Critics Film Festival is set to kick off in May with a selection of curated films from recent festivals, courtesy of the members of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

2 weeks ago | thespool.net | Sarah Gorr

Elder millennials have come to accept the return of millennial fashion. Welllllll, maybe not the low-rise jeans. But are they ready to accept the return of the king and queen of makeover TV? Amazon Prime is betting on it. That’s why What Not to Wear’s Stacy London and Clinton Kelly are back with Wear Whatever the F You Want . In case it wasn’t obvious, the show throws out the old rule book that guided What Not to Wear and corrects the errors of their 2000s ways.

2 weeks ago | thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Daniel Minahan

It’s the early 1950s. Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Lee (Will Poulter) live together, unmarried, in her late mother’s rural home. He’s waiting for her to accept his marriage proposal. She’s delaying an answer but running out of time. One morning, Julius (Jacob Elordi), Lee’s younger, less reliable brother shows up. The chemistry is immediate as he reclines on the family car, shirtless despite the Midwest winter, sharing a secret smoke with Muriel.