Films

9.3Skry

Casablanca

1943

A gin-soaked nightclub in Vichy-controlled Morocco, December 1941: Rick Blaine runs his establishment on studied neutrality, refusing favors and avoiding politics until the arrival of Ilsa Lund forces a reckoning with a past he's built his whole pose against. Michael Curtiz constructs the film as a wartime romance triangulated against ideology — Ilsa's husband is a Czech resistance leader whose exit papers Rick happens to hold — so that a love story becomes a question about what a person owes history when history comes looking. Bogart and Bergman carry the emotional weight, while Claude Rains, as a cheerfully corrupt French prefect, holds the moral ironies in place.

8.7Skry

Groundhog Day

1993

A TV weatherman with a gift for condescension gets sent to cover Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and finds himself locked in a loop, waking every morning to the same six o'clock alarm and the same Sonny and Cher. Harold Ramis builds the film as a comedy whose engine is repetition — the same beats hit with incremental variation, Murray's reactions shifting from bafflement to hedonism to something more searching as the days accumulate into an uncountable span. What keeps it from becoming a stunt is that the loop is never explained or resolved on mechanical terms; the film treats the premise as a given and lets character carry the weight.

Sense and Sensibility

2026