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This week’s question:

In honor of daylight savings time, what is a movie that makes you feel like spring?

For me, spring means gardening, which also means feeling like I don’t know what I’m doing. So I definitely find comfort in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The second feature film from Aardman Animation, it places our favorite cheese-loving klutz and his competent dog into a Hammer Horror pastiche in hopes to defend their vegetable garden. Unapologetically British and wonderfully entertaining.–Ryan Silberstein, The Red Herring

I really love Spring Forward, a moving little indie from 1999 starring Ned Beatty and Liev Schreiber as park system workers who come to know each other over the course of the seasons. The film is a series of talky episodes that culminate in a quietly powerful ending.–Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer

Palm Springs Weekend isn’t any better or worse than the other late-50s/early-60s party movies in plot or acting or anything, but it takes place in the mid-century modern capital of the world, during the actual mid-century, and for that reason alone it is my favorite spring break (actually Easter weekend here) film. I could watch it all day just for it’s sets. The record store! The hotel pool! Just walking down the street! This stuff is nearly pornographic to me. My only complaint about the 2020 movie Palm Springs is that you don’t see any of Palm Springs. Palm Springs Weekend is a vacation movie that acted as a surrogate vacation for me both times I watched it during quarantine.–Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer

Hirokazu Kore-eda directs Our Little Sister with a light touch, not dwelling on young Suzu (Suzu Hirose) and her adult half-sister’s father’s death, but instead focusing on the relationship that develops after Suzu meets her sisters and goes to live with them. The film is delicate and understated, but when a new friend takes Suzu for an impromptu bike ride through a tunnel of blooming cherry blossoms, the view is truly breathtaking. It’s the perfect cinematic equivalent of that first spring (or nearly-spring) day when everything feels fresh and full of life, just like Suzu’s new start in Kamakura.–Ryan Smillie, Staff Writer

I always watch Where the Boys Are every March because it reminds me of visiting my mom in Florida over my spring breaks from school (boomer Florida is very similar to classic movie Florida, even today). I love that the film opens with a group of girls in a cold, snowy college town because it makes their subsequent scenes in sunny Ft. Lauderdale pop even more. As palm trees line the highway, the viewer gets an immediate sense that winter is OVER. Of course I love all the early-1960s dresses and bikinis modeled by Paula Prentiss and Yvette Mimieux, and the mid-century modern hotel set is truly #patiogoals. Throw in a charming young George Hamilton, some catchy songs sung by Connie Francis, drinks at the Elbow Room, and an underwater mermaid show, and you’ve got my dream cinematic vacation. –Liz Locke, Staff Writer