Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Legendary rockers Spinal Tap embark on their difficult second movie for a difficult second time (following 1994‘s largely forgotten The Return of Spinal Tap). After the unexpected success of the first […]
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I’ve Never Seen…When Harry Met Sally
This 1989 romcom stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as Harry and Sally who, after a chance encounter, seek to remain friends in spite of Harry’s insistence that a (heterosexual) […]
The Princess Bride
From the writer-director-duo behind Misery comes another film about a bedridden character (Fred Savage), like Misery for children (not in a maths sense). Like Annie Wilkes, the boy’s grandfather (Peter […]
The Return of Spinal Tap
Almost a decade on from their infamous North American tour, Spinal Tap are back at the top of their game playing a sellout gig to London’s Royal Albert Hall. The […]
Postcards from the Edge
Meryl Streep stars as Susanne, an actor approaching middle age and recently out of rehab, trying to navigate her way through the turbulent waters of the Hollywood film industry under […]
Misery
Misery turns 25 this year; the perfect flimsy pretext for reviewing this cockadoodie classic. Because it’s Stephen King, the story is about an author, named Paul Sheldon (James Caan). After […]
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street can be summed up in one word: excess. Martin Scorsese seeks to do for the yuppie culture of the 1980s what Brian De Palma did for […]
Rash of Bacon Part 8: A Few Good Men
Rob Reiner of This Is Spinal Tap directs this courtroom drama which focuses on military lawyer Lt Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), as he defends two marines against the charge of […]
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