This latest poll focuses on A Few Good Men, director Rob Reiner‘s powerful courtroom drama based on the play by Aaron Sorkin (who wrote the screenplay). Tom Cruise shines as cocky Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee, assigned to defend two…
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Who Is Your Favorite Spinal Tap Band Member?
It’s been 35 years since Rob Reiner‘s hugely influential “rockumentary” This Is Spinal Tap was released. The comedy classic chronicles the music-packed misadventures of “England’s loudest band” as they tour America and prepare for the release of their album “Smell…
Read more →“The Princess Bride” Gets a Criterion Collection Special Edition, and More New Releases!
Even though Halloween is tomorrow, this week’s DVD and Blu-ray new releases offer up no tricks, but plenty of treats! Leading things off is a lavish new special edition of one of the best loved films of the 1980s (if…
Read more →“Avengers: Infinity War” Snaps Onto DVD/Blu-ray In This Week’s New Releases!
Like Thanos himself, August isn’t playing around. We are only two weeks into the month and already it has been packed with more new DVD and Blu-ray releases than any other time this year to date. Obviously the biggest new…
Read more →The World According to Spinal Tap
Author’s note: This is Spinal Tap is a pretty raunchy movie. If you are the least bit prudish, I suggest you avoid this movie. In fact, it might be prudent to skip reading this review, as I will be quoting several lines that…
Read more →As You Wish: “The Princess Bride” Turns 30
Ready to feel old? The Princess Bride turns 30 today! Rob Reiner‘s hilarious fairytale fable stars Peter Falk as a kindly grandfather reading the titular story to his grandson (Fred Savage). Follow the quest of a young swashbuckler (Cary Elwes)…
Read more →Great Movie Scenes: Spinal Tap Goes to Stonehenge
“I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.” And so we have one of the most iconic scenes from This Is…
Read more →Stand By Me Turns 30
If you’ve been reading MovieFanFare regularly of late, you’ve probably noticed that there are a lot of unforgettable films celebrating their 30th anniversary this year — the latest of which is Rob Reiner’s sleeper hit, Stand By Me, which chronicled…
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