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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

8.4 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get...

Mike Portnoy recommended This Is Spinal Tap (1984) in Movies (curated)

"Sadly, this Criterion edition isn’t available anymore on DVD, but back in the nineties this was my quintessential laserdisc (along with the Criterion lasers for Boogie Nights and Taxi Driver). This was the only place you could get a commentary track by Rob Reiner as well as an alternate commentary track with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer out of character. It also contained the original twenty-minute demo reel Spinal Tap: The Final Tour and the band’s first performance on TV five years before making the film. Thank God I still have my laserdisc player!"

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Better Call Saul

7.8 (23 Ratings) Rate It

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He wasn't always Saul Goodman, ace attorney for chemist-turned-meth dealer Walter White. Six years...

A Mighty Wind (2003)

7.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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In this hilarious backstage mockumentary, three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come...

Coneheads (1993)

6.8 (10 Ratings) Rate It

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Cone-headed extraterrestrials Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin) find themselves in New...

Nitin Sawhney recommended This Is Spinal Tap (1984) in Movies (curated)

"I’ve played in heavy rock bands, funk bands, jazz bands, and this film captures the hilarious madness of touring life: the egos of musicians and managers, the pedantry behind getting the right things on riders, the bathos behind big epic concerts… I got lost in a labyrinth of corridors before getting to the stage once, just like Spinal Tap! This remains a tour bus favourite because of the attention to detail, particularly in the actors’ performances. I couldn’t believe it when I realised that Michael McKean from Better Call Saul was the guy who played David St Hubbins. But of course he was. He was always that good."

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Jack (1996)

7.0 (8 Ratings) Rate It

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After an unusually short pregnancy, Karen Powell (Diane Lane) gives birth to a baby boy whose body...

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

6.7 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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The Bradys of the popular '70s sitcom get thrust into the '90s, with a whole new set of problems....

Chris Parnell recommended This Is Spinal Tap (1984) in Movies (curated)

"I guess I’d have to say This Is Spinal Tap. I don’t know that many movies made me laugh as hard as that did — the first few times I saw it, anyway. I haven’t seen it in a while, but I know that at some point I will watch it again and laugh anew at it. That movie is just so brilliant. It captures something from a period in rock and roll that, even though I wasn’t there, it just feels so right. It feels like, “Oh, yeah, this is based on something real.” That time in rock and roll, and these guys are not that far off from real rock and rollers of a certain band. And it’s just brilliant. I mean, it’s just so well done, and just so funny. I mean, they were such an amazing team: Michael McKean, and then Rob Reiner directing, and Christopher Guest. You know, it’s a masterpiece, a comedy masterpiece."

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