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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues trailer takes it beyond 11

July 25, 2025 by Gary Collinson

Four decades after rocking the world with This Is Spinal Tap, director Rob Reiner reunites with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the long-awaited follow-up to the iconic rock mockumentary which sees Spinal Tap reuniting for a farewell gig, complete with support from the likes of Paul […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Christopher Guest, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Paul McCarney, Questlove, Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, This is Spinal Tap

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues first-look images tease the final concert

July 23, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

Bleecker Street has officially unveiled three images for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Rob Reiner’s long-awaited sequel to the 1984 cult classic mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, which offers a first look at bandmates David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) as they reunite for one final […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap II, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, This is Spinal Tap

Blu-ray Review – For Your Consideration (2006)

December 30, 2024 by Brad Cook

For Your Consideration, 2006. Directed by Christopher Guest. Starring Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, and Fred Willard. SYNOPSIS: Christopher Guest’s hilarious Hollywood send-up For Your Consideration, which does to Tinseltown what This is Spinal Tap did to heavy metal […]

Filed Under: Brad Cook, Movies, Physical Media, Reviews Tagged With: Bob Balaban, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, For Your Consideration, Fred Willard, Harry Shearer, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, Parker Posey

Production begins on cameo-laden This is Spinal Tap sequel

March 11, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

Get ready to turn those amplifiers up to eleven once more because Spinal Tap are set for a comeback tour in the form of a sequel to the 1984 cult classic, This is Spinal Tap.  According to Deadline the forty-years in the making follow-up has already begun production in New Orleans, with Rob Reiner returning […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap II, This is Spinal Tap

Blu-ray Review – My Stepmother Is An Alien (1988)

December 14, 2021 by admin

My Stepmother Is An Alien, 1988. Directed by Richard Benjamin. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Seth Green, Alyson Hannigan, Harry Shearer, and Juliette Lewis. SYNOPSIS: A scientist sends a signal out into space and gets a visit from an alien looking to learn more about Earth, and they fall in love. In another […]

Filed Under: Chris Ward, Movies, Physical Media, Reviews Tagged With: Alyson Hannigan, Dan Aykroyd, Harry Shearer, Jon Lovitz, Juliette Lewis, Kim Basinger, My Stepmother is an Alien, Seth Green

Spinal Tap turn it up to II with sequel to cult classic

May 16, 2022 by Gary Collinson

The band is getting back together, as Rob Reiner has announced that filmmaker Marty DiBergi is set to catch up with David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel of the legendary rock band Spinal Tap for a sequel to 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. Spinal Tap II is being produced through Reiner’s newly-relaunched Castle […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Spinal Tap II, This is Spinal Tap

How Can A Successful Film End Up Losing Money?

October 23, 2016 by Neil Calloway

This week Neil Calloway looks at Hollywood Accounting… Earlier this week it was revealed that Harry Shearer  is suing Vivendi for his share of the profits from This Is Spinal Tap. Shearer – probably best known now for providing the voices for Mr Burns, Principal Skinner, Reverend Lovejoy and others on The Simpsons – played […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Neil Calloway Tagged With: Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Shearer, Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, This is Spinal Tap

Harry Shearer joins cast of Bastards

October 21, 2015 by William Fanelli

The Owen Wilson and Ed Helms vehicle Bastards, set to hit theaters in 2016, clearly has the cast that just keeps on growing. The Simpsons legendary voice-master Harry Shearer, who has voiced just shy of two-dozen characters on the longest-running American sitcom, is the latest to come aboard. Bastards follows twin brothers Wilson and Helms […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, William Fanelli Tagged With: Bastards, Ed Helms, Glenn Close, Harry Shearer, J.K. Simmons, Katie Aselton, Owen Wilson, Ving Rhames

Harry Shearer leaves The Simpsons

May 14, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Last week it was announced that The Simpsons has been renewed by Fox for a twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth season, but the animated series will be missing one of its most prominent voice actors, with Harry Shearer revealing that he’s left the long-running animated sitcom. Shearer, who voices a host of characters including the likes of […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Harry Shearer, The Simpsons

Harry Shearer to return to The Simpsons

July 7, 2015 by Justin Cook

Two months after announcing that he was leaving The Simpsons, Entertainment Weekly reports that actor Harry Shearer will officially be rejoining the cast of the long-running FOX comedy. Shearer, the voice of many of the show’s most popular characters, including Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Seymour Skinner, Smithers and Kent Brockman, originally left because he felt […]

Filed Under: Justin Cook, News, Television Tagged With: Harry Shearer, The Simpsons

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