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 […]
Production begins on cameo-laden This is Spinal Tap sequel
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 […]
Spinal Tap turn it up to II with sequel to cult classic
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 […]
Blu-ray Review – My Stepmother Is An Alien (1988)
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 […]
Blu-ray Review – Father Figures (2017)
Father Figures, 2017. Directed by Lawrence Sher. Starring Ed Helms, Owen Wilson, Glenn Close, J.K. Simmons, Harry Shearer, and Ving Rhames. SYNOPSIS: Peter (Ed Helms) and Kyle (Owen Wilson) are polar opposite twin brothers; the former is a physicist who specialises in the colon, the other a lucky lay about who got rich from being […]
How Can A Successful Film End Up Losing Money?
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 […]
Harry Shearer joins cast of Bastards
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 […]
Harry Shearer to return to The Simpsons
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 […]
Harry Shearer leaves The Simpsons
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 […]
