In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically." ...

The End Continues," Lesley Stahl met actors Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, who stayed in character as guitarist Nigel ...

Every so often, fiction escapes itself. It resembles everything else on the real-life assembly line – the looks, the feel, the energy. It’s doing more than telling a story; it performs a truth so ...

I consider SPINAL TAP to be one of the great comedies of the 80's. Hell it may be one of the greatest comedies of all time!

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“Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” — 1.5 stars In an early scene from “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” the blisteringly obtuse Nigel Tufnel asks his wife a question after he and his band mates have ...

The new film follows the fictional heavy metal band reuniting for one final gig with cameos from Elton John and Paul McCartney.

When the mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap” and the accompanying debut album were released in 1984, the idea of a band rocking into middle age still felt mildly ridiculous. Lead vocalist David St.

Can Spinal Tap 2 The End Continues possibly live up to the mad genius of the 1984 classic? When it was announced that This Is Spinal Tap, the gold standard of mockumentaries, was getting a follow-up ...

Rob Reiner had a secret weapon on the set of “This Is Spinal Tap.” The dialogue in the mockumentary centered around a fictional British heavy metal band was almost entirely improvised. But before they ...

The ostensibly fictitious hard-rock band Spinal Tap has been together, off and on, slightly longer than Katy Perry has been alive, and as of Friday, has released four studio albums and two feature ...