Best Of: Rob Reiner On 'Spinal Tap II' / Billy Strings : Fresh Air

Rob Reiner On Spinal Tap's Return; Community Supported Agriculture In NYC; Full Bio: James Baldwin; New Musical 'Saturday Church'

Loading... Forty years ago, Spinal Tap first dialed it up to 11 in a genre-defining mockumentary. A lot has happened since then, but the band is back together for one show only. Director Rob Reiner joins us to discuss "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues." Community Supported Agriculture, or a CSA, is a unique way to up your produce game at home. You can buy a direct share of a local farm's production, and receive fresh fruit and vegetables weekly.…

Spinal Tap’s Lost 1991 Interview: On Legacy, Reunion and Covering ‘Tom’s Diner’: ‘You Know That Quote, ‘He Doesn’t Sing to Another Drummer’? We Don’t’

As a music journalist of a certain age, people often ask about my all-time favorite interview. And there’s no question what it is: the three-decade-old Spinal Tap interview that follows below. We’re going to assume that anyone clicking on this article knows that “This Is Spinal Tap” is the greatest rock ‘n’ roll film of all time, that its long-awaited sequel “The End Continues” was just released Friday, and, in a telling statement of the group…

Best Of: Rob Reiner On 'Spinal Tap II' / Billy Strings : Fresh Air

Rob Reiner talks with Terry Gross about directing the new sequel to Spinal Tap, the mockumentary about a heavy metal band.  He’ll  also talk about his remarkable life and career, like directing When Harry Met Sally and starring in All in the Family. Also, singer songwriter and guitarist Billy Strings is one of the rare bluegrass musicians who can fill arenas with tens of thousands of fans. He’s been working to get to where he is for a long time.…

Was ‘Spinal Tap 2’ a good idea?

SOME OF the cast of “Spinal Tap 2.”   By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainent Writer 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 bandmates have reunited after many years: “I don’t know whether this was a good idea or not.” Fans may ask that very same question after an albeit mercifully short sequel hits theaters Friday from the mother of all rock mockumentaries…

Rock comedy Spinal Tap’s recent second part will not come to Finnish cinemas – The Observatorial

Movies|The film’s premiere of Finnkino Theaters in the fall’s autumn program is not the film. The abstract is made by artificial intelligence and checked by man. Rock-comedia Spinal Tap’s sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues has premiered worldwide. The movie is not seen in Finland as in one cinema, Riviera Kallio, Helsinki. The sequel […]

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is the rare legacy comedy sequel that is subtle, organic, and worth the wait

Legacy horror film sequels, which have come back in droves since the pandemic, are the easiest genre to point to right now if you want to explain how goddamned difficult it is for Hollywood to recreate lightning in a bottle. Aside from Final Destination: Bloodlines, the 2020s have proven to be a dumping ground for the only thing worse than sequelitis—returning to the same old well and bringing along characters that have no reason to still be dra…