Tag Archives: Rob Reiner

Couch Potato Pickings | The Bucket List: what’s on yours?

Posted on 22 April 2009 by Beth Williams

On Sky Movies Premiere tonight at 8pm In this entertaining comedy, Jack Nicholson (happy birthday Jack – 72 today!) and Morgan Freeman play two terminally ill men – one a mechanic, the other a billionaire – who bond while sharing … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Anvil! The Story of Anvil – Heavy metal doc is a real-life Spinal Tap!

Posted on 20 February 2009 by Jason Best

  ‘Is this another Spinal Tap?’ I scribbled in my notebook when this documentary about the middle-aged members of a failed Canadian heavy metal band got underway. Before seeing this movie last year, I’d never heard of Anvil, so-called ‘demigods … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings – This is Spinal Tap

Posted on 28 August 2008 by Beth Williams

On ITV1 tonight at 1.40am Am I alone in finding this antisocial time slot an insult to this brilliant movie? A side-splitting spoof of an English heavy rock band on tour in America, it’s one of the funniest movies ever … Continue reading →

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